not to be an asshole, but: I couldn't have picked a better week to go to LA if I'd tried. I flew out at noon on Saturday, just in time to miss the snow-turned-rain-turned-ice hellscape that Boston/New England became.

E & I got an Airbnb in Hollywood (funny story about that later) and did some touristy things and some bumming around, which was perfect. I showed her a bunch of BuzzFeed Unsolved because I'm super predictable. She got me to watch the first two episodes of Sex Education, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Also, I mean, Gillian Anderson, c'mon.

We went to the Santa Monica Pier early Sunday morning, which I'd never been to, and then spent Monday morning at Universal Studios (but really at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter; we did a quick loop of the rest of the park, but Harry Potter was the only real reason we were there). I dropped her off at the airport yesterday morning (she didn't have enough vacation time to take the entire week off), and now I'm at Alex and Alex's place until Saturday.

THIS WAS NOT PLANNED: Sooooooo, after we left Universal, we went downtown because E wanted to see the upstairs of The Last Bookstore (she missed it the last time she'd been), and I was about to keel over from exhaustion, so I plopped down in one of the chairs and dicked around on the internet while waiting for her. I then had the brilliant idea to look up where the BuzzFeed office was, mostly for curiosity's sake, and it turned out that it was TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM OUR AIRBNB. I may have died a little bit inside.

So, I am now unintentionally and uncomfortably familiar with the area immediately surrounding the BuzzFeed office. Ha ha ha, I definitely won't be using this knowledge for fic purposes.