It's almost 2 am and I'm wide awake thanks to the time change so I thought, why not start doing something that other people have been doing for years? I meant blogging, ya nasties. Get your heads out of the gutter.
Alright, I don't really read these thingies when other people do them so I'm just gonna start rambling about this past semester. Hope that's okay. Disclaimer: If you're super into punctuation/grammar, are not okay with me swearing all the time, and/or don't understand pop culture references, then you might want to stop reading now
OR kindly remove the stick from your ass, watch some TV and continue reading
. :) Glad that's out of the way.
K. So. I just finished my last semester of college in LA in what might have been the quickest and most entertaining semester ever. The semester started out okay. It was kind of like freshman year all over again: moving in to a completely unknown place, meeting awkward ass kids, befriending and subsequently unfriending the weirdos, lowering expectations about shit, etc.
I knew one of my roommates going into this thingy, Katrina, and we lucked out with our other two roommies Erica and Isis. We quickly realized that we all had similar interests such as: eating EVERYTHING (but especially bacon and nutella), watching copious amounts of television, shit talking, drinking, Harry Potter, #hashtagging, stealing shit (soooo much shit), etc. The list can go on for days but y'all don't care. Or maybe you do. I mean, let's be honest my roommies and Po are the only ones reading this shit. That brings me to Paola, our fifth honorary roommate. She basically lived in our apt also and went by her black name, Po because even she couldn't pronounce her name when she was drunk. Then there's Matt, he does crossfit and shit. He also brings old/weird ass vocab into the group like: jonesing, jankity and he's a black woman at heart. But he mostly crossfits. The six of us made up "The Goon Squad." Together we did all kinds of crazy awesome shit that I may or may not forget to talk about later.
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| Diane is the cone and one of the first things we stole |
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Goon Squad minus Trina
Katrina |
Now that you know I have friends, I can talk about work. I interned at three companies: Trigger Street Productions, Merrill Entertainment and Branman/Brander Casting. I met many a celebrity at Branman/Brander and they let me go with them to my first ever legit table read for a new TBS show pilot Do It Yourself. The ladies at B/B were hilarious and awesome. At Trigger Street, I did a lot of coverage (ain't nobody got time to explain what this is to you non-film/tv folk. google it) and played with the VP's dog, Kenny. These guys also let me be a production assistant on a film competition and I met some cool people #networking #addmeonlinkedin. My last internship was at Merrill Entertainment working with an independent producer. He gave me a lot of creative freedom and let me redevelop ideas. Basically, I got to shit on all the terrible scripts he made me read and make them better. Pretty solid. All three of my internships helped me figure out that I want to go into writing and the development side of the bizz. In a perfect world, I would be the youngest TV show runner ever but we can't have errthang.
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| Kenny in a weird ass picture |
I guess since I was there for school I have to talk about my classes. There were three of them. They happened. In Monday and Tuesday nights class, my friends and I spent most, if not all, of the time spamming each other's facebooks and laughing at Larold's (our prof) pronunciation of EntouRAGE and CoNAN. Wednesday's I cried because I had no friends in that class. Thursday nights's while my roommates were in the TV class that I should have taken, I was bored. The best part about classes is that they're over now.
I know what you're thinking, Yani did you see any celebs? Yes. Tons but I'm blanking so ask me in person.
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| for now, feast you eyes on Captain Hook from OUAT |
BU slacked on the classes but I gotta give them props for taking us to Disney and paying for most of the ticket. Disney was the happiest day of my LA experience. We won at everything that day and we did it while wearing matching "She want's the D" shirts.
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| we're literally perfect |
We got Disney honorary guests pins, we got complimented time and time again by the people working at Disney and everyone loved us except for one stupid ass ho at Tower of Terror. But it's chill cus no one likes her anyway and another employee made Matt instagram famous. There was a lot of us being idiotic, quacking, dancing, quoting inappropriate Chris Rock jokes (smack her wit a dick, smack her wit a dick) and I could literally talk your ear off about this day but I probably have already so I'll stop now.
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Fun fact: "Andy's coming" actually works. Try it and make Woody hate you. It's worth it.
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Now I just wanna stop writing this post and go back to Disney. I'd write about more of our adventures but that's too much work so I'm gonna post pictures instead. But I will say this: In and Out is God's gift to fast food and you all should cry if you haven't had it. In fact, I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it.
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| #drinkandbelarry - last program party |
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| Matt's bday cake |
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| Miss you so much already, boo #inandout |
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| Sean and Brenda (not her name) from the Bachelor were BEHIND US |
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| fuckin' space yo |
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| SYDNEY (Erica's dog came to visit) |
What else can I say? The semester was perfect and never had a made such a tight group of friends in so little time. I worry that my vocabulary has changed so drastically because of all the inside jokes that at any given moment I'll bust out quacking or "urf"ing and it won't be okay. It sucks that most of my friends are juniors, but they'll all move to LA eventually and we'll be "reunited once more" (if you didn't say that in Prof Trelwaney's creepy voice for HP3, I'm disappointed in you). In the meantime, it's like Vagina Hudgens says in High School Musical 2 "We might find a place in this world some day but at least for now I gotta go my own way." No? Ok I'll stop.
I fell asleep on the plane and when I woke up I saw the plane trajectory on the little screen in front of my chair and I freaked out a little bit. The program was too short and I hope LA is just as awesome when I go back. It's weird being back home and I can't wait to hit up Boston for graduation but it'll be nice to have some down time to just apply to jobs and stuff. This semester got me really pumped to move back to LA and if all goes according to plan, I should be back there by the end of May. Real talk, thanks for reading this post, I'm trying to adjust to being home again so I had to take a trip down memory lane before being able to close this chapter in my life. I can't believe I'm already done with college but luckily since I studied what I did, I'll eventually find a job I love. I'm anxious about job hunting and I'm trying to tell myself it'll all work out but I'm not totally sold yet. Eventually though, when I'm rich and famous you can say, "hey, I read her first ever blog post!" LOL oh man, this headache is making me delirious. The room is spinning, time to peace out.
Catch ya on the flip side mothafuckasss
-Yani
