Backtrack.

Arrived Sunday, September 6, and stayed at Jocelyn's apartment at USC until Tuesday afternoon. USC is beautiful and a lot different from Emerson, so that was interesting. My car battery died, so one of Joce's roommates helped me jump start it and I made to to the Oakwood Apartments, where we're staying for the semester. Technically, this is still Los Angeles, but we're two seconds away from Burbank. The WB studios are right down the street. The apartments are great, nice and big with air conditioning (obviously), two pools, tennis courts, a beach volleyball court, and technically this is a gated community. So I feel like a spoiled brat, which is nice.

CVS sells alcohol.

The light switches at Oakwood are all waist high, and most of the outlits are an inch off the floor and flipped horizontal. My bed folds out of the wall and there's a mirror on the non-bed side.

The traffic is only bad in the sense that there are red lights every two blocks. They're not synced very well, and you can't block intersections, so it's possible to sit through a red light, a green light, and another red light before being able to move. Annoying. Sony is 12 miles away and it takes over an hour to get there.

Hollywood is interesting, would never live there. Santa Monica is gorgeous. Pasadena is beautiful. Love Burbank.