i'd be alright if i never had to deliver mail again.
friday was alright, i covered kevin barkey's desk for a little while in the afternoon. answered some phone calls, nothing too exciting. snoop didn't call.
today i've done a whole lot of delivering mail and packages and not much else. seems like a waste of a day, i can't wait to go home. hopefully tomorrow there will be some sweet projects to work on.
i worked a lot over the weekend at Lucky. my feet were sore and still are, it will be alright when i'm done working there. i like most of the people, but it's just tedious and long. i got a new shirt. the discount is a perk.
i'm starting to get a tan. i can judge by where my bracelets are that i never take off. hoorah.
take care
peace&love
amanda p.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Assisting the Assistant
Today i am assisting Julie Yorn's assistant Aaron Criswell. He's ordering me lunch right now. I was fasting today but you can't turn it down when someone offers to order you lunch. Maybe tomorrow. I'm calling people, answering calls, and filing things. Seeing how the film side works over here. it's alright, and i'm trying to still do stuff for the ballet while i'm chilling over here. i've signed up for a few new websites for them and i'll post the links when they are finished. they probably won't be finished until the cd is completely done though. which hopefully is soon! very soon. i'm taking wednesdays off from now on so i have a day to get stuff done since i work on the weekends now. work on that tan!! i'm trying anyway. haha. some of the interns are all going out to california pizza kitchen after work (so fasting today just wasn't an option). it'll be nice to get together with them outside of the office. well that's about it for now..
peace out
amanda p.
peace out
amanda p.
Monday, June 18, 2007
occupation: receptionist.
last week was rather slow as far as projects here at the firm. so, i've decided to take on my role as the ballet's manager again and turn my down time here into productive time for them. i'm getting quotes on merchandise, helping with shows and trying to get ahold of radio stations in the cities they are going to on tour. padraig, if you are reading this, you better have signed up for ASCAP already.
www.myspace.com/theballet
i got a job at Lucky Brand on the 3rd street prominade in santa monica. we get a 60% discount, so i'm going to be buying a bunch of new clothes. i worked on saturday from 2-11 during a huge sale, so it was pretty exhausting. good experience though, i've never worked in retail.
my old friend steffen called me monday evening to let me know he was in LA. Then he called me later saying that the place he was supposed to stay was really bad so he stayed on my couch. He looked for places tuesday and wednesday but ended up staying over again both nights. apparantly he found a cool place though.
my roommates both were gone for the weekend. i was too tired to do anything saturday night after working but sunday i worked 2-6 then met up with Ashley and we went to the beach for the weekly drum circle! i made some friends this time, one of their names was pete, and he gave me a bracelet. we are beach buddies now. israil got to the beach right as we were leaving but i got my camera! too bad it already missed a lot of good stuff, like our first day/week and trips here. hopefully there will be more good stuff to come.
stephanie, one of the receptionists has been gone so i've been filling in her position at the front desk with john. it's pretty easy, but unfortunately i'm not doing a whole lot. eric got to cover one of the assistants desks on friday. the thing is, i don't want to be someones assistant. i guess its ok for now, i'm learning some things but it's just proving the fact that i don't want to work for a big corporation.
last week i did start on a project, (Alyssa, another intern was working on it but didnt know one of the songs and i was singing it when i walking by so she recruited my help!) we had to replace a few songs for a zombie movie to songs from our artists so it wasn't so expensive. i was pretty good at that project.
i'm not on my computer right now but i swear i'll put up pictures soon.
peace
amandap.
www.myspace.com/theballet
i got a job at Lucky Brand on the 3rd street prominade in santa monica. we get a 60% discount, so i'm going to be buying a bunch of new clothes. i worked on saturday from 2-11 during a huge sale, so it was pretty exhausting. good experience though, i've never worked in retail.
my old friend steffen called me monday evening to let me know he was in LA. Then he called me later saying that the place he was supposed to stay was really bad so he stayed on my couch. He looked for places tuesday and wednesday but ended up staying over again both nights. apparantly he found a cool place though.
my roommates both were gone for the weekend. i was too tired to do anything saturday night after working but sunday i worked 2-6 then met up with Ashley and we went to the beach for the weekly drum circle! i made some friends this time, one of their names was pete, and he gave me a bracelet. we are beach buddies now. israil got to the beach right as we were leaving but i got my camera! too bad it already missed a lot of good stuff, like our first day/week and trips here. hopefully there will be more good stuff to come.
stephanie, one of the receptionists has been gone so i've been filling in her position at the front desk with john. it's pretty easy, but unfortunately i'm not doing a whole lot. eric got to cover one of the assistants desks on friday. the thing is, i don't want to be someones assistant. i guess its ok for now, i'm learning some things but it's just proving the fact that i don't want to work for a big corporation.
last week i did start on a project, (Alyssa, another intern was working on it but didnt know one of the songs and i was singing it when i walking by so she recruited my help!) we had to replace a few songs for a zombie movie to songs from our artists so it wasn't so expensive. i was pretty good at that project.
i'm not on my computer right now but i swear i'll put up pictures soon.
peace
amandap.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Week Two Begins
i'm at work right now, getting ready to start up again on the same project ive been working on for a few days. i have to call and get the chief of marketing or president or whoever i can and talk to them about marketing an artist managed by the firm. i have to get their info and give it to the assistant and then the manager will call them. so, it's pretty ongoing.
on friday of last week i had an interesting encounter with Snoop Dogg. I heard he was in so i went for a sweep (to get everyones outgoing mail). i was flagged down outside of his managers office and had to run to the pizza place next door and bring back some orange sodas. then later i was walking by again and stopped for a second to look at snoop's posters and skate deck, and i talked to one of the assistants behind the desk. snoop saw me looking at his stuff from the office he was sitting in and was like 'hey! what are you doin?' i instantly put down the skate deck i had turned over to see the artwork on the bottom and put my hands up. but it was cool, he said some other stuff and i must have turned bright red. everyone around was laughing and he said to me, 'aw i was just messin with ya.' i laughed and continued walking. i was a bit flustered after that so i went outside to call glen! the rest of the day was pretty normal, and i left a little early to go job searching.
on friday afternoon i chilled with mike, one of the record label interns at the firm. we just went to the beach and hung out for awhile. it was cool. we met Rasta Pete (i think it was pete). he showed us his artwork and gave us some insight. good times.
friday night i was chilling with Mo (maureen) my roommate. we heard what sounded like helicopters right above our place, so we went outside to check it out. there were like 10 of them! we instantly turned on the news and i had guessed it, it was a high speed chase. apparantly it went on for about 2 hours! we found out that it was only blocks away from our place. not a very exciting ending though, he just got out of the truck and laid on the ground.
saturday night my roommates Dan (danielle) and Mo went mini golfing at some castle arcade place. it was a lot of fun, i got to play some DDR and Mo won a TON of tickets. pictures later.
I went to hollywood blvd. yesterday and walked down the 'walk of fame'. i have a few pictures to show you but i'm not at home so i'll add them later.
last night ashley and i went to the drum circle on venice beach. it was a lot of fun, we brought a beach towel to sit on and chill and then eventually got up to dance. its going to be our 'weekly date'. (as long as i dont have to work).
i think i pretty much got a job at a Lucky Brand store on the 3rd street promenade in santa monica (aka, near the beach!). i just have to go in there tonight after work to talk to the store manager.
like i said, i'll post pictures later
until then,
PEACE
amanda p.
on friday of last week i had an interesting encounter with Snoop Dogg. I heard he was in so i went for a sweep (to get everyones outgoing mail). i was flagged down outside of his managers office and had to run to the pizza place next door and bring back some orange sodas. then later i was walking by again and stopped for a second to look at snoop's posters and skate deck, and i talked to one of the assistants behind the desk. snoop saw me looking at his stuff from the office he was sitting in and was like 'hey! what are you doin?' i instantly put down the skate deck i had turned over to see the artwork on the bottom and put my hands up. but it was cool, he said some other stuff and i must have turned bright red. everyone around was laughing and he said to me, 'aw i was just messin with ya.' i laughed and continued walking. i was a bit flustered after that so i went outside to call glen! the rest of the day was pretty normal, and i left a little early to go job searching.
on friday afternoon i chilled with mike, one of the record label interns at the firm. we just went to the beach and hung out for awhile. it was cool. we met Rasta Pete (i think it was pete). he showed us his artwork and gave us some insight. good times.
friday night i was chilling with Mo (maureen) my roommate. we heard what sounded like helicopters right above our place, so we went outside to check it out. there were like 10 of them! we instantly turned on the news and i had guessed it, it was a high speed chase. apparantly it went on for about 2 hours! we found out that it was only blocks away from our place. not a very exciting ending though, he just got out of the truck and laid on the ground.
saturday night my roommates Dan (danielle) and Mo went mini golfing at some castle arcade place. it was a lot of fun, i got to play some DDR and Mo won a TON of tickets. pictures later.
I went to hollywood blvd. yesterday and walked down the 'walk of fame'. i have a few pictures to show you but i'm not at home so i'll add them later.
last night ashley and i went to the drum circle on venice beach. it was a lot of fun, we brought a beach towel to sit on and chill and then eventually got up to dance. its going to be our 'weekly date'. (as long as i dont have to work).
i think i pretty much got a job at a Lucky Brand store on the 3rd street promenade in santa monica (aka, near the beach!). i just have to go in there tonight after work to talk to the store manager.
like i said, i'll post pictures later
until then,
PEACE
amanda p.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Days One and Two at The Firm!
LA has been great so far! it's pretty gloomy today, but it's been pretty nice otherwise.
brian and i looked fabulous on the first day! very professional. we fit right in with everyone when we got there. i picked him up at about 8:30 and we got there at 9. there were 6 of us starting that day, one had been there a week, and the other about 3 weeks. one more girl started today. (there are a lot of us!) there are also 2 interns with the firm's label. everyone is pretty cool. it's pretty laid back dresscode wise, so most of us were in jeans today.
we toured the building (aka the 5th and 6th floors) most of the first morning. then we were given tasks that were pretty tedious but okay. we went out to sharkey's for lunch (mexican) with a few other interns. it was a lot of fun. when we got back to the firm we went back to what we were doing (i'm not really allowed to tell you exactly what it was). then chad, one of our supervisors came up to brian and i and another intern and said JK (the CEO) had a project for an intern. we were all willing, so we did rock-paper-scissors. brian won, but when he came back with the project i helped him out.
the project was finding a lester hayes (former raider) autographed football, helmet, jersey, or something to get as a present asap. we were told to look locally, and we were calling places but it proved to be rather difficult. apparantly lester hayes wasn't that popular.
we found an autographed print but there wasnt a picture, so JK's assistants told us to have them get us a pic. i had them send it to my email and then i forwarded it to them this morning.
i guess it wasnt exactly what they were looking for. we went back to the task, this time they said as long as they could have it shipped next day we could get it from anywhere. we ended up finding a jersey in Wisconsin, but we needed to get it approved by the assistants and ordered very quickly, because it was nearly 3:00 in wisconsin, the cutoff time. the credit card number they gave us first didnt work because they didnt accept american express. one of the assistants had to call someone to get another card. at this point we had about 15 minutes to get it. she finally got the number though and brian and i got it ordered in time. phew! project completed.
we got another project this afternoon. we had to take autographed CD inserts for Kelly Clarkson singles and put them in all the cases to be shipped out. Brian was rather excited about the fact that Kelly had touched every one of those papers we put in the cases. we did other things too, like take mail from peoples outboxes and deliver it to the mail room, and one of the other interns and i delivered scripts from the copy room to the people who had requested them. there was some time where it was boring but it was not bad. oh, we also cleaned a bunch of desks over by the mail room, our home base. there's a sign up that says "assorted interns". haha. apparantly we are like ice cream flavors. oh well.
i might get to meet kelly clarkson tomorrow. and/or mandy moore. maybe. woot! so thats about all for now.
you can also visit my other blog at www.xanga.com/amandasbigadventure.
peace and love,
amanda p.
brian and i looked fabulous on the first day! very professional. we fit right in with everyone when we got there. i picked him up at about 8:30 and we got there at 9. there were 6 of us starting that day, one had been there a week, and the other about 3 weeks. one more girl started today. (there are a lot of us!) there are also 2 interns with the firm's label. everyone is pretty cool. it's pretty laid back dresscode wise, so most of us were in jeans today.
we toured the building (aka the 5th and 6th floors) most of the first morning. then we were given tasks that were pretty tedious but okay. we went out to sharkey's for lunch (mexican) with a few other interns. it was a lot of fun. when we got back to the firm we went back to what we were doing (i'm not really allowed to tell you exactly what it was). then chad, one of our supervisors came up to brian and i and another intern and said JK (the CEO) had a project for an intern. we were all willing, so we did rock-paper-scissors. brian won, but when he came back with the project i helped him out.
the project was finding a lester hayes (former raider) autographed football, helmet, jersey, or something to get as a present asap. we were told to look locally, and we were calling places but it proved to be rather difficult. apparantly lester hayes wasn't that popular.
we found an autographed print but there wasnt a picture, so JK's assistants told us to have them get us a pic. i had them send it to my email and then i forwarded it to them this morning.
i guess it wasnt exactly what they were looking for. we went back to the task, this time they said as long as they could have it shipped next day we could get it from anywhere. we ended up finding a jersey in Wisconsin, but we needed to get it approved by the assistants and ordered very quickly, because it was nearly 3:00 in wisconsin, the cutoff time. the credit card number they gave us first didnt work because they didnt accept american express. one of the assistants had to call someone to get another card. at this point we had about 15 minutes to get it. she finally got the number though and brian and i got it ordered in time. phew! project completed.
we got another project this afternoon. we had to take autographed CD inserts for Kelly Clarkson singles and put them in all the cases to be shipped out. Brian was rather excited about the fact that Kelly had touched every one of those papers we put in the cases. we did other things too, like take mail from peoples outboxes and deliver it to the mail room, and one of the other interns and i delivered scripts from the copy room to the people who had requested them. there was some time where it was boring but it was not bad. oh, we also cleaned a bunch of desks over by the mail room, our home base. there's a sign up that says "assorted interns". haha. apparantly we are like ice cream flavors. oh well.
i might get to meet kelly clarkson tomorrow. and/or mandy moore. maybe. woot! so thats about all for now.
you can also visit my other blog at www.xanga.com/amandasbigadventure.
peace and love,
amanda p.
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