1) A wedding gown designer. When I was 13, becoming a dress designer was one of my dreams. I used to scribble pictures of dresses on napkins when my family went out to eat. Unfortunately, my insight into the gown industry was limited and all my drawing came out looking like the exact same piece o'crap gown: thin spagetti strap, umpire waist and then simple flowy bottom, which is probably the last thing I'd pick as my actual wedding dress. Alas, I didn't become Vera Wang, but I do enjoy flipping through the bridal magazines at the drugstore and checking out all the new designs.
2) A mythbuster. I am totally hooked on that show and I think it'd be really fun to figure out the different experiments and test them out. Of course, I am clueless when it comes to science so I would probably never make the cut.
3) A Greenpeace (or PETA) activist. Yep, that would be me cleaning oil off all the baby seals and ducks. I don't think it pays well and I'd probably be arrested for disorderly conduct, but it would be exceptionally cool.
4) A foodie. I'd work for a local paper in some very chic town that has wonderful restaurants and I would go to them all and sample the food for free. Then I'd write about it. I'd probably be really fat, but at least I'd be fat and happy. In this vein, I also dreamed about being a pastry chef (and open my own bakery in Hell's Kitchen like Kyotofu) or a wedding cake decorator. Everyone loves desserts so I think it'd be fun to create the desserts that people love. I would be a lot like Sookie from Gilmore Girls.
If you're looking for a good Los Angeles food blog, my favorite is http://www.potatomato.com/mt/index.html
Sookie
5) An adventurer/riverboat captain. I had a dream last night where I was riverboating in a creepy bayou but it was more like roaring rapids and the boat capsized and I had to save my family from almost certain death. But in real life, I don't think anyone judges riverboat captains. You're not held up to very high expectations, as long as you don't steer the boat into a sandbank or something like that.
Although I could still ditch my plan to be a designer and go to culinary school, I'm re-energized now that my summer classes have started and I feel like I'm actually being productive again. My motion graphics class starts on Friday, I can't wait! My dad got to fly out to Pittsburgh for my cousin's Bat Mitzvah, but we couldn't go so I felt really left out. It was apparently a big family reunion and we missed it! Extended family has started being more important to me than it was when I was younger. My dad filmed my grandpa and his brother talk about our family history and I learned a lot of things I didn't know. For instance, I am a little Romanian. It really throws off your sense of identity when you throw a new heritage into the mix.
I went to see Jon Brion last week at Largo on Fairfax, my most favorite singer/songwriter/composer. He shaved off his lumberjack/Gandolf beard which was unfortunate because I've grown fond of it. He was amazing as usual and there seemed to be lots of famous musicians in the crowd who got up to play with him. There were the Watkin siblings from the group Nickel Creek, the drummer from Rilo Kiley, and some others whose names I have forgotten. I've also been at the Hollywood Cemetary for screenings of old movies. I saw Gilda not long ago and tomorrow is Rebel Without a Cause. We bring a picnic and I really enjoy going there, despite being surrounded by graves. It's not as creepy as it sounds.
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