When Andy Dick bit my shoulder and sexually harrassed me...

Another couple weeks have flown by here in LA and they've been as busy and exciting as ever. Tonights my first time chillen at my apartment in the evening since I don't even know when! Some interesting things have happened since my last post. Probably the most eventful was my interaction with Andy Dick at The Roxy in Hollywood last week. My lovely roommate, Paige, works for a music PR woman who manages and represents bands. A couple of those bands were performing at The Roxy, and I decided to join Paige. What a night it turned out to be. First we had dinner with one of the bands, from North Carolina. The lead singer sat next to me and I learned that not only was he from Cortland, but he went to Ithaca for a couple years! As a music education and performance major! So we chatted about teachers that we've both had..he knew my voice professor. He was in Ithacappella. What a small world! He left college to do big things with his band, including making it to the top 20 in America's Got Talent. This past season of American Idol he made it to the top 42, and now he's with his new band. What a small world! So after dinner Paige and I waited outside with members of the other band performing that night (teenage brothers) and Andy Dick walks by us and into The Roxy. Paige knew who he was and noticed him walk into The Roxy, when we were waiting outside. One of the band members with us goes, “Are you Andy Dick?” and he replied “I wish I wasn’t. I wish I wasn’t.” It was then we knew he was strange…

Paige and I went in shortly after and were standing, kind of watching the band. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed Andy staring at me when he walked by me. When he came back he goes “Girls, we have a table, come sit with us.” Well, ok. We followed him and the guy he described as the one who takes care of him. I’m like, “I’m Kat.” He goes “I’m Andy.” He takes my hand then pulls me towards him and and he kisses my cheek and then keeps me there awkwardly until I kinda push him away. The rest of the time we were sitting in that booth was awkward, weird and creepy. He kept his hand on me, whether it was my back or my arm or my hair. He would pet my hair, he told me I smelled so good. He asked if I knew the band. I said I just met them today and the lead singer went to the same college as me. He then goes “And now he wants to f*** you.” WTF. By this point I'm thinking to myself, 'What is going on, what is happening, I need to get out of here.' Paige can tell things are weird, but she couldn't hear his weirdness because the band performing was so loud. Andy then goes, " We have to get going soon." Super relieved I go, "Ok, nice to meet you!" He then goes "Why are you so quick to get rid of me?!!? Why do you hate me?!?!" And then he BITES my shoulder. He bites it. Why?! I have no clue. So weird! That is when I'm like, ok I neeeed to get out of here. So I say, bye nice to meet you, and then he goes, "Let me say goodbye to your boobs" and tries to put his hands on my chest. Freakin creepy. Then we hurried outta there. We were able to enjoy the rest of the night at The Roxy, creep free.

Earlier that day Paige, Julianne and I went to a taping of Chelsea Lately! It was a lot of fun and the show was hilarious. The day before that Julianne and I went to see Conan, which was also reallyyy funny and a blast. Friday we went to a taping of the blind auditions of The Voice. It was so much fun! We were there for like 6 hours, but it never got boring and every minute was very entertaining. We got really lucky and got to sit in the second row (not the 1st because those are reserved for the paid pretty girls). We were right to Blake Shelton's left, so we were looking right at his profile. We were so close to him, probably less than 10 feet away. He has such an awesome personality. I wish I could be his friend hhahaa. He's hilarious. He even winked at Julianne, Paige and I! Before the Blake, Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera and Ceelo Green came out and before the show started theres an MC who gets the crowd pumped up and entertains us for a bit. The MC said he needed a crazy girl, and I was in the 2nd row, jumped up and down a bit and he called me up on stage. Another girl and I got to dance on the stage in front of the whole audience, to Party Rock Anthem, repeating moves that the MC would show us. It was so much fun!! 

For my internship I worked at a huge Mexican wedding in Pasadena last weekend. It was a long 14 hour day, but I enjoyed it. It was beautiful, and the couple was beautiful. A wonderful atmosphere to be in. This weekend I worked at a much smaller, laid back wedding at Long Beach. The bride and groom stayed at a The Queen Mary, which is a historic 76 yr old ship that was turned into a hotel. I spent the morning in it, helping the bride out. It was very cool and also super nostalgic being in the ship. It was my first time on a ship since I stepped off the MV Explorer almost 2 months ago. I couldn't stop thinking about it. I miss it like crazy!

A couple days ago I went to see the famous DJ AfroJack at a Hollywood club, Playhouse-where I've been a few times since I've been here. It was a whole lot of fun. I went with my friend Anna. A guy she met is a producer of one of the Real Housewives. He picked us up in his Ferrari, brought us to his penthouse in Hollywood Hills, overlooking LA..his neighbor is Katy Perry. We then went to the Playhouse and rocked out to AfroJack. We noticed Paris Hilton behind us, probably like 10 or so feet away. She was jamming out to her boyfriend, AfroJack. She was waving a glowstick in the air, acting like everyone else in the club. We went back to the penthouse and went in the hottub, overlooking LA.

I asked my friend Seth, who did the ICLA program last year, where he went to church when he lived here in the Oakwoods. He told me he went to RealityLA in Hollywood, so I decided to check it out last Sunday. I took a bus, but had to end up taking a cab when the bus dropped me off nowhere near the connecting bus I was supposed to take. The stress and chaos of the travel to church was well worth it. It was honestly the best, most moving, most amazing church service I'd ever attended in my entire life. The sermon was EXACTLY what I needed to hear. A HUGE Godwink. HUGE. It was about repentance. I met Seth's girlfriend, Janet. She's so great-I'm so thankful to have a christian friend here now. She brought me to community group (bible study/small group) last week in Burbank and it was wonderful. She brought me to church this sunday too-where there was yet again an INCREDIBLE incredible incredible service. The sermon was once again EXACTLYYY what I needed to hear. I think I'm going to blog about it-it hit me hard.

Tomorrow's Thursday already-whoa..June 28. Only 1 month left! Wow! I'm continuing to be very blessed here. There still hasn't been a cloudy day, in fact I can't even tell you the last time I saw a single cloud in the sky! Never ceases to amaze me!

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Keeping busy and having fun!

Wow this week flew by! Having 2 internships and always doing something different at both of them causes things to just fly. Life doesn’t get boring here! I’ve gotten to go to some fun events both with the wedding planning internship and also with Events2Give. I went to another event in Beverly Hills with my Events2Give boss, Amir. This was a small, beauty event at the Beverly Hills Plaza Hotel. It was beautiful! I had the most delicious Peach Bellinis and Sushi. I had a fun weekend, besides getting both a stomach bug and a cold, one RIGHT after the other. So strange. I went to a comedy show at Club Nokia downtown with Julianne and Paige (my roommates), and that night I got sick. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to go to Universal Studios the next day (a big group of us Ithaca kids planned to go then)…and I LOVE amusement parks. After having a kind of rough night, I woke up, and felt better, and decided to try Universal. My stomach was great for the rest of the day, which was a great relief. Half way through the day, my throat started to hurt and I’ve had a cold since then-so weird. I went from January until now without even getting a cold (a first in my life)..because of the warm climates…but I was constantly sharing drinks and food and hardly sleeping, so its pretty ironic that I get sick now! Anyways, Universal Studios was a lot of fun!

My boss is creating his own TV show and he had a production meeting on Monday. I got to tag along! The meeting was at a penthouse on the top floor of this big building overlooking all of Hollywood, including the Hollywood sign. The guys in Entourage lived at the penthouse in the show (thats where they filmed it). It was so cool! I met one of the actors for the TV show. He has been on a lot of movies and shows and definitely had a familiar face. We read through a few scenes. I got to read the narration. It was so exciting for me to be in that setting. I have a passion for acting, and I miss it so much. It was so fun to be around it again..reading a script, and hear the actors read and act out their lines.

The next day I went to see the Tonight Show (Jay Leno)! We got tickets for free, and it was perfect because there were great stars on the show that day-Emma Stone and Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Avengers, the Huntsman on Snow White and the Huntsman). It was a really cool experience, besides the whole waiting around all day. We got there unnecessarily early, but got really good seats because of it. We got to sit on the floor, which meant we got to go up and give Jay a high 5 when they announce him in the beginning of the show. 

On Wednesday Theresa, the wedding planner, brought me downtown LA and showed me the flower district and fashion district. It was fun walking around and seeing all of the fabric stores, and then seeing rooms where designers had their work. She brought her 2 daughters (one is 6 months and one is 4) so it was fun hanging out with them. Thursday I went to an event with them and Theresa’s husband at the Four Seasons. It was a wedding network event. I enjoyed some rose champagne and yummy food at a beautiful location. Each coffee table had fire burning in the middle. It was such a cool atmosphere! Friday I went to Theresa’s house. I made a few calls and sent some emails. Its been fun being around her daughters so much. It makes me really miss my niece and nephews!

Saturday night I had a fun night out with the girls at this club called Tru in Hollywood. Sunday I went to a pool party at the rooftop of the W called Club Drai. It was amazing. I went with Paige (not roommate Paige, but another new Ithaca friend). We were there all day-it was SO MUCH FUN! We met some cool people, enjoyed some great music, drinks, sun, and Hollywood views. It was amazing. But the fun didn’t end there! It was Julianne’s 21^st Birthday on Monday! I didn’t have to go into work that day so I had the day to prepare for the festivities-decorating, making the cake and such. I love birthdays! J  We went to a very authentic Mexican restaurant where this guy who was about 4 feet tall and was the valet danced with Julianne and I and boy did he get down! The Mexican musicians sang to Julianne, and she had a flaming Margarita. Then we went to this sweet bar on Hollywood called Velvet Margarita and enjoyed a free pina colada in a real coconut. After that we went to the Playhouse in Hollywood, just down the street, and a really fun time. Julianne had a wonderful 21^st, and we all had a lot of fun too! 

This week is flying by! Yesterday I went to the penthouse that overlooked all of Hollywood again. I had a really cool experience at the production meeting at the penthouse, meeting really cool, accomplished people, producers, actors…real cool stuff. There was a read through for a TV show that the production meeting was for, and I even got to read a couple lines-ahhh I miss acting!

Anyways, things are great. I just love it here, and everything is going by too fast!  I’m keeping so busy and am loving life!