In Southerm California , whenever it rains, the weather man never reports rain, we go on "Strom Watch". Today, there was a glorious day of rain! Cold, steady rain! It was sheer heaven waking up hearing it beating softly down on the rose and rosemary bushes in front of my window! But as always, traffic was a nightmare. Californians don't know how to drive in the rain so all the freeways had bumper/bumper traffic. Strom Watch indeed!
Sometimes I think a lot of the yoga teachers use their yoga class as group therapy. Once while at a Yoga Journal Conference I took a session from a very well known yoga teacher. She has become one of Yoga Journal's favorite cover girls. The woman gives a great practice once she shuts up but an hour before the practice she bored us with her version of new age wisdom and went into great details about her personal life. I learned more about her past romances and boyfriends than I know about my best gal pal who I've known since the second grade of elementary school.
If you drive by Rose Hills graveyard early in the morning or late in the afternoon you will see the deer come down from the Whittier hills and graze on the lawns or eating the flowers that people have placed on the graves. Once in a while you can see a coyote or a bobcat in the distance. It's really rather a beautiful and peaceful place to visit. I often wonder if this place is haunted but I haven't been able to discover any stories from this place. But if there is a ghost story there , I'll find it!
Whenever I see a person reading a book I have to ask them what they are reading. Today while waiting in line in front of the female bathroom at the yoga studio (there is ALWAYS a line in front of the female bathroom) I stood next to a young girl about 12 years old wearing plaid and deep red tights, she was reading a book and I asked her wat book it was. She looked up and showed me the cover . The title was "Eclipse". She told me it was a a book about a vampire, "It's a love story though, so it's okay."
Hey, did any notice that gas went up AGAIN! The cheapest I could find gas (and believe me I but cheao gas) was $3.12 a gallon! Don't you think it's odd that everytime we have a three day legal holiday weekend the price of gas strangely goes up? Talk about being rape!
Today I feel like road kill today. My back is still killing me and because of my healing ucler painkiller are off limits. So I doing Restorative Yoga, sipping herbal tea and taking long hot baths. Yesterday went to Vormans Bookstore and bought some brain candy, then stop by Carmines to watch the UCLA game. I was shocked that the bar wasn't packed. Hey, they're always packed whenever USC plays and most of the USC fans NEVER even went to USC. I'm an UCLA girl and correct me if I'm wrong but UCLA is a Southern California school; so why not cheer on the home team? I actually went to UCLA as well as a few other bar flies, but yesterday I was the only UCLA Bar Fly who was sipping on Strwaberry Margueritas cheering my old school team on! Love college football and basket ball as well. I live for March maddness!
Today the American writer Norman Mailer died. Always sadden when a literary voice is silence forever. We'll miss you.
Today's StarBucks looked like a ghost town. Usually when I walk in there to get my Grande cup of Refresh tea the place is packed with people writing a screenplay, reading a screenplay, or pitching a screenplay over their cell phones. Today only a hand full of people were in place. Another factor is that you can't help but notice how young the strikers are! No one looked over thirty! Well, the Entertainment Industry is know for being youth driven and often skilled writers are kicked to the curb once they reach forty. It's hard to feel for some young twenty year old kid, who is holding a Blackberry and got his job in the first place because some relative got him in. In a studio everyone , not only the actors but down to the grips have a relative working in the studio. I can understand their point on one end but usually when people strike it's due to fighting for Health Care, a actual living wage and safer work conditions. If you get to be a writer for a sit-con (for example) the average income is $200,000! Life if rough! Still, the studio heads should share the profits. What is interesting members of SAG can't strike but Teamsters won't cross a picket line so most productions are down.
