Happy Friday!
Well, my first week at my new job is over, and I can tell you I have learned quite a few things already.
For example:
1) Driving a car with manual transmission in Los Angeles traffic should be outlawed. Honestly, I probably ought to be fined for exacting cruel and unusual punishment on myself.
2) A vending machine where everything is .25 is pretty cool. Too cool. I am eating way more junk than I have in a long time. Today I bought Hostess Cupcakes from the machine, which seems strange. Is that something you normally see in a vending machine? I never really patronized vending machines much (except for sodas), so I don't know.
(What I do know is that the cupcakes didn't taste nearly as good as I remembered from when I was a kid. Sigh...)
3) Being a proofreader suits me a little too well; I like finding other people's mistakes and correcting them brightly in red pen. This seems unfortunate, pointing to either a deep-seated nerdiness or a strongly rooted sense of egotistical superiority. Maybe both. Yikes.
(Add them to the list of reasons why the frogg is still single...what are we up to now? #385?)
4) People in LA have elevated bad driving to an art form. They make me crazy. Worse, they make me look crazy, because I start talking at them, and since I am alone in my car, I look like I'm talking to myself, and not very nicely at that.
(Yesterday a man had the nerve to ask--in an incredibly whiny voice, I might add--what I was doing, not letting him make a left turn across a double-yellow line and three lanes of stopped traffic so he could get into his driveway! Gah!
5) The Hollywood sign was built in 1923, as part of a publicity stunt by a guy named Mark Sennet, who was seeking to draw people to the Hollywoodland subdivision in Beachwood Canyon.
I learned this because I was having a slow day yesterday and because I have an office that has a balcony. What this means is that I went out on the balcony to kill some time and watch the hustle and bustle of Wilshire Blvd, when I happened to look to the left and saw the Hollywood sign on the nearby mountains. So then I started wondering, who on earth came up with that idea in the first place? I mean the idea for the sign. Thank God for the Internet...my voracious curiosity was assuaged! (I also learned that Marilyn Munroe is one of several celebrities who haunts the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Bet you didn't know that!)
Oh, I guess I also learned some things about my job, but mostly it was all this other stuff.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
PS You will thank me for the Hollywood trivia someday, even if you are laughing at me about it now. Trust me--when a band of roving, blood-thirsty pirates captures you and demands to know when the Hollywood sign was built or else you will have to walk the plank, you will be very relieved that you read this blog.
For example:
1) Driving a car with manual transmission in Los Angeles traffic should be outlawed. Honestly, I probably ought to be fined for exacting cruel and unusual punishment on myself.
2) A vending machine where everything is .25 is pretty cool. Too cool. I am eating way more junk than I have in a long time. Today I bought Hostess Cupcakes from the machine, which seems strange. Is that something you normally see in a vending machine? I never really patronized vending machines much (except for sodas), so I don't know.
(What I do know is that the cupcakes didn't taste nearly as good as I remembered from when I was a kid. Sigh...)
3) Being a proofreader suits me a little too well; I like finding other people's mistakes and correcting them brightly in red pen. This seems unfortunate, pointing to either a deep-seated nerdiness or a strongly rooted sense of egotistical superiority. Maybe both. Yikes.
(Add them to the list of reasons why the frogg is still single...what are we up to now? #385?)
4) People in LA have elevated bad driving to an art form. They make me crazy. Worse, they make me look crazy, because I start talking at them, and since I am alone in my car, I look like I'm talking to myself, and not very nicely at that.
(Yesterday a man had the nerve to ask--in an incredibly whiny voice, I might add--what I was doing, not letting him make a left turn across a double-yellow line and three lanes of stopped traffic so he could get into his driveway! Gah!
5) The Hollywood sign was built in 1923, as part of a publicity stunt by a guy named Mark Sennet, who was seeking to draw people to the Hollywoodland subdivision in Beachwood Canyon.
I learned this because I was having a slow day yesterday and because I have an office that has a balcony. What this means is that I went out on the balcony to kill some time and watch the hustle and bustle of Wilshire Blvd, when I happened to look to the left and saw the Hollywood sign on the nearby mountains. So then I started wondering, who on earth came up with that idea in the first place? I mean the idea for the sign. Thank God for the Internet...my voracious curiosity was assuaged! (I also learned that Marilyn Munroe is one of several celebrities who haunts the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Bet you didn't know that!)
Oh, I guess I also learned some things about my job, but mostly it was all this other stuff.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
PS You will thank me for the Hollywood trivia someday, even if you are laughing at me about it now. Trust me--when a band of roving, blood-thirsty pirates captures you and demands to know when the Hollywood sign was built or else you will have to walk the plank, you will be very relieved that you read this blog.
posted by grackyfrogg @ 4:45 PM
3 Comments:
At 4:13 AM ,
Anonymous said...
pretend this is in red....Monroe, not Munroe...
At 10:47 PM ,
becca said...
wow... i thought about correcting you too, but mine definitely would have sounded nicer. As one of my friends told me today, I really know how to sugarcoat things. :)
And... I really am so glad to know these things, it always makes me feel better about bay area traffic when I hear about LA traffic. ;) Oh, and hostess cupcake huh? Have you taken your tempurature lately? That just doesn't sound right, gracky purchasing a 25 cent cupcake...
At 3:10 AM ,
grackyfrogg said...
wow, anon, i feel a LOT less superior now! thanks!
oh becca, bay area traffic has nothing on LA. cuz see at least you can predict where it will happen; i mean there are reasons for it at certain times: the caldecott tunnel at rush hour, the bay bridge toll plaza, etc. here, it's just all the time on certain freeways--meaning most of them. sigh...
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