{"id":220,"date":"2008-05-28T11:07:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=220"},"modified":"2008-05-28T11:07:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:07:36","slug":"sketch-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2008\/05\/sketch-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are going pretty well these days.&nbsp; I&#8217;m really happy with my job at the coffee shop.&nbsp; I&#8217;m really happy with my new apartment and roommate.&nbsp; Mainly, I&#8217;m just pretty happy at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday I saw the new Indiana Jones movie.&nbsp; I won&#8217;t say much about the movie, but its Indy and cheesy&#8230;but fun.&nbsp; I met up with a bunch of people I didn&#8217;t know to see the movie.&nbsp; My connection was the friend of one of my old middle\/high school friends.&nbsp; We met at a restaurant called the Hungry Cat, which is right around the corner from the Arclight.&nbsp; I only had a cocktail, which was good, but also $12.&nbsp; Welcome to Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was a pretty lazy day.&nbsp; I did some reading, watched a movie at home, and pretty much nothing else.&nbsp; Sunday was more of the same, except for church and buying groceries.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been going to this new service at church.&nbsp; It&#8217;s cool, its an alternative eucharist, that looks nothing like the service from the prayer book.&nbsp; I like the service itself, and the people leading it, but&#8230;I think I realized whats been missing for me at Beverly Hills.&nbsp; I just don&#8217;t feel connected to the church community.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure some of that is my own fault (and how busy I was during the school year), but still its just not working for me at the moment.&nbsp; I&#8217;m thinking that I&#8217;m going to check out Pasadena sometime soon.&nbsp; Since I already have some friends going there, maybe I&#8217;ll be able to connect easier.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was a pretty full day.&nbsp; I walked over to Sunset and Vine to have a late brunch with a friend.&nbsp; It took about a half hour, a doable walk, but probably better as a bike ride.&nbsp; We went to The Waffle, a newish upscale diner.&nbsp; I wasn&#8217;t really that impressed.&nbsp; The staff\/management wasn&#8217;t prepared for a busy day (it was Memorial Day), so they were all a little frazzled.&nbsp; The waffles weren&#8217;t that exciting and the portions were pretty small for being over $10.&nbsp; If they had been in the $5-7 range, it would have been ok.&nbsp; After, brunch I went to the beach for a little bit to read.&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t end up staying terribly long, because it was pretty windy and the tempature started dropping after 5pm.&nbsp; Later on, a friend came over to see the new apartment.&nbsp; We hung out and watched movies and drank wine.&nbsp; It was nice and relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was pretty excited to be able to work.&nbsp; I know&#8230;crazy&#8230;I was excited to work.&nbsp; While I was at work, my roommate texted and let me know she was having some folks over for dinner and asked if I wanted to join.&nbsp; So our first dinner party happened pretty impromtu like.&nbsp; It was great.&nbsp; Good food, good conversations, good time (and yes more wine).&nbsp; One of the guys who stopped by was a professional hula hooper.&nbsp; Now that is a niche job.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention that I&#8217;m happy? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are going pretty well these days.&nbsp; I&#8217;m really happy with my job at the coffee shop.&nbsp; I&#8217;m really happy with my new apartment and roommate.&nbsp; Mainly, I&#8217;m just pretty happy at the moment. 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