Roots--Green and Otherwise

I learned several things this past week:

1. It's exhausting driving parents around. It's tiring enough driving in Los Angeles on any given day, but it's compounded when you have to drive two small-town people around the big city, particularly because their sense of time in relation to distance doesn't apply to LA. Destinations that are five miles away from my apartment can take up to an hour to reach, whereas at home, it would take about five minutes. My parents visited last weekend, and, apart from the driving, it was nice, because I hadn't seen them since May. It was a fairly chill trip; we went to the Grammy Museum and a sports photography exhibit at the Annenberg Space in the CAA building, both of which were interesting.

2. Going out in Venice is awesome. I parked at my friend's apartment, and we walked to every bar and easily caught a cab at the end of the night. Although I love the bars downtown, I sometimes feel leery walking back at night, and parking, especially on a Friday, is almost out of the question. However, Venice was great; I haven't spent much time in that area of the city, but I had one of the best times going out that I've had in LA, and I'm looking forward to beach season now.

3. Asians on St. Patrick's Day go nuts. Some of the same people who went out in Venice got together at our friend's house to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Four bottles of Jameson, two "freedom style" pizzas (http://www.youtube.com/user/DrunkenChefable#p/a/u/2/vMQ8MAEUSpU), and lots of "shenanigans" and chatroulette later, the Asians brought down the house. It was low key but extremely entertaining!

4. Chatroulette is sketchy. For many reasons. A lot of my friends have gone on it when drunk for kicks, which is exactly what we did. Since it was about 3 a.m. when we were on, the only people we met were those who were too intimidated by the large amount of people in our group to..."exhibit" themselves, Turks, a Brazilian who was really into music, and frat boys from Oregon State who, ironically enough, were the only ones not to ask my friend and I to flash them.

I guess that's about it now. I'll try and formulate a more cohesive and interesting blog next week. It's been pretty fun this week since most of my friends are on spring break, but since I'm on kind of a permanent spring break, I'll be sad to see them all take up their busy schedules again come Monday.