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.

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peace and love,
amanda p.