December 2011
1 post
A Whole Semester of Organizational Communication...
I’ve worked at HEB for four years this February. Most of the organizational communication I encounter on a daily basis occurs at HEB, thus providing the material for this blog. I will admit that many of these stories are not very positive. I’ve lost my cheery disposition about HEB and working for them after four years of needless problems and frustrating instances. With that being...
June 2011
1 post
Friday and conclusions.
I never ended up blogging on Friday because my day was fricken insane and stressful. My flight was delayed by two hours in LA, which ultimately would have made me miss my connection in Dallas to Austin. I ended up managing to get a 10:30 flight but it meant I wasn’t going to be getting home till 11:30 (when I was supposed to be in at 8!). On the bright side, I didn’t have to spend the...
May 2011
18 posts
p.s.
Totally saw Janice Dickinson yesterday in downtown LA. Yeah, that’s right. The crazy ex-model that sometimes judges America’s Next Top Model. She honked at our van, rode our ass, then cut across three lanes of traffic, then (as if this wasn’t enough) went roaring past us in her Mercedes that had a disabled tag. It was pretty much amazing. She is also 100% fake in the face. And...
Our last day...
…sniffle. I’m a stange mixture of really excited and sad. One side of me can’t wait to get home and the other side loves California and doing awesome fun things. Blegh. So today didn’t start out too well for me. At all. I went to bed last night at 2:15am, knowing that I had to be up at 6:30am in order to shower. When I woke up, the House of Blues was still haunting me and I...
It's time to play catch up.
Not being able to go to The Price is Right kindof messed up our plans for Wednesday and Thursday. We ended up starting our morning at the Paley Center in downtown LA. We only had about an hour of time there and Alexandra and I (yes?) didn’t do too much but it was definitely worth the visit. Essentially the Paley Center is big on television. They have a huge library of sorts filled with...
One of our lazier days...
So today was kindof dissapoint. Firstly, we were supposed to go to a live-taping of The Price is Right this morning. I posted a status about it and everyone seemed so pumped for our group that I didn’t have the heart to tell them that our plans fell through ): We left the dorms at 10am, drove for about an hour, and then made the quickest stop possible for 11 at In n’ Out Burger. We...
Santa Monica Pier and Warner Bros Tour!
Woo! Today was awesome throughout :D We started out with a trip to Santa Monica Pier. I had definitely seen it a million times before in movies (especially the carousel, isn’t there a movie were people shoot around it at each other? It seems familiar) and it was awesome to actually go! Santa Monica Pier is definitely just one of those places you hear about through films, television, and the...
Today was both boring and fun.
The day started out with church for everyone but Red and I. We just wandered around Burbank for an hour or so before meeting up with the rest of the LA crew in the church’s kid room…thing. Today was our “celebrity” interview days of sorts and we met up with Dink O’Neal (an actor), Steve Marshall (a cameraman), and Janet Knudsen (a producer/production manager). I will...
Laguna Beach!
So I’m a little sunburned… all over my face, shoulders, and upper back. Ow. On the birght side, I’ll at least be warm in the dorm tonight. Today was an extremely chill day. I woke up at 11am (after 10 hours of sleep, wtf) and got ready to head to Laguna Beach. We left at around noon and Alexandra and I spent most of our afternoon “fighting the ocean.” Yeah,...
Feeling a lot better...
…But I got even more sunburned today. Blegh. More about today later though cause first I have to discuss the awesome that was Disneyland! Yay! I have never been to Disneyland and I’ve always wanted to go and I can say honestly that while it was not what I was expecting it was completely and totally amazing. We started off with a tour called “A Walk in Walt’s...
Dead tired...
…And feeling a little icky. I think it’s a combination of being on my feet for 14 straight hours, not getting enough sleep, not getting enough water, and getting sunburned. Not gonna front, I’m writing about Disneyland tomorrow when the room stops spinning.
The Writers Guild and shoppinggg.
Woo, day three! :D Today was a lot more chill than our last two days. I woke up at 9:30 (it was almost like sleeping in! Although only for me, Alexandra woke up at 8) and I got showered and dressed and the LA crew headed out to the Spectrum (right? :P ) for shopping. It was essentially like a way more pretty Domain (mostly because it was in California with the now gorgeous weather). Alexandra and...
Universal Studios y'all.
Before the awesome stuff, I have to discuss the weather in LA. It is cold. Honestly. Way colder than I was expecting in May from California weather. I woke up this morning at 6:30 (bleggh!) in preperation for our two hour drive to Universal and Alexandra’s and my room was a giant ice box. It was nothing short of horrible and it turns out we weren’t the only ones suffering. The entire...
Dodgers Baseball Game, woo?
Alright y’all. Lets just be honest and lay this on the table. Baseball is boring. Extremely boring. And this game was no exception to the rule. We arrived about halfways into the first inning and missed the first two home runs from the Dodgers. And then the game kindof died down. FOR THE NEXT SEVEN INNINGS. Nothing happened. NOTHING. At all. And it was freezing cold outside and drizzling...
Sitting in a dorm room...
…IN LA! WOOO! :D I’m pretty pumped. There will be more to read later.
It is Monday.
I can say honestly that I woke up this morning with a hangover. It was nothing short of horrible and I was a walking zombie until about three this afternoon (after having drank two bottles of Irn Bru, being sick a few times, eating half a sandwich, and finally taking an hour long nap). On the bright side, I feel much better now! :D So yes. LA trip begins tomorrow. I hate packing. HATE IT....
