19. tides turning

i got the most amazing internship with a wonderful woman! monday will be my last day at chic little devil and then i will begin my internship for Ele Keats!

17. chic little devil wears prada

when i first came to chic little devil, i was introduced to the INTERN HANDBOOK. this worn out white binder was my first friend. after reading over my internship duties several times (as it requested), i had to sign my name in the back and answer some questions about myself. as i flipped through the previously filled-out pages, i noticed there wereway more intern entries than there were interns. after putting the intern handbook back where it was supposed to be, i stood awkwardly in the middle of the showroom.
that just about sums up my first day at chic little devil. i stood around awkwardly. when directed to shaina, the "intern manager," she looked over at me and my friend disgustingly and said "i'm with a client."
interns aren't interviewed before being hired at chic little devil. it's kind of a hit/miss type internship, where it's really up to you to make this worthwhile or not. i have yet to decide if it's a hit or miss for me.
the intern handbook strictly says that one may never miss a day. while this may have convinced me for the first half of my first day at the style house, i quickly learned better. you're lucky if the employees even bother to learn your name. with 6 other interns at the style house at one time, it's that whole "too many cooks spoil the broth" scenario. one intern puts something where it belongs, and another moves it elsewhere, to a place it looks better. after sweeping, an intern might mop the floor of the backroom, requiring another sweep. a lot of the time, the only work we get is to clean up the mistakes of the intern that's standing right next to you.
i feel like it's the first day of school every time i get dressed to go to chic little devil. you have to dress to impress, and wear your best clothes. the trendier, the better. heels are a plus. however, if i wore heels i would be six feet tall and in terrible pain and horrible moods by the end of the day.
i have had to mop, sweep, hang up fallen clothes, fold and refold bags, sweep the balcony, wash the dished, empty ashtrays, glue corkboards to walls, carry mounds of clothes, and fold up enormous and heavy rugs. i have been a janitor to chic little devil.
today was probably the best day for me. i'm hoping this means that things start to look up, because getting another internship this late in the summer seems unlikely. today i helped a "senior intern" (a girl my age who happens to know an employee there and doesn't have to do shit work) and i bsaically sat at a computer all day. this was, of course, while 3 other interns bleached the walls on the balcony for hours on end in an attempt to get the rust off. i realize that i need to play my cards right in this business. i did today and i'll do it again. this is devil wears prada shit. i'm almost down.

16. upbeat friday

i spent today with my mom. we went to moca to see an exhibit that i have been dying to check out. "a changing ratio" featured art by rothko, pollock, rauschenberg, lichtenstein, warhol, and oldenberg. it was pretty incredible.

rothko! there were a room full of them. they all seemed to be vibrating with different types of energy. this one was one of my favorites.

jackson pollock, number 1!!!! this was the first painting of the series that he did. you can see the excitement on my face.

after, we went to phillipe's downtown, where they have french-dipped sandwiches. delicious! i'm back home now, after of course going to the market to pick up the ingredients for our family dinner. summer is nice!

also, i have an interview for an internship on monday. it's for this brand, treesje, that make handbags. they seem to be a really nice company so i hope i get the position! and then i can leave that awful internship at the style house. fingerz crossed!!!

taura comes back on monday! i can't wait to have a nice long video chat with her. it'll be really good to catch up/make plans for when i come to visit her in arizona!

that's all for now, bye!

15. interesting start to summer

at this point, i'm just trying to find another internship/job. i'm a little desperate and i need to leave the style house as soon as possible. fingers crossed.

14. first day of work

bad: anorexic girls eating peanut m&ms and diet coke for lunch, mopping and sweeping floors, pretending to be busy for hours on end, straightening and re-straightening racks of clothes and jewelry, being ignored and treated poorly, standing on my feet for way too long, listening to dumb music and awful conversations.

good: looking at beautiful clothes all day, looking at beautiful jewelry all day, walking through downtown on my lunch break, discovering an amazing hole-in-the-wall mexican restaurant, making new friends, gaining "experience," beautiful views of los angeles from the balcony, very discounted (and originally expensive) clothes i'll probably buy.

10. note to self:

things to look forward to:

-interning at chic little devil style house: surrounded by high fashion designers, helping out with photoshoots, doing coffee runs, becoming familiar with downtown LA, getting spoiled/spending all my money on clothes, dressing cute for work, $200 to their style house at the end of the internship.

-elayna visiting: june 9th-14th, going to the beach, shopping, having bezzie time, late night talks and antics, ice cream runs, dressing cute wherever we go, stealing each other's clothes, seeing high school friends together.

-end of the year festivities: undie run with sarah and elayna, elayna meeting my ucla friends (aka 2N), thursday night party with the floor (just stopping by), MOVING OUT on friday.

-being out of school: moving out, having my own room (at home), all my clothes in one place, not having to worry about school, summer weather=summer wardrobe, interning, seeing friends, traveling (SB, SF, OC).

-living situation next year: living in a double, with one of my best friends, decorating it cute, having my own bathroom, meeting new people on my floor.

-meeting new people: CEC, my internships, 2S (in rieber), friends living in apartments.

see? top that.

4. finallyyyyy

so this weekend was all work and no play. or maybe a little play. but sitting at my dining room table for hours while i killed myself over this essay for art history that was on baudelaire and modernity and painters and mary cassatt and auguste renoir was not tight. but ANYWAYS. i'm finally done and i don't LOVE the essay but i'll get a B or better.

last night i walked over to gigi's house and we shared a couple bottles of wine between the two of us and had a really nice talk. we discussed everything that had happened in our lives since we last saw each other (in march) and it was really refreshing to be with her. she's known me since 10th grade and that's a lot more than what i can say for everyone else that i trust at the moment. so hearing her opinion on my life just seems to be a reflection of who i was and how i have evolved. and so it gave me a really fresh perspective.

i got a 91% on my astronomy midterm and i did not do all that studying. needless to say i am very relieved and i reallyyy wish that i could minor in astrophysics. sadly that isn't offered. and to make matters worse i saw star trek today (which was AWESOME) and i was like, well maybe i could minor in just physics? but THAT isn't offered either. so i'll just stick with math.

i emailed the woman today about the internship (which i was supposed to hear about on saturday) and she said she would call me tomorrow. sooo now i have to wait until tomorrow afternoon. but i can take just one more day.

bedtime? yes.

2. getting too much and not enough done

i just got back from seeing "angels and demons" and i'm pretty sure that i had about 3 heart attacks during the whole movie. it was cool that i was able to identify most of the sculptures and paintings and churches they referenced, so props to professor black from winter quarter. also, i always find it really fascinating to learn about the history of religion and whatnot so i enjoyed it. it makes me want to watch the history channel or documentaries of some sort, or maybe read some books.

i really want to read more books this summer. i know i always say that and the fact of the matter is that i have a lot of shit going on this summer, but i hope that i can at least pick up something.

i guess i have a lot of standards for summer, and a lot of expectations for myself. i have a fear of actually writing them all down because then it will be all the more apparent that i won't get shit done. but whatever.

in other news, i'm waiting to hear about the results from my recent astronomy midterm. i'm also on pins and needles to see if i get that third internship at mannin jewelry. i really think that i could get a lot out of this job, and perhaps it could lead to something in the fall. i really liked the owner and the studio was just so cute. so hopefully i'll hear about both of those tomorrow.