Wicked

Since the day I began work at USD, Jonnie, Bryana, and I shared an office. Jonnie and Bryana, since day one, have been singing songs from the Wicked soundtrack. Jonnie and I left work at noon today to go to Los Angeles to meet up with Kelsey and Elise. We got dinner at California Pizza [...]

Earthquake Hits Cali

I have experienced a blizzard, hurricane, tornado, and forest fires….now an earthquake. Jonnie, Jeanie, Bryana, and I were walking towards Toon Town when the Small World building under construction began shaking. The ground was moving and I felt a loss in balance as the lamp posts were uplifting…
I really didn’t know what was going on [...]

Disneyland

….lets just say that I am not an early morning person. Waking up at 5am, 6am, etc… is not my idea of a day that is going to go well, but to get to Disneyland Park at opening, I made an exception.
I have been so intrigued to see how Disneyland and Disney World compare. Disneyland [...]

Phantom of the Opera

The last theater production I saw was Rent in Miami with Taryn. Summer Conferences offered a trip to go see Phantom of the Opera for only $11.00 a ticket. I have only seen it once, so I thought I would see it again. I bought a ticket for three of my staff members too, Michael, [...]

Mashed Potato Martini Bar

Everything has been going really well….last night there was a cocktail reception in the Science and Tech building. It was really neat. The building is only three years old and the lobby has fiber-optic magnetic string lights that hang from the ceiling center to create a chandelier effect. Around the lobby of the room are [...]

National Ironworkers

The largest conference of the summer is in-house. A huge checkin on Saturday of 384 followed by more on Sunday. As we checked in guests one after another the line continued to flow. National Ironworkers had their own check in and then they would flow into our room for housing. They were being housed all [...]