Just Another Atypical Day

Day One- Internship

So I drove out to lovely Santa Monica today for my internship. Well, it probably would have been lovely if it hadn't been pouring and if everyone who needs to use the 405 could've just not gone to work today. I enjoyed it nevertheless, I sang loudly to the radio as I cruised in first gear on the freeway. My job is 11.3 miles away, which means it's 45 minutes away in LA weekday morning traffic. Nice.

I got to the office and got the rundown of the place. When I got settled in, my boss gave me a rundown of my job. It's a lot of work and I have a lot of responsibility but it's super awesome!!! I was afraid I was going to have to answer the phones because no one went over how to do that. And then right when I had just finished drinking my nalgene of water that I had been sipping on for the past three hours, right THEN, my coworkers and the staff ask if I can answer the phones while they go in to a meeting. "Sure." I smiled. And then I prayed that the phone didn't ring while they were out because then I was going to have to move and if I moved I was probably going to pee my pants! The phone did in fact ring, but I didn't pee my pants. Instead I took a message from a guy with a name like Harmong Korzertz for a guy in the office that I didn't know yet.

And the random computer I was temporarily set up with kept crashing the web browser. Dumb PC. The irony is that it crashed when I clicked on a link to prevent it from crashing.

In other news, I had an almost literal celebrity run-in. I went out to my car to get my lunch. When I came back to my office I got in the dinky elevator and pressed the floor button. Ding. Elevator door slid open. Oh a dog. Chatty assistant. Owen Wilson. Oh sorry, Hi. Hello. Then as I walked in to my office I realized OH MY GOSH! that was REALLY HIM! So, yeah. I thought I was dreaming for a minute there, but it turned out he was real. Coolio.

Just another atypical day, weirdly mundane in LA.