My Summer Bucket List

Okay so I got this idea from Kelsey. Basically, I have a very short time here in Southern California unless a) they extend my college program until January or b) I somehow manage to get a job and an amazingly cheap apartment and like 10 roommates in the next month and a half. So I need to make the most of this summer while I'm here. Anyway, I read her blog just now and thought, "What an awesome idea... I should do this too." So here it goes. My summer bucket list:

1. Go to Hollywood and see Up at the El Capitan. While I'm there, I might as well check out Grauman's Chinese Theatre and a few of the other sights.
2. Get a tour of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
3. Get a tour of Pixar.
4. Meet John Lasseter.
5. Go to the US premiere of Ponyo (and seeing as how John Lasseter might just be there it would be an excellent way of taking care of #4... plus I've been wanting to watch Ponyo for ages).
6. Finish my website (which would require me to finish my portfolio and demo reel too).
7. Network my butt off here at Disneyland and in Hollywood/Burbank/LA. So if I have to leave I will have some sort of network in place for when I want to come back.
8. Enter the Disney/ABC Television Group Writing Fellowship competition (which would mean finishing the Ugly Betty spec script this Thursday and sending it in).
9. Enter the Fox/Aniboom Holiday Animation Challenge (meaning I'd have to actually finish the animated short I'm working on).
10. Get a tour of Warner Bros.
11. See Wicked in San Diego.
12. Finish design/develop on all the websites I've been promising my friends (and the ones I've been promising myself I'd finish).
13. Finish all the fan arts I've been promising my friends.
14. Get back on my diet, get down to the fitness room (at least three times a week) and lose another 20 pounds.
15. Experience every attraction at Disneyland and California Adventure. And takes lots and lots of pictures.
16. Go to Knott's Berry Farm and meet Snoopy (and take pictures, of course).
17. Go to Universal Studios Hollywood (and take pictures).
18. Look into animation and art classes in the area (just in case I stay). And actually read some of the animation books I spent so much money on... and maybe do some of the exercises described in those books. Maybe I can even use that animator's disc I bought (the desk I had to leave at home... my little Beetle could only carry so much stuff across country).
19. Apply for a ton of jobs and get some interviews
20. Write lots of spec scripts.
21. Add more life studies and portraits and caricatures to my portfolio (in short, draw more).
22. Have fun.

Okay... so I think that's it for now. I might add some later. I mean, it's a pretty ambitious list as it is... but I think I can do it. Got on an interest list today for people who are leaving in August but who would like to stay on till January if possible. We'll see how that goes. In the meantime, I need to get my butt in gear and start looking for jobs and seeing how much apartments around here cost.