Jour Quatre

Today marked the end of my first week as an intern at the Ojai Music Festival. Surprisingly, today was not as hectic as yesterday. There were still a few things to get done, but nothing too horribly time-consuming. I had to 'design' 200 signs for reserved seating and get those all ready. Today we completed Tom Morris' and George Benjamin's Artist Packages, yay!!! Those went out to them today, I do believe...All I know is that I didn't have to deal with them anymore. Oh, and today we also found a whole other box FULL of the green bags that we thought we had run out of and were scrimping for..wow. Oh well, I guess it's a good thing we now know that we have a TON extra. Other than those two packages though, the rest are still yet to be completed :[. I also started my next project today: to go through all the pictures from Ojai Music Festivals past and compile a file of hundreds of pictures to play as a slide show in the VIP Lounge - fancy! Not really haha, it's the same room all us interns are using during our internships. Let's see, what else did I do today? I ate Thai food and had Thai iced tea, yum! Hm, I guess not much else happened today.
Oh! But I did talk to Jeffrey a little bit today and he told me that Serni - someone from Puget Sound - is coming to the festival and he's going to introduce us! Apparently, Serni is a really big music business/industry guy at Puget Sound [which I had no idea] and Jeff had told me about him in the past when we were exchanging emails about this internship ordeal. So I'm looking forward to meeting him because hopefully he can hook me up with some cool projects at school! Exciting :D
Also, I found out that two people in the offices read my blog! Hahaha I guess since I posted a link to it on my facebook, Gina - the woman in charge of the festival's facebook fan page - saw it on the news feed and read it. And then Jeff has a Google updates thing [?] that notifies him whenever his name is used somewhere online and it popped up from my past post since I used his full name. So that was kind of funny when they both told me that they read my blog post, it was definitely unexpected haha. I wonder if either of you two are reading this post...??
Because of the lack of craziness in the office today, we got to leave a bit early today. However, since we're such dedicated interns, a few of us stuck around for about another hour [or maybe longer] and were just hanging out and talking and trying to figure out things to do because we all basically have the weekend off unless we have other little things to do. So five of us ended up going to Ventura! Margaret had to get a score by George Benjamin copied and bound so we went to a FedEx Business Center [NO MORE KINKOS! They're all called FedEx Centers now or something along those lines] in Ventura. Unfortunately, because of copyright stuff, they couldn't process the order right away. Maraget has to give them a signed letter of permission from George and then she'll be able to pick it up later. Apparently all us music kids forget about copyright; I don't know if that's a good thing...Anyway, so after that Margaret took us to a really cool record store called Salzer's Records. It reminded me of a mini Amoeba Music. So of course we were all super stoked to go to a record store [especially since there aren't any around anymore!] and I DID feed my music/CD-buying addiction by purchasing 4 CDs; I had about 6 at one point, but decided to try to control myself and cut a few out, I was upset though :/. It's an awesome record store and I'd really like to go back sometime because I barely explored it at all. The CDs I bought were:
Yeasayer: Odd Blood
Jaga Jazzist: One-Armed Bandit
Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now Youngster
The Little Ones: Morning Tide
The last two aren't the newest albums from the bands, but they're CDs I don't have and the music is good. So why not?
Then, we went to eat dinner at Rubio's. So classy, I know. Haha no, the food is actually pretty good. And of course, I'm the youngest one there and everyone buys a beer with their dinner except for me and my lowly water...I think we actually might go back to Ventura tomorrow, because Margaret definitely needs to go back for the FedEx thing and then Josh was talking about how he really wants to go to the beach and I wouldn't mind going back and I don't think Elizabeth or Phil would either. So hopefully we do, it would be nice!
Overall, today was a good day. I'm listening to some amazing tune-age right now from Yeasayer; it was definitely worth the 15 dollars, oh my god. So good. Listen to them!!! And check out their music videos! I've only seen a few clips of one of them but I was talking to Elizabeth about them and she was saying that all of their videos are insane. Have a good weekend everyone, don't go too crazy and rest up for a busy week! I know I'll be resting a lot, for sure. Next week is going to be ridiculously busy and crazy, I can feel it. Okay, another long day behind me. Goodnight!


Here's something to listen to and watch while getting ready for bed: