Trains, Planes and Hookers

Well, I've almost been in LA for a week.

Wow, it's so weird to even type that. Here's what's been going on so far:

- Officially arrived in Burbank last Wednesday circa 10:00pm

- Thursday, I went downtown with Leah and checked out the happenings of Bottega Louie and got a full-time job in the marketplace.

- Friday: walked around Hollywood...obtained a bus pass, figured out the transit system, got lost a bunch, looked at two lofts (one of them having much potential), my phone died, I took the wrong buses, walked over five miles and eventually got home 7 hours later.

- On Saturday, I sat around and watched three hours of MTV's new show: "World's Strictest Parents" with Brian. (Highly recommended) My whole abdominal and everything below was sore, gah. I also watched two Lifetime movies. One of them starred Candance Cameron (DJ Tanner) and Fred Savage (Kevin Arnold). Fred Savage is SO CUTE. He reminds me of my old campus crush. But in the movie, he ends up being an abusive boyfriend to Candace. LAME (yet still entertaining)

- Sunday: walked to Hollywood to get a weeklong bus pass, but the place ended up being closed. On my way there, there was some sort of parade going on with a bunch of hispanic people, loud music and beauty pageant crowns. It looked pretty fun. So I waited for the #10 bus and took it to a train and rode on down to the downtown. When I got there, I looked at a few more lofts, but the offices were closed, ugh Sunday. Eventually made it home (only getting lost once and limiting my iPhone usage so it didn't die). Watched the VMAs.

VMAs Sidenote: AWESOME. Best VMAs I've seen since *NSYNC and Britney collaborated with that silly classroom dance scene. Russell Brand is pretty okay, he grows on you. He's more Joyce's type, though. I'm not really into the Kid-Rock-look-type (lol sorry Joyce). I'm more into clean, nerdy, weirdos (lol sorry Kenny). Kanye: lol/how dare you. Taylor Swift's performance was pretty cool, but couldn't hold a candle to Lady GaGa. Man. Talk about a freak-a-leak. She's pretty fabulous and that blood thing was SO NUTS. She's def a gem.

- Monday: first day of work. It was alright. I felt lame because I didn't know how to tie a tie. Ignacio helped me. He's this really cute, nice guy. I also am ashamed at how little I know about foods. Baguettes, macarons, other...fancy terms for yummy desserts. The packaging design of everything is to drool for, though. Can't wait to start making my transition to the Creative Team. I got off work around 8p, waited for my bus for about 46 minutes. I talked to a nice filipina about Los Angeles and her eight kids. Also, I'm pretty sure I was standing next to a hooker. Some guy that I crossed the street with asked me if I was "into movies." I said no but he proceeded to show me these pirated DVDs of Dirty Dancing. Too soon, man, too soon.

Patrick "Crazy-for" Swayze sidenote: Though everyone remembers him from Dirty Dancing and Road House, I remember him most on Point Break.

- Tuesday (today): Lunch with my gurl Lyndsey (hopefully I can convince her to head to In & Out...I haven't had it yet! Fail, I know). Hopefully some errands and resting up for more work this week.

Now on a serious note: I'm feeling ok about being here. It's lonely though I'm surrounded my people all the time. It's just that I'm not used to not having my best friends in such close proximity. I know that Amber is just a text message away, same with Joyce and Ash...but still, it's not the same. I'm happy that Kenny's trying to make the distance work, but I am just so pessimistic about the whole thing. It's just, I feel that everyone's lives are just going on without a second glance back at me. The worst thing is to be forgotten. I know that it's not going to be easy, and that the opportunity I have here is great, but it would be greater if I could have everyone I love here with me, too. But I know that's selfish. So for now, I'll live vicariously through my iTunes mixes (sorry Ash, I took that from you) and hope for the best.

- J.