So I missed out on going to a taping of Jeopardy. I felt a little left out--damn this whole working nonsense! I've never been to a taping before. But I guess I live here now, so I'm sure I'll make it to some show eventually. I'd like to go to a taping of Joey, since I never got to go to a taping of Friends or Seinfeld.


I spend 10 hours a week in traffic. I am not exaggerating. Oh okay, maybe I am. It only took me 53 minutes to drive into work this morning, but last night it took me 76 minutes to get home, so really it all averages out to about 2 hours day to drive 34 miles (round trip)... In one year, 52 weeks of driving, that is 520 hours of traffic. That translates to about 22 days of my life spent in traffic. The average commuter in Los Angeles, according by the report on MSNBC, spends 93 hours in traffic. I feel really jipped. I am going to spend about 5 times as much, uh, time, on the road than other Los Angeles dwellers.


I find this infinitely depressing.


We really need to move closer to my job. I don't want to waste nearly a month of my life in the parking lot known as the 405.


Although, I must say I am enjoying the books on tape (well really CD) I borrowed from the library. It's keeping me amused. Better than the radio, anyway. L.A. may be huge, and have a pleathora of radio stations to choose from, but I hate them all.


The books on tape serve as a constant reminder of much I'm in the car. Last week, I went through two books, one was over six hours long and the other was over four hours long. I'm currently listening to the unabridged Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, and the narrator is actually really good (not as good as Tim Curry in my opinion, but still good), and this one is over 8 hours long... It's Thursday and I'm on disc 6 (of 8) already. I guess I'm right on track as far as ratios are concerned, hours of driving : hours of books on CD.


But it's still depressing.


I'll tell ya man... as much as I love my apartment in the Valley, I think when the lease is up in November we're moving closer to my job.

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