Weekends in Los Angeles

Hello all! I have had a wonderful weekend! On Friday, work was pretty slow. There were 4 interns, so we didn't have a lot to do. I read scripts and helped Viruna enter some data. I really like doing that for some reason. She mentioned needing an assistant and I jumped at the opportunity to put my name in. Unfortunately, there's no budget for her to have one, but she's going to keep my resume around incase something comes up. That's pretty great! I was glad that I said something.

Saturday was another great day! We slept in. I was so tired! And then we went to Venice Beach. All four of us roommates went. It's one of the first times we've all hung out together. Plus they were doing some kind of Eco-Festival, so there were a bunch of booths and stuff to look at. It was a lot of fun!

Is it high GAS PRICES that are keeping these cops out of cars?

ATTACK of the Birds!

Saturday night we went to Trader Joes which is the best store ever. I bought a reusable bag and was entered in a drawing to win $10! Yay being earth friendly! After that Lindsey, Luke, and I worked on our scripts for our rewrite class.

Sunday was probably the coolest day of my whole life. Lindsey volunteered us to help with a fundraiser for Jeanne Shaheen hosted by the The League of Hollywood Women Writers. It was held at Marti Noxon's house. This is a link to her on IMDB, but she's a writer/producer for shows like Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When we were driving up I'm pretty sure we saw Rebecca Romijn driving her car.

Basically what we did was check people in as they came to the event. We met a lot of writers and a very cool actress, Justine Bateman:

We also got to eat some delicious food. It was all finger sandwiches and little cookies, but it was AMAZING. There were salmon things and curry things.... just very good things in general. We got to mingle a little, but not a lot. The coolest part, however, was when Lindsey's boss Thania St. John let us listen in on the ending meeting with the executive board. Everyone had great things to say and really smart ideas. I was glad that I didn't have to come up with anything intelligent to say. At the very end of the meeting, Thania introduced Lindsey and I to the group. They all applauded us in thanks for helping them. Seriously, we should have been applauding them. They were so nice and considerate. I'd love to be a part of their group someday!

Here are some pictures from the area we were in:

Captial Records:

The Academy:

The Hollywood Sign:

Saturday night we went to see Wall-E. It's WONDERFUL! Go see it as soon as you can. It was by far the best movie I've seen in the last 6 months. Very happy and wonderful! Then it was back to sleep. I was exhausted again!

Today I've spent my time getting caught up on e-mails and swimming. Matt and I swam laps for about an hour and a half. It's really nice weather and the pool makes it better!

I hope that's all that I wanted to report. There's a lot going on!