Living in LA is Wacky
I live in West Hollywood, which is a pretty cool neighborhood to live in. I’m walking distance to the Grove shopping center, five minutes to the Beverly Center, and a little over 10 minutes from work….if there isn’t any traffic. In reality it tends to take me about 20 minutes to get to work, and 30 – 60 minutes to get home.
My neighborhood is very busy, lots of resturants and shopping, and traffic is obviously a problem.
On Wednesday, signs began going up warning of excessive traffic on Sunday – the Grove was going to be closing at four. I pretty much can’t leave my apartment if there’s going to be “excessive traffic” – god only knows what they consider “excessive,” considering what typical is (especially now that there are writers picketing outside CBS, and news crews all over the WGA office) – I finally got around to looking up what was going on today.
The Grove is having their tree-lighting ceremony, and apparently, it’s a big deal. The Goo Goo Dolls are performing, as well as Patti Labelle and a whole slew of other folks. Being able to walk to Nordstrom has always been nice, but this happening across the street is going to be sweet!
Guess I’m NOT stuck at home tomorrow night. I mean, with the traffic and all, it’s not like I can do anything else. Why not go?
I never thought it would happen, but, I’m really starting to settle in to LA. Go fig!
