THE FREAKING ZOO

Los Angeles. 

time has almost come to an end here in LA!! And there is still so much to do and see before I leave. Keeping it consistent, here is the list of things done: 

- music industry class

- Tad, the lost explorer (pretty funny, but not that great for me)

- started packing to go home (sad day)

- class pitches (s/o to Gareth for maybe the best one there)

- grammy museum (mini sidebar #1)

- CREAM (mini sidebar #2)

- The Devil's Backbone @ LACMA (pretty good, super cool museum!!)

- San Diego Zoo (holy cow, sidebar #1)

- Cincinnati Reds vs San Diego Padres game (sidebar #2)

- The Griddle (sidebar #3)

mini sidebar #1: Grammy Museum was so so amazing with my interest in music being wayy up there. Definitely was happy we went there. 

mini sidebar #2: holy cow this ice-cream place called CREAM was so delicious and definitely worth the waiting in traffic to get my ice cream taco

sidebar #1: i've been wanting to go to the zoo for a longgg time now.. and lucky me Ryan took me to the biggest one in the US and holy cow was it big. we didn't even see the whole park!! but what we did see was so much fun and i even got a lil baby panda, some wine, and a shot glass for my dad for the mems (and plenty of pictures, of course)

sidebar #2: after the zoo, we went to the Cincinnati Reds (his favorite baseball team) game against the San Diego Padres. I got to rock a Reds jersey and a lot of people give me weird looks, but also got some Reds fans saying "go reds!!" at me haha very fun game to end a very fun day (even though the Reds lost in an extra inning)

sidebar #3: this place is top brunch. if you haven't been, i would. but a tiny suggestion would be, if you order the pancakes... maybe share them with someone else because the portions are huge and there are three of them. impossible to not take home leftovers! and is also worth the wait in line to get inside. 

baseball finds

Internship.

i'm writing this as I"m waiting to get the ok to leave work and pick up some dosh for our producer from Beverly Hills. Apparently the check has not been signed yet. 

So i'll write about last week: Our guest speaker, and the last one for the week, Rob Lorenz. He was the producer on a majority of Clint Eastwood's movies and was the second unit director on American Sniper - a movie my company produced. He also was the director on Trouble With The Curve - a movie that was partly filmed at my high school!! I talked to him about that, and it was funny because he said that he found my high school on a GPS just looking for anything that resembled a diamond. He said he loved the field because it had all the trees in the back and was NOT surrounded by fencing like most fields are. 

Overall, it was really great hearing from Rob and he had a lot of advice to offer. At the end, he even said that if we ever wanted to volunteer, that we could reach out to him and he would gladly help us out in getting some experience. Which is always nice to hear from a speaker.