L.A. Traffic!

I finally got the internet hooked up in the apartment, so that makes me happy. I also managed to set up the wireless router and it seems to be working, so I am doubly pleased with myself. But that was the last thing I did today. I spent most of the day re-cleaning the apartment; I exterminated dirt with extreme prejudice! After I finished with the kitchen I moved on to the floor, which I have concluded is hopeless. I know how lame it sounds to be proud of a cleaning job, but it's all I have to apply myself to right now, and darn it if I'm not going to do it to the best of my ability.

The power went out at the apartment today, and it spooked me a little. I started thinking that a earthquake, which hadn't reached me yet, had knocked out the power lines. That turned out to not be the case, but some traffic signals were out of commission when I went to Pick Katie up from her internship. One was at an intersection which is comparable to 66th street and Tyrone Blvd. in St. Petersburg. Even though it was rush hour, everyone treated the broken traffic light as a four way stop, just like they're supposed to. In New York, no one pays any attention to traffic lights any way, so that fact that one might malfunction usually goes wholly unnoticed by the motoring public at large. In St. Petersburg, outted lights result in temporary anarchy, not unlike a kindergarten class when the teacher steps out for a minute. But here in L.A., where conventional traffic rules are routinely disposed of, they seem to follow the more obscure rules, and I was thrilled to see it.

One more note about L.A.: there's a radio station out here, Indie 103.1 that plays an imaginative blend of new music and stuff from some upstart bands, and just a little bit of stuff remixed by DJ. They played something the other day where a DJ took words from some of Dubya's speeches and pieced them together to make U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and called it "Sunday Dubya Sunday." It made me laugh pretty hard! For now, I have to go because the girls have decided that we will all watch "The Real World" and eat ice cream. I'm not much for the show, but I can't pass up ice cream!