Summer stuff
Field work is neat, but tiring. Especially when one has be up at 4 a.m. to be on time for summer low tides. I have no idea how many calories I burned in setting up, pushing and hauling the net, running around sorting and cleaning up, but on both Saturday and Sunday, I had no energy left. They'll tell you that being in the water at 5 a.m. is great because you've got the entire day left after the morning survey is done, but leave out that you won't have any energy. Between a freelance web project, volunteering at the Aquarium, helping grad students, the Cabrillo Beach survey last weekend, and looking for an apartment, I haven't had much time to relax. The neighborhood is pretty energetic right now with beach traffic and all of the students being out of school, so it's not like I'd get much peace and quiet anyway. Jeff and I submitted an application on an apartment in Westchester today. It's a bit smaller than its nearby Fox Hills cousins, but the rent is also $500 cheaper. It would actually be a decrease in rent for both of us. The managers did not look too impressed with us for some reason so I hope they don't find some reason not to lease it to us. Poor Jeff has been waiting on his job to hire him on full time for ages, and we've been waiting on moving for months, now another nervous wait to see whether we get this place. I've never been turned down for an apartment, but his credit isn't the best. We'll see.
I was looking forward to summer being a time to reconnect with friends, but I don't know how much that is going to happen. I've gotten into a routine of keeping myself very busy so I don't have time to notice being lonely and isolated. Los Angeles is just full of busy people. Rushing, rushing, always rushing. Tara's bachelorette party is in a few weeks and though there were only a few of us on the email list going around to pick a date, the first responses were from women saying that they had no time and would be unable to make any date. One was barely able to make it to the wedding. One is doing a PhD program, one travels a lot for work, one is just starting a business. Like a bad marriage, I'm looking forward to leaving this city when I have the means.
Think I'll take a walk down to the heron tree. I used to pass this big tree that had a colony of night herons and green herons in it, but I was usually on a run and didn't have my glasses. There are many things I will miss about this neighborhood.
I was looking forward to summer being a time to reconnect with friends, but I don't know how much that is going to happen. I've gotten into a routine of keeping myself very busy so I don't have time to notice being lonely and isolated. Los Angeles is just full of busy people. Rushing, rushing, always rushing. Tara's bachelorette party is in a few weeks and though there were only a few of us on the email list going around to pick a date, the first responses were from women saying that they had no time and would be unable to make any date. One was barely able to make it to the wedding. One is doing a PhD program, one travels a lot for work, one is just starting a business. Like a bad marriage, I'm looking forward to leaving this city when I have the means.
Think I'll take a walk down to the heron tree. I used to pass this big tree that had a colony of night herons and green herons in it, but I was usually on a run and didn't have my glasses. There are many things I will miss about this neighborhood.