Tuesday, January 30, 2007

monday monday

yesterday I didn't do much. I worked out, wrote a little and yup, that's it. My life is v. strange at the moment. I think i may have come up with an idea for a pilot, maybe, not sure if it's just right just yet, but we shall see. anything else... nope, sorry for a lame day. Oh, i haven't heard from the guy who i went on a date with on sat. so there's that update.

Monday, January 29, 2007

the weekend

so this weekend, i had a grand old time, was crazy busy running around seeing people. Went to the staples center on sat. night for a cliippers game. my friend who writes on scrubs won a box in a raffle and invited myself and 8 other peeps and then some other people from scrubs were there, all guys, so i drank a few beers and flirted my ass off.

i had a date with a guy from eharmony, he was kinda nice and it was fun, kinda. but not knock my socks off, but fine. I mean that 's a lot of pressure i put on myself for a 2 hour date/job interview type thing. If he emails me i'd totally go out with him again, although he failed to say at the end of the date "we should get together again... " so perhaps he didnt lik me. I hate how awk and forced dating like this is. HATE IT and resent it and wish i met my husband in college or in my group of friends.!!!

Last night i drove to the OC to have dinner with my 20 year old cousin who goes to college down there. i took her out to eat and while we were seated, a guy started choking. The women he's with call over the waiter and ask him if he knows the heimlich manuerve and he says no, but proceeds to go behind the guy to do... i dont know what, there was a lot of commotion and i totally got blocked from seeing what was going on even though it was the table next to us. Well, the guy ended up getting whatever it was out of his throat, but i turned to my cousin and said "i know the heimlich" and she's like why didnt you get up and do it and i was like "the waiter guy said he didn't know it and then started hitting the guy on the back, was i supposed to push my way through shouting i know what to do?." And the reality is if the guy did in fact need the hemilich, i would've gone over there and done it, obviously, but they weren't turning to the restaurant for help just yet, I wasn't sure of what my role shoud be.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Simon

I have a friend named... we'll call him simon. I've known simon for about 8 years. I have worked with simon on 2 shows. Simon once told me he liked me. but not in one of those big sit down i need to talk to you ways, but in an off the cuff, we're both in the same coffee shop on the way to work conversations. I told simon I had someone who i wanted to set him up with and said but she's loud and obnxious and he said that's okay I've had a crush on you all these years and I said okay great and left. that was like 4 years ago.

so back in october, I was at a party with rachel and liz and simon comes in and starts talking to us and i introduce him to rach and liz and then simon moves away and rachel says "simon is in love with you" and i'm like SAY WHAT? YOU GOT THAT FROM A 5 MINUTE CONVO? and she said it's pretty obvious. so then my friend paula started dating simon around Christmas and then broke up with him and i was at the movies yesterday with paula's best friend and she said "paula seems to think that simon is in love with you," and i was like WHAT?!

what is going on? I love simon but i dont LOVE SIMON. he's kinda of a total mess. what am i to do? also he's never asked me out! and i'd say no BECAUSE HE'S A TOTAL MESS. ugh! why can't someone who i want to be in love with me be in love with me???

eharmony

here's what i'm up against on eharmony. here's who i am matching with. this is one guy who I sent the follwoing questions to and these are his answers. I don't want to poison the well, i think you can see why i'm including them in my blog:
my commentary is in itlaics after the answer.



Looking back on your life, of what are you most proud?:


I'm most proud of getting my license as a certified public accountant.

THAT is what you're most proud of? Isn't that like me saying I'm most proud of getting my drivers license? I'm sorry, but there simply has to be something he is more proud of! HAS. TO. BE. IF THIS IS WHAT HE'S MOST PROUD OF I CAN'T DATE HIM.


What is the most adventuresome thing you've done in the past year?:

The most adventuresome thing that I've done in the past year was for work. I had to take a one day trip to Portland leaving LA in the morning, drive across the Columbia River to Vancouver, WA. Then I had to cram a full day's work into about 2 hours. Then it was back to Portland airport to be back in LA in the middle of rush hour. Wish I had a chance to have some fun on the trip though.

FUCK SHIT FUCK. I spontaenously took a trip to italy to stay with my friend to go to the olympics with no tickets, no plans nothing, then after the olympics, I just got on a train by myself and bummed around italy. That is the type of answer I want! going on a business trip is not adventurous! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

i hate my roomates

so i live with my roomate and a few months ago this girlfriend moved in with us. here is my top 5 reasons why i hate her.

#5 She's dumb!

hey some peopel are dumb, that's not their fault, but she really really dumb because she reapeatedly asks me the same questions over and over and over and over again. that's another thing, she's always talking to me and it's so fucking annoying and it woudln't be so annoying if SHE WOULD REMEMBER THE ANSWERS I'VE ALREADY GIVEN HER. for example last week she heard my radio playing in my room (she's always listening to my phone convos or listening to what's going on in my room) anyway, i came out of my room and she pounces on me the second i step out of the room and is like "do you have satellite radio?" Me: yes. her: cause i thought i heard howard stern. me: "WE'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION LIKE 10 TIMES ALREADY!! okay taht's not what i really said, but that's what i wanted to say because we've had that fucking conversation A MILLION FUCKING TIMES!! she's so fucking stupid.

so yesterday she said to me "how's your job search going?" and i said to her "my parents always ask me that and i keep telling them that the job search ONLY takes place during may. the weeks leading up to may are very busy going on meetings with the networks, but the actual jobs are really given only in may." she asks me this at least once a month and i've explained to her REPEATEDLY that there is no job search or opportunities between may and may. SO STOP FUCKING ASKING. it's obvious that if i get a job, i'm going to be kicked out so she is eager for me to get a job, i mean there is really no other explanation for her fucking stupidty.


#4 whatever i do she does

she always comes running out of her room when she hears me downstairs in the kitchen or coming out of my room. so this morning, i put a load of laundry in and left the house. I came back two hours later and she has taken over the washer/dryer and doing laundry. even though i have my basket sitting there with a few more loads that i wanted to do. So i came home, saw that she had now taken over the laundry and i was in the kitchen and started to make lunch. so she comes out of hte office (having heard me come in) comes into the kitchen and starts to make lunch. I go into the other room with my lunch and I turn on the news. She finishes making her lunch and comes over and starts watching the news with me. Then I leave. as i leave she hears that I'm walking around with shoes on and gathering my keys, etc and she comes running out of her room to ask where I was going. I pretended to not hear her. I came back 2 hours later, I came in, she heard me sit downstairs and start watching TV, she leaves the office and decides to make a big snack for her and her boyfriend and they sit down at the table and start talking loudly.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY

TODAY is my big brother's 40th birthday! I can't believe it!! How can i possibly have a sibling that old. Now most of my good friends can't relate because I am friends almost exclusively with the exception of 2 people (and one i'm on the fence about) with only oldest children. so these people would not know what it's like to be going through this. However i'm sure the same thing was thought of me by my brother when I turned 30. He's was probably like I can't believe my little bratty sister (oh yes, i'm bratty, it's true, i'm sure it's a SHOCKER!) is 30 years old. Last time I checked she was 10.

yesterday i went to an abs class at my gym. Now I've been going to classes at the gym over the course of my life all the time, always predominatly or exclusively made up of women. this is the first class I have ever been to which was predominatly male, interesting as i looked around the room. sure i go to the gay gym so it's all gay men wanting to have fab. abs, but still, i was very surprised. I guess women want nice sculpted legs so theyr'e always doing step or yoga. anyway, i suck at ab classes so i dont htink i did any of the moves right since i'm not that sore this morning! maybe it will get worse as the day goes on.

Monday, January 22, 2007

oh, eharmony

so i joined eharmony a few months ago, say about 2 months and it so far has been pretty slow going and that's kind of annoying. I had one date last week and another date yester. with the same guy, we'll call him john. So i went out with john last weekend and the date was kind of a bore and i was pleading with my eyes for the waitress to bring the check. sometimes getting dinner for a first date is a good idea and sometimes it's most def. not because with dinner you're stuck, with drinks you can chug and drink and be out the door in mere minutes.

anyway, all my friends insisted that i need to give john a 2nd chance, i thought they were crazy seeing as I hated the first date. well hate is a strong word, but i didn't enjoy it that much. but to a certain extent they were right, i mean he did fall in the grey area and the grey area usualy is awarded a 2nd date. so yesterday i grabbed coffee with him b/c i had to meet friends for dinner that night (BTW if you get awarded a coffee date for the 2nd date after a dinner date, you've been seriously down graded to a tropical storm, the relationship is no longer a hurricane i'm afraid to say to any potential daters of mine out there reading this)
and john is so nice, but i'm just not that attracted to him and now ih ave to send an email kind of blowing hiim off, I HATE THAT!! i know he won't be devastated after 2 dates to be let go, but still, i think he thought we were having a grand old time, he just didn't see me checking my cell phone 3 times in the one hour we were together. (p.s. i had a very positive attitude going into the date, i dont want to hear from anyonen saying, maybe you went into it thinking you already didn't like him. blah blah blah. no i was really upbeat and positive and wore a cute coffee outfit!)

Thursday, January 18, 2007

movie mania

as a member of the writers guild I get sent screeners of all the top oscar buzz movies. Last night I watched the queen and Babel.

Babel was strange and good, maybe tried too hard to be "different" but overall thought it was a great film.

The queen i ddin't love, way over rated. granted I watched the DVD on my computer, but still, it was just eh. Although helen mirren was awesome!!

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

went to the justin timberlake concert last night!! HOLY CRAP HE ROCKED!!! he is an amazing performer, it might be hard to imagine but the boy can freakin' dance, i watched him amazement!!!! it was my 2nd JT concert and this was so so much better, the first one 3 years ago was his first solo tour and he has more confidence now. i'm so lame for typing that sentence.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

golden globes

aww yeah, went to the NBC - universal nbc after party last night! It rocked!!! saw all the nbc stars, everyone from the office, donald trump, and donald JR, the cast of heroes, a few soap stars, ben affleck, jennifer garner, a few movie people, all in all very successful star sightings! check out the whole story over at tvcocktail.ivillage.com you probaby need to scroll down as some of the posts have been knocked off the front page.

also my friend carrie from high school who now also lives in bev. hills was at the park with her son last week and was pushing him on the swing and lo and behold, britney spears came over and put preston in the swing next to her son and they were talking for ever and what's funny is THE ENTIRE THING WAS VIDEOTAPED BY PAPPARAZZI AND ON YOUTUBE!!! i will link it later!

Friday, January 12, 2007

I'm wearing my headphones at the writers guild so I don't have to talk to the guy here who has a crush on me. I haven't seen him in like 2 months, but ugh, he showed up today. and when he saw me he said "I was just listening to some of your music." REALLY, HE'S DOING A SARAH MACLACHLAN JOKE TO ME? REALLY??!?!? WHAT THE F@#$Q@? Yeah, that's the way to my heart!

yesterday i had the most fun! I worked on a movie for warner bros. Often times they'll have a talbe read of a movie with the whole cast and then they bring in writers for the day to punch up the script, i.e. making it funnier. Everyone there knew the director except myself and another guy also represented by my agent and if we weren't htere they would've had no jokes. Him and i pitched a ton and got them all in and the other people pitched nothing! hello, you're getting paid to do this! it was very starnge, but it felt so so so so good to be back in a writing room, doing what I love, doing what I'm good at! I really need to get a job this seaon! If I dont i dont know what will be come of me!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

b/c my career is ruined I need to get the anger out and i'm off to find a place that will teach me boxing.

last night i went to jackie's and we watched Grease and the apprentice together. her husband went to get us pizza and joined us to watch grease.

my roomate wrote me an email about letting one of the cats out and said it had to be me this morning becasue i was the only one who opened the door however i know for a fact that e said one of the cats he had to also opened the door because i came home late last night and saw a script outside the door and I just didn't feel like picking it up just to be a bitch, so I left it
there and when I left this mronig, he was reading it,SOOO he obviously opened the door and got it this morning. but i can't say, oh, what about when you got the script this morning... because then he'll know i saw it there and didn't pick it up on purpose.

Monday, January 08, 2007

we all know how my 2006 went, do i need to remind any of you? well, 2007 is not working out much better. I have been working on a pilot, mostly doing a shit load of research for it SINCE JULY. and in august I pitched the idea to my agents and they were like, hmmm, not sure it's accessible enough for amercians, only to read today that FOX JUST PICKED UP A SHOW ABOUT THE EXACT EXACT EXACT SAME THING!!!! I'm fucking losing my mind!

I mean, the personal lives of the exact same group of people?!?!! HOLY FUCK!! just goe to show you my agents don't know dick about TV!!!!

FUCKK! now what?

saturday night was fun at least before my world just came craashing down on me, went to natalya's baby shower/party. it was basically just a party with a ton of people I knew, and the only baby shower part of it was I brought a gift for the baby. I told my friend paula about my new years eve story and she told the entire party! that was nice i thought seeing as I didn't want anyone to know that my friend's friend (who is a male) was doing naughty things to me in bed while also doing naughty things to beth, the other girl in the bed. (we were all just innocently crashing at my friend amy's apt. when the guy started getting fresh with the both of us!!)

but who cares about that MY CAREER IS RUINED!
we all know how my 2006 went, do i need to remind any of you? well, 2007 is not working out much better. I have been working on a pilot, mostly doing a shit load of research for it SINCE JULY. and in august I pitched the idea to my agents and they were like, hmmm, not sure it's accessible enough for amercians, only to read today that FOX JUST PICKED UP A SHOW ABOUT THE EXACT EXACT EXACT SAME THING!!!! I'm fucking losing my mind!

I mean, the personal lives of the exact same group of people?!?!! HOLY FUCK!! just goe to show you my agents don't know dick about TV!!!!

FUCKK! now what?

saturday night was fun at least before my world just came craashing down on me, went to natalya's baby shower/party. it was basically just a party with a ton of people I knew, and the only baby shower part of it was I brought a gift for the baby. I told my friend paula about my new years eve story and she told the entire party! that was nice i thought seeing as I didn't want anyone to know that my friend's friend (who is a male) was doing naughty things to me in bed while also doing naughty things to beth, the other girl in the bed. (we were all just innocently crashing at my friend amy's apt. when the guy started getting fresh with the both of us!!)

but who cares about that MY CAREER IS RUINED!

Friday, January 05, 2007

CLEVELAND BABY!

quote of the day: Next time put these items in a zip lock bag instead of one that is a zipper. - the security guy who tore open my bag and took out the little shampoo and conditioner bottles i had and then put them in my clear zipper bag. I guess because the thinking is, while in flight I CAN undo a zipper, but couldn't possibly figure out how to undo a zip lock.

I'm sitting in the cleveland airport, just chilling next to some guy who has a bad attitude in my humble opinion. Went to the gym today and worked out like mad, which is why i felt like I desserved a TCBY yogurt upon landing in cleveland tonight. I caught an earlier flight to cleveland (imagine my surprise when I thought I landed in houston only to find out I was in cleveland) and now I'm waiting for my connection to LA. a guy wearing a bright orange cowboy hat dressed in his pajamas just walked by me and sat down at my gate... I fucking know he's going to be the jerk sitting next to me!

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Play Like A Champion Today

quote of the day: "Is that diet?" my dad asking if my pitcher of soda that he wanted was diet coke after he had eaten the following: a bowl of chicken soup, 2 plates of chicken wings, 2 plates of pasta and 1/2 turkey pot pie.

"Play like a champion today" is the quote that is above the exit frpm the locker room to the field at the University of Notre Dame football stadium.

My dad, sister and I went to watch the Notre Dame game last night in NYC at McFaddens. A notoriously lame ass 20 something frat boy bar that just so happens to be the Notre Dame club of NY's football watching bar. My dad being an alumnus and hug follower of their football team wanted to watch the sugar bowl there. HE also was motivated by the fact that maybe my sis or I would meet a nice irish boy, at least a higher caliber man than the meatheads that usually inhabit that bar. Unfortunately the Irish did not play like champions, they got killed by Louisiana State. Stupid southerners.

and alas everyone was around 25 and the bar was loud and crowded so we didnt really get to mingle, but it was a good time nevertheless. Heading back to LA tonight, won't get in until real late, dreading the travel it will take to get there, i don't have a direct flight and that blows.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

french

Quote of the Day: "You look better when you are wearing make-up." from amy gross at dinner friday night,

it is believed that she meant to say, out of all my friends you know how to wear make up the best... this was a the begginning of the meal, mind you, alcohol is no excuse!


everything on my dad's computer is in french. the google is the french google and this blogger is competely in french! Ugh! IMPOSSIBLE! (that was my limited knowledge of french being exhibited)

friday night had dinner with amy, noah, remi and carrie (my 2 friends from LA) at mexican radio downtown and then we headed to a wine bar for a few drinks. it was very fun and relaxed! My favorite kind of night.

Friday morning, I had b'fast with alyson (shout out) and went to the gym with suzy. we gossipped while on the treadmill for over and hour and and then we hit the pool. suzy talked to a guy the entire time while i did laps, mind you the pool was like 5 feet wide so even my measly 40 laps probably only amounted to 1/8 mile. got up saturday morning to go to weight watchers only to find out i've gained like 1000 pounds in one week, even after all that working out! Ugh AND IT'S NOT MUSCLE, I PROMISE BECAUE MY PANTS ARE TIGHT! EATING A CHOCOLATE BAR A DAY DOES NOT MUSCLE MAKE!!

i'm heading back to LA tomorrow. Coming back these past 2 holidays has been weird. it appears everyone i know has thier own lives and friends and boyfriends/girlfriends/husbands/kids, etc. and seem to be very busy and i spent more time with my parents watching DVDs than going out with my friends, which was enjoyable but not necessarily the reason I come to visit. I suppose we've all grown up and I'm a stranger in a strange land.