For reasons that don't need exploring at at this juncture, I moved today! GUESS WHO HAD ONE WEEK'S NOTICE ABOUT HAVING TO LEAVE MY LAST APARTMENT? THIS GAL. It sucked. It was, y'know, definitely sketchy and not legal. But a few weeks back, there was a leak/flood from one of the upper units, and it leaked into my roommate's room. Now, my room was ( Read more... )

So today I had to go downtown to the building where they keep older court records for work-related reasons, and omg, getting to the records room is such a horror movie creepy process. At first it's just your average, rundown and dingy government building. But to get to the archive room, you have to take the elevator to the basement. And then, when ( Read more... )

So I had an extremely satisfying weekend! I spent much of it outdoors in the gorgeous warm weather here in LA, which was nice. Also extremely satisfying: unfucking my habitat by cleaning my room and the bathroom ( Read more... )

How Californians Are Totally Not Dealing With This Cold Snap. Oh Californians, never change. We are such wimps, it is hilarious ( Read more... )

On a somewhat sudden impulse after reading about it on LAist a couple days ago, I got a ticket to see Akram Khan Company's Vertical Road at UCLA last night. (My process went: read LAist post, watch production trailer, think "I would very much like to see that in person," check ticket availability, see there are a fair number of available seats, one ( Read more... )

I went to a friend's wedding reception in the Bay Area this past weekend (which was lovely), and now I am suffering from post-mini-vacation blues and I wanna move back to the Bay Area ennui. Not only was I pleased to be at her wedding, but I was also happy to be back in the Bay, land of BART trains and lovely breezes and excessively good food. I ( Read more... )

So last weekend my second cousins and their mom from New Jersey, and my uncle from Belgium were visiting. This past weekend, my German cousins and aunt and uncle came for a four-week long vacation. This means that my past two weekends have been entirely taken up with assorted parties and outings. I do love seeing usually distant family, but oh my ( Read more... )

I got over my desire to be a lazy pathetic shut in yesterday and a) explored my immediate neighborhood a bit on foot (verdict: most excellent 24-hour donut shop within a couple of minutes walk made it all worth it), and b) went to LACMA for a few hours. I felt a bit sad only spending a few hours there, but oh my god, my ankles were killing me and I ( Read more... )

The Santa Ana winds are blowing tonight, and now I know why I've felt uneasy for the past few days. It's not just my crazy PMS anxiety ( Read more... )

Well, I've settled on Pinboard as my Delicious alternative. I was encouraged by the owner's willingness to work with fandom, and I frankly feel more secure as a user knowing I'm a customer and not content. $10 is a small price to pay for that, and the only other free alternative I liked was Diigo, which apparently censors any links that refer to ( Read more... )