More May
Great weekend! I am successfully avoiding all forms of responsibility, particularly schoolwork...nothing bad has happened as a result yet, but I have a feeling something might soon. But there’s only 3 weeks of school left!!! But more about this later; the good news shall come first.
On Friday night I tagged along with Conor and George to Ralph’s, because I needed to buy some jello. I went to bed fairly early, but was still dismayed to wake up on my own at 8:45 the next morning. It was actually very fortunate that I did wake up, however: after unsuccessfully trying to fall back to sleep, I checked the phone messages received at night, and learned that Joanne and Alex were going to brunch in Silver Lake at 10:30. If I had slept longer, I probably would have missed out! So I got up, ate cereal, watched the latest episode of Community On Demand, and took a shower.
We went to Cliff’s Edge, which was beautifully decorated with colorful pillows and bamboo plants. The entrance was like a little oasis, or a replica of Disney’s Adventureland, or something. The menu was a bit limited and expensive for my tastes, but the nutella-stuffed French toast with flambéed bananas I ordered was probably one of the tastiest brunch items I’ve had :) The Silver Lake Farmers’ Market was going on across the street, so we checked that out after eating; I took a shot of wheat grass for old time’s sake, and bought The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis from a used book stand. There were at least 5 other books I would have purchased had I had more cash on me.
Back at my apartment I dressed for the JELLO WAR, cubed my jello, and put it in ziplock baggies. I met up with Alex, Conor and George to walk down to the park at Wilshire and Veteran. Eventually the others showed up - Megan, Charles, Daniel, Reza, Ali and her friends. We ran around in circles for ten minutes, flinging handfuls of mushy green and red jello at each other. It was exhausting and exhilarating and sticky! I have now participated in a shaving cream war, a whipped cream war, and a jello war. Shaving cream is still the best, because we smelled so fresh and so clean after.
Took a long shower at home, made some food, and collected spare pillows and blankets for the Wizard of Oz screening at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Megan and I found street parking, walked for blocks carrying pillows, and then waited in a really long line with Angela and her friends. I was so glad to run into them; not only did we cut in, but they also fed us a ton of food once we set up inside. Our seats were terrible, but it was such a fun experience, it didn’t really matter! It was a learning experience, and next time, I’ll know better what to bring and how to dress and when to show up.
At 11:30 I went to Ty and Alex H.’s apartment for a party, which was actually a smallish CEC get together. I was tired and somewhat bored, but I stuck around anyway because I wanted to be with my friends. At 1 everybody went to Fatburger, and I followed suit, because why not? I figured I can sleep later.
Of course I was grumpy when I woke up at 10 on Sunday, but I had to get ready for another brunch in Silver Lake! Last week Paige, Ashi, Taya and I decided (via facebook) to go to brunch at noon; I’m not particularly close with this group of girls, but I figured it would be fun, and Paige and I are both going east for grad school. It turned into a definite clusterfuck, though. I texted Ashi on Saturday about carpooling, and her response was “thanks for reminding me!” This surprised me, I guess because I have so many things to juggle that I am completely reliant upon my google calendar/blackberry calendar synchronization. After I picked her up, she called Paige and Taya to make sure they were ready...but neither answered. We went to Paige’s apartment in Echo Park, where her boyfriend told us she was “in the desert” (which apparently means she went home to visit her family). I didn’t hear from Taya until 2, when she texted me that she and her boyfriend had just woken up. It was fine, Ashi and I had a very nice brunch at Millie’s, where I ate my first breakfast burrito, but it still irks me that it was so easy for everyone to mess up these plans. I wonder if it’s something about the group of people, or if things like this happen all the time? I haven’t done weekend things in years because of work, but I ate brunch with people every weekend when we lived in the dorms--we didn’t meet early, and there was rarely a definite plan made beforehand, but we always managed to meet up anyway. I don’t know, maybe I’m making too big a deal out of it? I’m not mad, just surprised that it fell apart so easily I guess.
Megan pulled a similar stunt at 2:30, when I was back in Westwood. I was thirty minutes late to pick her and Claire up for some shopping, but this ended up being immaterial, because Megan was also asleep. It’s not annoying when Megan does this though, because she is basically an insomniac. Claire and I went on our own to Space 15twenty, where we spent a few hours at the vintage flea market, Free People, and Urban. I’m not a big fan of FP, but I tried on a lot of dresses at Urban; [un?]fortunately they were all far too short for my liking, so all I left with was a Levi’s denim jacket. We ended the afternoon with some coffee at Groundworks, a cool local coffee shop.
Spent a few hours at home being lazy, eating dinner, and organizing photos, then went to Trader Joe’s with Megan at 9. At 10:30 I went over to “Monticello,” aka Devon and Marissa’s apartment, with Jake and Logan and Teddy. I had run into them the night before, after Fatburger, and they told me to come over and watch Pretty Wild! with them. I didn’t bother looking up the show, because I assumed it was something on Adult Swim...it’s a good thing I didn’t investigate, or I wouldn’t have ever gone over! PW is a stupid show on E! about three slutty girls and their mom who have moved to Hollywood to try to 'make it,' or something. The first scene was them taking pictures of one daughter, naked, in the shower. WTF! They showed her entire naked body, just with the nipples and crotch area blurred out. Of course it ended up being hilarious because it was so ridiculous and the girls are so stupid, but it’s still difficult for me to sink so low into the morass of reality television. Channel surfing afterwards led to an hour of Daria on Teen Nick :)
So you see, I’m clearly making up for lost time and all the weekends I spent at work over the past three years. And it’s great! I do my reading when I’m on the bus, and in between classes, which really frees me up for fun the rest of the time. But I can feel the irresponsibility piling up--on Wednesday I have a paper due that's worth 10% of my grade, a summary of two interviews. But...I haven’t done these interviews! I’m going to interview a friend tonight, but I honestly have no idea where the other one is going to come from! I should have gone to the East LA Farmers’ Market on Saturday, but I chose to go out with Joanne and Alex instead. There are no regrets, and I’m sure this interview thing will work out...but I just have so much FUN planned for the next 3-4 weeks (Aziz Ansari, Ed Sharpe, Miike Snow, Voxtrot, banquet, LACMA, Silver Lake Jubilee festival, hiking. Judd Apatow award, Get Him to the Greek, Troll 2 midnight showing, Devon’s birthday party, trip to Santa Barbara to accept my scholarship, summer job apps, North by Northwest and Purple Rain at the HFC...and much more I’m sure that I’m forgetting!) How am I supposed to write a paper and prepare a presentation and study for a final? I’ve been gripped by a bad case of senioritis… I’m hoping that if I have lots of fun during the next three months, I’ll be so sick of it by the time I get to Boston, that I’ll be more than happy to spend my weekends devoted to class.
Summer fun will prove to be difficult, of course. I’m not sure how to spend my time-I need to make money, so a job is my first priority. But should I have 1 or 2? 30 or 40 or 50 hours aw eek? Anthropologie-will I like helping 40 year old fancy ladies buy the clothes I covet? Will the discount make it worth it by allowing me to buy some pretty summer tops that will be impractical in Boston, or will it suck up all the money I should be saving for winter boots and coats and living expenses? What about the internship I haven’t heard back from? Should I take Spanish 101 at SBCC? But that could get in the way of when I’m able to work. I want to have the flexibility to drive to LA for evenings for random fun things. I’d like to read a lot for fun, but I also want to re-learn to ride my bike, and find some way to walk a lot, lest I turn into a fatty. I don’t want to be bored, but I also don’t want to overburden myself, because I know how insane the next two years of my life are going to be. Only time will tell, I guess…
On Friday night I tagged along with Conor and George to Ralph’s, because I needed to buy some jello. I went to bed fairly early, but was still dismayed to wake up on my own at 8:45 the next morning. It was actually very fortunate that I did wake up, however: after unsuccessfully trying to fall back to sleep, I checked the phone messages received at night, and learned that Joanne and Alex were going to brunch in Silver Lake at 10:30. If I had slept longer, I probably would have missed out! So I got up, ate cereal, watched the latest episode of Community On Demand, and took a shower.
We went to Cliff’s Edge, which was beautifully decorated with colorful pillows and bamboo plants. The entrance was like a little oasis, or a replica of Disney’s Adventureland, or something. The menu was a bit limited and expensive for my tastes, but the nutella-stuffed French toast with flambéed bananas I ordered was probably one of the tastiest brunch items I’ve had :) The Silver Lake Farmers’ Market was going on across the street, so we checked that out after eating; I took a shot of wheat grass for old time’s sake, and bought The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis from a used book stand. There were at least 5 other books I would have purchased had I had more cash on me.
Back at my apartment I dressed for the JELLO WAR, cubed my jello, and put it in ziplock baggies. I met up with Alex, Conor and George to walk down to the park at Wilshire and Veteran. Eventually the others showed up - Megan, Charles, Daniel, Reza, Ali and her friends. We ran around in circles for ten minutes, flinging handfuls of mushy green and red jello at each other. It was exhausting and exhilarating and sticky! I have now participated in a shaving cream war, a whipped cream war, and a jello war. Shaving cream is still the best, because we smelled so fresh and so clean after.
Took a long shower at home, made some food, and collected spare pillows and blankets for the Wizard of Oz screening at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Megan and I found street parking, walked for blocks carrying pillows, and then waited in a really long line with Angela and her friends. I was so glad to run into them; not only did we cut in, but they also fed us a ton of food once we set up inside. Our seats were terrible, but it was such a fun experience, it didn’t really matter! It was a learning experience, and next time, I’ll know better what to bring and how to dress and when to show up.
At 11:30 I went to Ty and Alex H.’s apartment for a party, which was actually a smallish CEC get together. I was tired and somewhat bored, but I stuck around anyway because I wanted to be with my friends. At 1 everybody went to Fatburger, and I followed suit, because why not? I figured I can sleep later.
Of course I was grumpy when I woke up at 10 on Sunday, but I had to get ready for another brunch in Silver Lake! Last week Paige, Ashi, Taya and I decided (via facebook) to go to brunch at noon; I’m not particularly close with this group of girls, but I figured it would be fun, and Paige and I are both going east for grad school. It turned into a definite clusterfuck, though. I texted Ashi on Saturday about carpooling, and her response was “thanks for reminding me!” This surprised me, I guess because I have so many things to juggle that I am completely reliant upon my google calendar/blackberry calendar synchronization. After I picked her up, she called Paige and Taya to make sure they were ready...but neither answered. We went to Paige’s apartment in Echo Park, where her boyfriend told us she was “in the desert” (which apparently means she went home to visit her family). I didn’t hear from Taya until 2, when she texted me that she and her boyfriend had just woken up. It was fine, Ashi and I had a very nice brunch at Millie’s, where I ate my first breakfast burrito, but it still irks me that it was so easy for everyone to mess up these plans. I wonder if it’s something about the group of people, or if things like this happen all the time? I haven’t done weekend things in years because of work, but I ate brunch with people every weekend when we lived in the dorms--we didn’t meet early, and there was rarely a definite plan made beforehand, but we always managed to meet up anyway. I don’t know, maybe I’m making too big a deal out of it? I’m not mad, just surprised that it fell apart so easily I guess.
Megan pulled a similar stunt at 2:30, when I was back in Westwood. I was thirty minutes late to pick her and Claire up for some shopping, but this ended up being immaterial, because Megan was also asleep. It’s not annoying when Megan does this though, because she is basically an insomniac. Claire and I went on our own to Space 15twenty, where we spent a few hours at the vintage flea market, Free People, and Urban. I’m not a big fan of FP, but I tried on a lot of dresses at Urban; [un?]fortunately they were all far too short for my liking, so all I left with was a Levi’s denim jacket. We ended the afternoon with some coffee at Groundworks, a cool local coffee shop.
Spent a few hours at home being lazy, eating dinner, and organizing photos, then went to Trader Joe’s with Megan at 9. At 10:30 I went over to “Monticello,” aka Devon and Marissa’s apartment, with Jake and Logan and Teddy. I had run into them the night before, after Fatburger, and they told me to come over and watch Pretty Wild! with them. I didn’t bother looking up the show, because I assumed it was something on Adult Swim...it’s a good thing I didn’t investigate, or I wouldn’t have ever gone over! PW is a stupid show on E! about three slutty girls and their mom who have moved to Hollywood to try to 'make it,' or something. The first scene was them taking pictures of one daughter, naked, in the shower. WTF! They showed her entire naked body, just with the nipples and crotch area blurred out. Of course it ended up being hilarious because it was so ridiculous and the girls are so stupid, but it’s still difficult for me to sink so low into the morass of reality television. Channel surfing afterwards led to an hour of Daria on Teen Nick :)
So you see, I’m clearly making up for lost time and all the weekends I spent at work over the past three years. And it’s great! I do my reading when I’m on the bus, and in between classes, which really frees me up for fun the rest of the time. But I can feel the irresponsibility piling up--on Wednesday I have a paper due that's worth 10% of my grade, a summary of two interviews. But...I haven’t done these interviews! I’m going to interview a friend tonight, but I honestly have no idea where the other one is going to come from! I should have gone to the East LA Farmers’ Market on Saturday, but I chose to go out with Joanne and Alex instead. There are no regrets, and I’m sure this interview thing will work out...but I just have so much FUN planned for the next 3-4 weeks (Aziz Ansari, Ed Sharpe, Miike Snow, Voxtrot, banquet, LACMA, Silver Lake Jubilee festival, hiking. Judd Apatow award, Get Him to the Greek, Troll 2 midnight showing, Devon’s birthday party, trip to Santa Barbara to accept my scholarship, summer job apps, North by Northwest and Purple Rain at the HFC...and much more I’m sure that I’m forgetting!) How am I supposed to write a paper and prepare a presentation and study for a final? I’ve been gripped by a bad case of senioritis… I’m hoping that if I have lots of fun during the next three months, I’ll be so sick of it by the time I get to Boston, that I’ll be more than happy to spend my weekends devoted to class.
Summer fun will prove to be difficult, of course. I’m not sure how to spend my time-I need to make money, so a job is my first priority. But should I have 1 or 2? 30 or 40 or 50 hours aw eek? Anthropologie-will I like helping 40 year old fancy ladies buy the clothes I covet? Will the discount make it worth it by allowing me to buy some pretty summer tops that will be impractical in Boston, or will it suck up all the money I should be saving for winter boots and coats and living expenses? What about the internship I haven’t heard back from? Should I take Spanish 101 at SBCC? But that could get in the way of when I’m able to work. I want to have the flexibility to drive to LA for evenings for random fun things. I’d like to read a lot for fun, but I also want to re-learn to ride my bike, and find some way to walk a lot, lest I turn into a fatty. I don’t want to be bored, but I also don’t want to overburden myself, because I know how insane the next two years of my life are going to be. Only time will tell, I guess…