Well I thought it was a good idea, but my eBay auction for my Germany trip ended without any takers. I think that a few things contributed to it’s lack of success. I probably needed more time to organize the travel arrangements, which would have allowed for a longer auction and maybe a lower starting bid. I also realized after going live with the auction that the end-time was going to be around midnight pacific time and 3am east coast time. That’s certain death because most of the bidding occurs during the last few rush minutes of an auction. I knew this little rule of auction management but I must have been caught up in the concept and idea to think through the logistics of it. Anyway, that’s not to say that it would have been more successful had it ended earlier but statistics show that the best time to have an auction end is somewhere around 6pm to 10pm eastern standard time (people getting home from work and browsing the internet before bed, etc.). Oh well, so no Germany trip… at least not one next week.

On another note, I spent the weekend in LA. I don’t even know where to begin writing about this one. It was LA Pride although I didn’t end up doing anything actually related to the pride event itself. I didn’t go to the festival or the parade but just went out to clubs and hung out with some friends. One of our friends is very well connected in LA and is good friends with most of the club owners so it was VIP treatment the entire time. I’m not familiar at all with the LA scene and I haven’t hung out there much so all I can say is that it was by far the most VIP experience I’ve ever had. We walked right in through the back and side doors of clubs that had hour long lines out front with huge security guards and huge crowds. Most of the clubs in LA also have private VIP rooms in back and we had complete access to those as well. At one point during the night I looked over into the booth next to me and there was Anna Nicole Smith completely trashed on top of some other guy with two camera crews filming her. I took a few pictures before her nerd lawyer friend (from the show) yelled at me. At one of the clubs we were introduced to this young cute guy named Greg. We all hung out most of the night and then a small group of us ended up going back to his house in the Hollywood Hills for a few more drinks and hot-tubbing. Well Greg ended up being the writer and creator of the shows Everwood and Jack & Bobby on the WB network and was a contributing writer for Dawson’s Creek. Needless to say I am a huge fan of Jack & Bobby and so I did my best to not be an ass. It was a ton of crazy fun. He showed me the original script of another movie he wrote which is coming out soon. I’ve now decided that I’m going back to get my Masters in Playwriting :). I also hung out with another guy I met named Jordan who was really cool and cute. He was an actor but I’m not sure what movies he’s been in, not that it really matters to me. I can totally see how people can get wrapped up and lost in the LA scene. It’s easy to get swept up and taken along for the ride. I’m still replaying it over and over again in my head… crazy. Anyway, we stayed there overnight (what was left of it anyway) and headed back to San Diego on Monday morning.

I’ll write more later and I also have a bunch of pictures from the weekend that I’ll post once I organize and format them. And yes, I’ll even post the Anna Nicole pictures! lol :)

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