A Man Humping A Parking Meter? Go On...

Man.

Do I have stories for you guys.

LA is definitely a...let's say 'colorful' town. In all honesty, it has this unashamed gaudiness that makes it charming, like how a guy who is clearly hitting on you can make you grin and laugh anyway. One block to the next literally can go from swank to the point of gagging to decrepit, and the world seems to whiz by at a strangely laid back pace. I really don't know what to make of it yet.

Anyway, today was move-in day. I got my key early and claimed the bottom bunk, because the other two are top ones. When I got here this morning, I saw Wendy had claimed the top one that had the couch under it, which left the new roommate that appeared in our text messages yesterday, with the one over me. Pictures will follow soon.

My boxes didn't come today because I guess FedEx and UPS doesn't deliver here on weekends. Nice to know. That left me with no sheets, pillows, hangers, towels, etc. What does this mean? And adventure to Bed Bath and Beyond, of course! It's the only thing that sells stuff like that in walking distance. I now am furnished with the amenities, along with a cute set of storage cube/ottoman things to serve as my nightstand. Pet was worried I was going to be attacked by a man with a chimp (she actually said 'a shiv' but that is SO not what I heard,) but I managed to get there and back unscathed.

AMDA wasn't joking about being right where the Hollywood Walk of Fame starts, either. You cross the street at the Vine intersection and there it is, big as life. I read them off as I walked to the store and it's so cool to me that they have people like Johnny Depp next to Stepin Fetchit. I walked besides the stars too instead of on them, because...I don't know, it just seemed weird. The two that made we stop were Cyd Cherise and George Carlin.

So far I have seen the outsides of Graumann's Chinese Theater, the Kodak Theater, The Hollywood Bowl and the Pantages Theater. I'll be returning to those and the Walk of Fame to do touristy squee-erificness with a camera soon.

After my adventures in towel-buying, I got some chinese from a little chinese food/donut shop for dinner (yes, I said that, let it sink in...) and headed on home. This is when I saw "The Man."

I will call him "The Man" solely because it amuses me. The Man, if you were wondering, was across the street from the chinese place, in the middle of the block...humping a parking meter. And trying to be inconspicuous about it.

When he thought no one was looking (because who would look at a dude in the middle of the sidewalk humping a parking meter?) He looked like he was either trying to bang the shit out of his skull on the thing or rip the whole meter out of the ground on crotch power alone. But as soon as he thought someone was looking, he'd promptly stop and act as if he was just hugging the parking meter in a death grip, as if it was going to float away at any second. It was...special.

As for last night, I hung out with a friend of a friend who is getting her Masters in Film at UCLA and got a little drunk before some Wii fun. Drunken Wii FTW!!! I sucked mostly, but that's ok. I would have probably sucked sober, too.

So tonight I am all alone - enjoying this big dorm all to myself while my roomies are off with their boyfriends' apartments. Does it make me miss Casey like all hell? God yes. *bangs head on the walll* GOD yes. Seeing them with their boys and the unsteady feeling of going to a whole new state makes me want nothing more than Casey here to curl up with and make me forget I'm thousands of miles away from all I know on a lil twin bed.

*sigh* I'm run down and getting sleepy, and I have orientation in the morning. I better get to bed. The nervous are FLYIN' yall, haha. *breathes* Tomorrow I get my schedule and I might try calling my friend/ex-vocal coach/current faculty member Scott to see if he wants to meet up and do something. I kind of need to talk to him - he's always got a no nonsense view of things and does Not sugarcoat things. He doesn't believe in it. But he'll be able to talk me off of any upcoming ledges and if he didn't think it was a good idea for me to be doing this, he would have told me to stay at home.

It's just the more sparkingly beautiful people I see and the more I hear about all the professional, real world experience people have under their belts here, it makes me more and more uneasy.

Well, emo aside, I hope you are all having a good weekend and like I said, I will post pictures soon. May you all sleep well tonight, with visions of meter-humpers dancing through your head.