tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257048452011-11-27T16:36:58.331-08:00Gillioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03682509545161906607noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25704845.post-18646040247757800802007-09-01T12:14:00.000-07:002007-09-01T12:29:39.474-07:00

On Thursday night I went to Lucha Vavoom, a crazy spectacle of Mexican wrestling, comedy, and burlesque dance. It was great fun and the kind of over-the-top fun and zaniness that I like to have.Some of the pictures are online and can be found hereOn a quasi-related note, I was coming home from work yesterday and was in the elevator with this sweet old lady. "Hot out there!" I tell her. "Yes!

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This morning I took my car to get serviced. I had about an hour to kill so I decided to take a walk, find a nice cafe someplace, have a coffee and a pastry or something for breakfast. I walked and walked through the wasteland known otherwise as Glendale until I finally found a little mexican bakery. Looked a little grungy but I figured what the hell, it was the only place I'd come across in 30

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I've finished Kafka on the Shore. It's kind of lame how long it takes me to get through a book, but I just have to savor every word and let it absorb through my skin, right down into the depths of me.One more excerpt from the end:"Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able

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On the plane ride down (up?) to Canada, I kept my nose buried in Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. I've been reading and not reading this book for a while and really need to finish it both because I have a pile of others waiting and because it's terrific. Anyway, I was so into the book that I didn't notice we were landing and as the plane was touching down -- at the exact moment -- I was reading

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Going home for a visit. Something about that sounds backwards. Home shouldn't be a place you visit. Everywhere else should be the place you visit and home should be home. I'll post some pictures of food and fun when I return!

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No, I'm not making chili. When I was at work this week, one of the touchup artists (a guy who looks like he could either be an ultimate fighting champion or at least be the #1 fan of the sport) was heating up canned chili in the kitchen and said those words to me completely seriously. I retreated to my cube and proceeded to laugh for 4 days.I've been keeping busy and having a terrific time. I

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So Cinco de Mayo didn't end up being the wild party I was hoping for, but nevertheless I was determined to make my Sunday count. At around noon, after eating part of a banana and packing up my essential supplies (Kafka on the Shore, sunscreen, hat), I got in the car and started driving in the general direction of the ocean. As usual, it was a beautiful day. I was actually thinking to myself "

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Goddamn is it tasty! Tonight's salad pulled together various related flavors such as a peppercorn asiago dressing, a peppery cheese of some sort, and some spicy chicken andouille sausage. It was also topped off with some chopped onion and garlic almonds.Sorry I didn't make enough to share! Get your own salad.

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Well, that's it! 3 weeks of detoxy goodness. I didn't stick to it 100%, nor did I get as much excercise as I should have. But it was still a success in my mind because I'm not eating whole meals that contain nothing but starch and meat anymore.So overall, I would definitely recommend giving this program a try, especially if you're like me and tend to not eat enough veggies. Most of the book

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As you can see, I've been keeping a little too busy to bother with the updates now that I'm in the home stretch. I haven't been sticking to Joshi 100%, but by now it's become more of a lifestyle change. I have less of an apetite, and I naturally balance out a "bad" meal with a healthy salad meal or even a whole day of healthy eats.In a sense, the diet has become irrelevant. I'm not planning on

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Before leaving for Las Vegas, I watched the movie Leaving Las Vegas. Not exactly the happiest pre-trip movie, but it captures something that's on my mind. The urges to create and to destroy are in us all. It's impossible to tell which will win out at any given time.I had a salad for dinner. Urge to destroy.Song of the Day:Depeche Mode - Precious

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Coming up on the 2/3 mark. My weight loss has definitely slowed down, and I can see that I'm not going to meet my goals in a mere 3 weeks. I'm stuck at around 181lbs. The addition of rice and rice cakes to my diet seems to have ground the weight loss to a halt. Need to cut back on that stuff. I don't mind a slowdown because hopefully this will have altered my lifestyle in a more permanent

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I am incredibly sore from the hike. I haven't been this sore since the first time I did power yoga. It was a fantastic workout, not because it was 3 hours of walking mostly uphill, but also because Travis set the pace, and the guy is in terrific shape. He who rides a bike to San Diego for fun is definitely someone you want setting the pace for a hike.Tonight I'm going to eat an ugly but

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I missed a day of posting. For shame! Anyway, this weekend marks the halfway point in the diet, and also my first (hopefully only) instance of faltering. On Friday night I wasn't hungry so I skipped dinner, and ended up going to a couple of bars. I had two gin and tonics which was all I could do to minimize the damage. I made up for it yesterday by going on a nice long hike and then eating a

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The pullup bar is great! It's a bar, and you, you pull -- yourself -- up. Lunchtime continues to be a challenge, my coworkers mostly enjoy eating fast food and burgers, and I have to try to steer them towards places I know have at least some kind of salad. Dating will also be tricky, since I have to avoid alcohol, caffeene, and most good food. Thank God for sushi.Last night's dinner was tasty

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Yesterday things got a little turned around. I planned to have salad lunch but went out with the co-workers. They decided to go to Johnny Rocket's, which is one of a small handful of places that I can't find anything to eat at whatsoever. So I went around the corner to the mall food court and picked up some shitty chicken teryaki, and had to refuse rice and noodles and get all veggie. So to

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So this is the end of week 1. It hasn't been easy but, you know what? It hasn't been that hard either. Psychologically, I think this is all about control. I am asserting control over something that the majority of people (myself included) feel powerless to manage. The body is a pretty logical, straightforward meat machine and there is no reason we can't vary the inputs and the amount of load

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Today I noticed a subtle improvement in my health. I cut my fingernails and they are much stronger and less brittle than they used to be. Can you take a clipped fingernail and bend it so that it curves backward? I can!I know what you're thinking. You're thinking "Gil you must get out there and begin fighting crime immediately!". But alas, I am still vulnerable to papercuts, so not quite

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Yesterday I did the detox drink. It really wasn't bad at all in terms of taste. The ingredients are: 300ml of grapefruit juice, 200ml of water, juice from some garlic and ginger, and 2tsp olive oil. Getting juice out of garlic and ginger is pretty damn hard if you don't have a press. I just minced it all up and then squeezed between two spoons, and then dropping all the pieces into the

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Yesterday was my first social outing on Joshi. I went to see Grindhouse with a pal, and had to refuse popcorn. Refuse popcorn! Anyway that was comparatively easy since there was a movie to watch. I don't know what I'll do when I inevitably end up at a bar in the next 17 days.Vegas will also be extremely difficult. I'm going for a day and a half to attend the NAB (National Association of

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So far, so good. My sleep has gotten much more regular, and it's easier to fall asleep than it used to be. This morning I had to wake up to go to work, but, being a Saturday, my alarm wasn't set to go off. Nevertheless, I woke up at 7:42 and was very alert. No need for snoozing.I ordered a pull-up bar and skipping rope from Amazon. They're both very cheap and will allow me to work out at

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Yesterday's eating went pretty much according to plan. I only strayed by eating one piece of matza with hummus. Hummus is okay, matza is technically not.I also went grocery shopping to pick up a variety of things that the detox demands. Other than the obvious (tons of veggies), I got plain yogurt, rice milk, green tea, frozen mahi mahi fillets, sunflower seeds, wasabi crunchy peas, brown rice,

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Inspired by DanK's success with the 21 day detox diet, I picked up the book and read half of it on the plane ride back to L.A. Not surprisingly, many of the justifications the author uses in the book are complete nonsense. The declared purpose of this diet, according to the author, is to restore the body's pH from acidic to slightly alkaline. To that end, he lists a whole lot of foods that you

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It's been almost a year now. For almost a year now I've gone without the water of my life: my family, my friends. But I was lucky enough to find an oasis. She was family and friend to me and it's been the best year of my life because of her. But I can't stay in the oasis forever. Time to move along. It's only been a day and I'm thirsty.

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As you can see, there has been no actual progress on the bridge project. I think the lesson here is that one of the defining differences between software engineers and real engineers is that the software variety are incredibly lazy.I'm not much on production, although sometimes I relish it. What I do enjoy is coming up with a thousand random ideas, waiting on my ass, and then sending everyone

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I was just filling out an introspective questionnaire in preparation for some team building thing at work and I got to thinking, am I really an engineer? Does being a software engineer endow me with the skills to do any engineering task, given enough time and research material?To try to answer these questions, I am going to start a pet project to test my engineering potential. I am going to

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So it was pointed out to me that I've been extremely lax in my maintenance of this blog. I already missed writing about all sorts of mildly interesting events like my visit to Toronto and San Francisco. Pics from San Fran are here in case you missed 'em. You need to sift through them though because I didn't bother filtering out the boring ones. Last night we had a pretty laid back valentines.

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It didn't take long for the bitter Canadian weatherbeast to track me down like the helpless bunny that I've become. They say California makes you soft (especially around the middle), and I am totally prepared for the snow in the forecast thanks to my layers of protective blubber. Unlike most idiots, I am not making the hypermetropic mistake of worrying about cholesterol killing me in 50 years,

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Last night I went to an Italian eatery a block from my apartment with Nat. We were celebrating our 7 month anniversary and were enjoying a tasty bottle of wine from Napa Valley when I suggested playing 20 questions to guess what she got me for my birthday. Since she got me two different things, it would be a double challenge to try to guess them both within the 20 question limit.It went like

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It has come to my attention that due to prior commitments, Saddam Hussein will not be able to star in my planned sitcom pilot "Saddam". I was hoping to fill the void that was left when Seinfeld went off the air with a similar format starring the deposed dictator.I was expecting Saddam to get a mere slap on the wrist and be sent to rehab for his genociding, much like other troublemaking celebs (

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Last night I celebrated Christmas Eve with lemon pepper chicken and a Rashomon dvd. Not quite the festive party with sweaters and friendship and Frank Sinatra that I envision, but oh well. I also went to Trader Joe's (friendliest staff ever), and the cashier asked me to tell her a story to entertain her. I didn't have any stories so I just started in on the Brady Bunch theme song. She picked

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I need to catch up on current events.Iraq is still screwed. We're still all being slowly cooked like lobsters in a big pot of global warming, I think. The new Nintendo is making people enjoy playing like kids again and taking the focus off of technology. This is smart.Speaking of kids, due to a severe lack of family, Nat and I went to Vegas for American Thanksgiving and didn't eat any turkey.

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I wasted a lot of time trying in vain to buy one of those newfangled Playstations. Thankfully it was only time wasted online and not time wasted in line. I was watching Lost while being a loser in the comfort of my apartment.Called my local GameStop retailer:Me: Hi, I am interested in the Playstation home entertainment system. You know, the one with the sixty gigabytes and the six axises of

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The work day went by in a breeze. I wasn't working on anything particularly challenging but I was producing non-stop, other than a few msn distractions. After a month without work, I started to feel down. I need to produce. I'm not doing stuff that's mathematically challenging but I've found a niche that balances my nerdy and artsy tendencies and I am pretty grateful because I ended up here

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Wow, so it's been months since I last posted here. And it's for a lack of delicious food pictures. I've just been busy okay? So what if I haven't blogged about my adventures to Toronto, New York, and the little things like moving to a new place and starting a new job? What's important is that I'm here and I have nothing important to say. I've finally finished reading 100 Years of Solitude.

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I'm catching up on food picture uploads to my Flickr stream. This salad was created by the skillful culinary masterwork of Natalie a few weeks ago.I need a better camera in order to get better depth-of-field in my food pictures. This is becoming an obsession. Is there a self-help book or a twelve step program to help me?On a totally unrelated note but a blogably worthwhile tangent, I saw a

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Last night I took a couple of exhausted newlyweds to Wolfgang Puck's flagship eatery, Spago Beverly Hills. It was such a good experience that I can't help but write about it here despite my serious neglect of this blog for the past few weeks.We started with martinis. Dan and I each had a dry vodka martini and Elina had a cosmopolitan. The pre-first course breads were awesome for me, although

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As the cliche goes: Whatever happens in Vegas, don't stay in Vegas. I'm trying ot catch up on recent events but it's hard to find time to write...So the Vegan trip was fun, the drive up there wasn't too bad. The desert seems like a really great place to fight someone to the death barehanded. Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity. The hotel we stayed at (Imperial Palace) was total shit

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Schnitzel Dinner 1 Originally uploaded by Gillios. Today I went shopping for Natalie's birthday. I can't tell you what I got her. It's a secret! I got a haircut at yet another random west hollywood salon. This one ended up more of a trim but I was so eager to get out of there that I didn't care. Yes, I made that schnitzel from scratch all by myself. And yes, it was perfectly cooked

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Stir Fry on Rizzo Originally uploaded by Gillios. So origiNatalie is away in Costco Rico... I'm replacing her with housekeeping and overeating. I made chicken stir fry on rice, and reclaimed my chef's hat when the rice came out perfecto. After finishing laundry, I ate Doritos and watched season 1 of Entourage until I felt sick to my stomach and then I switched over to just the

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Sorry about the lack of updates, but as usual my absense from blogging is a good sign. I've been busy lately! I met a girl. Her name is Natalie and she digs my crazies as I dig her's. We've seen each other every day since we met, and I've gotten very little sleep but it's so worth it. Those of you who know what a romantic I am can guess the overwhelming thoughts and feelings running through

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That's right! Food porn is back! This is Thai red curry chicken. The reason why it's not plated is because, well, the rice it went on ended up like hummus and it wasn't very pleasant to look at. But the chicken looks good, doesn't it? :)Anyway, so I haven't posted all during Tal's visit, and it would be impossible to sum up the last ~2 weeks in a single blog post. We had a blast, we

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"Gil, this is one of those shits where I have to take my pants totally off"That's the latest line from Tal, who has been suffering from a hilarious bout of the shits. I've been laughing my ass off for the last hour. We got a little lost driving home from dinner at the Olive Garden and he was having a really hard time keeping his shit together. I even had to pull over at a shitty run-down plaza

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There's nothing like travelling with an odd looking parcel that might speak volumes about your personality. But I swear, it's not mine. Gil had asked me to play FedEx and cradle in my bosom his precious dance intensive video game, "Dance Dance Revolution: Extreme". The El-al interrogation had me sweating bullets, asking me all sorts of random questions, having me speak some choppy jew and

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I finally bought myself a digicam so I can show you my dinners in vivid colour and be able to provide the poster-sized prints you have been quietly wishing for. Don't worry, Gil knows your dreams. Main Area Originally uploaded by Gillios.

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I got my social security number. I am also deeply in love with Netflix. Ben is in town so I'm probably going to hang out with him soon. He's an old pro at this "being L.A" thing, so it should be fun. Did I mention I really like Netflix? Don't even have to move my lazy ass to get a dvd, it just comes to me. They even have a girls gone wild-esque series available. Live the dream Gil, live

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This morning I woke up and went for a walk around the farmer's market. I thought about buying strawberries because they always look so good but I have too much food. I went to Borders and bought myself a yoga mat and a couple of books (Franny and Zooey, Kafka on the Shore). On Shoshi's advice, I went for a drive to the beach. I took the 101 to Malibu canyon, and then took that road to the

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So long time no update? How've you been? Who cares, I'm the coolest! I'll skip over the boring daily stuff and just mention that Jamie Foxx is filming a music video in the alley right next to my building. From my roof I have the perfect vantage point. Too bad I don't have a decent camera! I had to make due with my cell phone cammy. He was literally within spitting range. Not that I would

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Last night I checked out that comedy show. Some of the sketches were really funny, but others were a disappointment. Neither Andy Dick nor Ask a Ninja performed live, but ninja was there as his alter-ego: Fat Nerd. Before the show started the music playing was a lounge singer doing various songs that were kind of funny sung in that style, like Welcome To The Jungle.Noteworthy Sketches:Matthew

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Sunday MorningLast night with Dave was fun. We had dinner at an Italian place called Max's, and then went bar hopping. He seems to either know the city well by now, or was just leading me down random streets and picking random bars. There are enough bars in New York. The last place we wandered into was Coyote Ugly. Kind of a fun juvenile feel to the place... Lots of cute girls. The whole

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While I was waiting at the airport gate there was a girl across the corridor who seemed to be staring at me. She kept turning her head and looking towards me for long periods at a time. She was kind of cute and by herself so I started thinking about going over there and keeping her company. Luckily I was still debating this in my head when her boyfriend came back. She was probably just

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So today at work I got my part of the GUI working at a reasonable state. The guy who is in charge of the interface was totally wowed by it. Words like "wonderful" and "amazing" were thrown around. I think I'm being too productive, though. What if I get everything done and there's no more work for me? They'll pat me on the back and send me packing early!Now for the mandatory talk of food that

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Today for lunch I had salad. I make sure to eat a salad at least every other day at work. It's so tasty, but I think my body is not accustomed to the input because by 3pm my stomach was hurting. So I'm planning a caper. Here's the story, my boss's wife has a client/friend who is the widow of a famous director (Stanley Kramer), this lady has a particular task that she has requested of my boss

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So today was a typical day, you can tell by the lack of updates that my life is both too boring to write about and too busy to have the time. Work is still fun. I am always amazed at how fast my extra-long day flies by because I am genuinely interested in what I'm doing and doing it well. Compare that to Avenza where I was usually falling asleep by 2pm. I think the difference is in focus. At

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So this morning I met up with my Israeli compadre to get his car inspected. We were told it'd take about an hour and a half so we went for coffee and chatted for a long while. When we came back we were told it'd be another hour, so we went for lunch at McDonalds. I hate McDick's but there wasn't anything else around. I had their "new" spicy chicken. It's tiny but pretty decent. Yosi gave me

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Okay so my culinary skills are generally limited to bringing frozen or dehydrated foods up to their edible states, but it still counts as cooking!Today I went to see a couple of car possibilities. Right now I'm torn between a '97 Accord that needs some work but is cheaper and a '00 Civic that needs nothing but costs more. There are many variables. Oxymoron of the day: City National Bank on

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So today was a very fun day at work. I spent most of my time writing new code and learning something completely new, and I was so totally into it that when the time came to have a meeting I was suffering from sitting around and listening to someone bitch and moan and wanted to get back to coding. I usually hate coding but when it's a clean slate and you have a clear idea of what you want to do.

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I'm not in much of a mood to write today. The car fell through.Gil moment of the day: I went to check my snail mail and smelled reefer in the hall. I think it's my cool across-the-hall neighbour. I think he even had people over. When I got back to my apartment I heard people in the hall so I scoped out the peephole for like a solid 5 minutes waiting to catch a glimpse of my neighbours. No

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I got screws! Now I have everything I need for my weekend of putting on overalls and going all Holmes on Homes. In other much less important news, I found a car that I'm settling for and probably buying on saturday morning. It's a '98 civic with some modifications that I really don't want but some asian kid must have thought were the coolest things in the world. I am becoming what I've always

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Well, maybe it's a tie. But I'll get to it.Today was another work day, I'm going to start spreading out the updates because really not much happens when you're at work. Although I will say this, I am deriving a lot of amusement out of work because the design of the thing I'm working on is so bad. I don't feel like writing a whole lot about that, and most of you people who aren't Jenn are

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I probably had a bunch of stuff to write about, but in my colossal stupidity, I stepped out for a walk and forgot my key. The drug store was closed, and I grabbed a pizza slice on the way back. At $3.24 for a cheese slice it was a big ripoff. Then came the suckiness of realizing I didn't have my key. Had to wait about an hour for the maintenance guy to come and let me in. I feel like such a

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So today I don't have much to talk about. I got up and drove out to burbank to the Ikea store to pick up some space-wise organizing solutions for my domestic vida loca. Ikea is so fucking good. I can't properly express the feeling I have when I'm there and all of the products I want to buy are even in the right order as I walk down the unidirectional arrow path through the various departments.

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Not Baldwin, Guinness. Today I woke up nice and early and checked out of the hotel. I pricelined a 4 night stay and only ended up using two nights, and it turns out that priceline doesn't let you get any money back, so as it turns out I could have spent those two nights at a 4 star hotel for the same money. Boo, but oh well. I hauled ass to the new place and moved all my crap in, which is

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Day 2: I woke up early and drove out to Santa Monica. I wanted to see what it's like before commiting to the loft in Hollywood. It's a very nice area that's probably lots of fun if you don't work for a living. I would have been glad to live around there but for the commute. I timed my visit there so that I could do a test run of my commute to burbank from there. I ended up "leaving" at 8:45

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On Purpose. So I've arrived! It was a pretty exhausting journey. After I boarded the plane from philly to L.A., the pilot decided he wanted to grab a (very) early lunch, parked the plane for an hour, and ran down to that place where the cook has a gun. Anyway, after landing I ran around lugging my 5,000 lb luggage, got a rental car, and checked myself into the fanciest marriot in bev hills.

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The job is quit, the passport renewed, and the visa acquired. The countdown begins! T-minus 5 days until I jump head first into what will hopefully be a great experience. I am planning to use this space to keep you guys updated on my daily goings on. I won't have a digi-cam initially, but I'll try to get one as soon as possible once I settle down. This is a very surreal time for me, but I've

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