Yay! LA!

Lest you think I sit around sobbing about my impending move all the time, here's a list of all the good LA stuff I've been thinking about (in no particular order):
1. The weather
2. The beach. Matador, specifically
3. In N Out Burger (protein style!)
4. Palm trees
5. My brother
6. Jack in the Box commercials
7. Being able to buy liquor (not just beer and wine) in the grocery store
8. Being able to buy any alcohol on Sunday
9. The preponderance of dive bars
10. My friends
11. The sausage platter at the Red Lion
12. Every movie I ever want to see is actually available for viewing in a theater somewhere
13. AMAZING MEXICAN FOOD
14. Much less segregation
15. Latin people
16. The possibility that I may be able to make some furniture at my friend Mel's carpentry studio
17. Downtown
18. A real job
19. LA Times Sunday crossword
20. The occasional celebrity sighting (not the ones you read about in the blogs)
21. Real news and good music on NPR
22. The sunsets

There are a lot more that I've thought about that aren't coming to me at the moment. I'll keep adding on.

It is Insanely Hot

Hotlanta has really been living up to its name recently. The other night I came home from work at 11:30 p.m. and it was 89 degrees outside! No sun, but still 89! It's 5:30 p.m. now, but "feels like 104." Tomorrow's forecast says it's going to be 102. Went to a friend's pool to cool off yesterday to no avail because the pool was hot. Not warm, hot. Almost body temperature I would say. It's pretty overwhelming and entirely unpleasant.

The good news is that I am moving. I have mixed feelings about the move because I will miss a lot of people dearly and dear people a lot, but Atlanta will be dead to me climate-wise. Good riddance! I'm headed back to Los Angeles.

You know you live somewhere ridiculously hot when moving to the desert is a huge relief.