Commute to School - 10 minute walk from my apartment across the commons
Commute to Work - 15 minute drive from my apartment across the 10 Freeway
Trip for Cafe Podema (Frozen Yogurt) - 3 minute walk around the corner from my aparment
Trip to Yogurtland (Fresh Vegetables) - 5 minute drive up La Brea from my apartment
Frantic Trip(s) to Mass General Hospital - 10/7/3 minute walk/jog/sprint to ER
Frantic Trip to Cedar Sinai Hospital - 15/15/15 minute Sunday stroll/drive/race to ER
Those are just a few examples of the relative distances I speak of. I just included the essentials, in their order of importance. The last one - the driving style doesn't matter where traffic is involved in Los Angeles.
Let's take a look at the bigger picture.
Exhibit A:
This is Boston proper. Daily business was conducted more or less in this area. I even included part of Cambridge for good measure. I lived in the area marked Beacon Hill with Mahri. Gas lamps, cobblestones and little shops everywhere. I miss it.Exhibit B
This is the Greater Los Angeles area. Daily business can be conducted anywhere on this map. You never know where the day's work will take you. Assistant runs at work, weekend gigs on set, auditioning and the like - it's all fair game. If you can make it out, I live right next to that red dot north of the 10, South of the 101, East of the 405 and West of the 110. Good, you'll never figure that one out.
So what does this lesson teach us? What the hell were we thinking in Boston? Remember all those times that we were too lazy to take the 15 minutes commute to a show in Cambridge. Or a 10 minute walk back to school because you left your cell phone in the computer lab was a hassle? Or how about whining that someone lives in Coolidge Corner?! How lame to use distance as an excuse for not seeing friends while living in Boston. I guess, for that, I'm sorry.
I miss that Boston geographic scale. I remember leaving the city for breaks and vacations, how strange it was to look in the rear view mirror and see my little bubble of a city disappear into the horizon. Everything I needed was in this little microcosm. Now, that perspective is from a window seat of a Delta flight. As the plane swings over the coastline and turns back East, back to what used to be home, this perspective becomes more and more familiar. My perspectives are shifting constantly, but it's only every now and then that I am aware of the subconscious realignment. I miss Boston, but now, I'd also miss LA - I'd miss it a very great deal.
Oh, I almost forgot a crucial part to this lesson. What about the perspective and relative geography of my childhood? Here's that map.
This is the Greater Los Angeles area. Daily business can be conducted anywhere on this map. You never know where the day's work will take you. Assistant runs at work, weekend gigs on set, auditioning and the like - it's all fair game. If you can make it out, I live right next to that red dot north of the 10, South of the 101, East of the 405 and West of the 110. Good, you'll never figure that one out.
So what does this lesson teach us? What the hell were we thinking in Boston? Remember all those times that we were too lazy to take the 15 minutes commute to a show in Cambridge. Or a 10 minute walk back to school because you left your cell phone in the computer lab was a hassle? Or how about whining that someone lives in Coolidge Corner?! How lame to use distance as an excuse for not seeing friends while living in Boston. I guess, for that, I'm sorry.
I miss that Boston geographic scale. I remember leaving the city for breaks and vacations, how strange it was to look in the rear view mirror and see my little bubble of a city disappear into the horizon. Everything I needed was in this little microcosm. Now, that perspective is from a window seat of a Delta flight. As the plane swings over the coastline and turns back East, back to what used to be home, this perspective becomes more and more familiar. My perspectives are shifting constantly, but it's only every now and then that I am aware of the subconscious realignment. I miss Boston, but now, I'd also miss LA - I'd miss it a very great deal.
Oh, I almost forgot a crucial part to this lesson. What about the perspective and relative geography of my childhood? Here's that map.
Exhibit C
The King of Prussia Mall.THE END.
3 Thoughts:
So I was talking to Natalie today about Boston and Los Angeles and it suddenly hit me: A 20 minute drive in Los Angeles is equivalent to a 20 minutes walk in Boston. Am I so jaded that I completely forgot that while living in Boston, I was within a 20 minutes walk of almost anything I needed? Let's compare:
Commute to School - 10 minute walk from my apartment across the commons
Commute to Work - 15 minute drive from my apartment across the 10 Freeway
Trip for Cafe Podema (Frozen Yogurt) - 3 minute walk around the corner from my aparment
Trip to Yogurtland (Fresh Vegetables) - 5 minute drive up La Brea from my apartment
Frantic Trip(s) to Mass General Hospital - 10/7/3 minute walk/jog/sprint to ER
Frantic Trip to Cedar Sinai Hospital - 15/15/15 minute Sunday stroll/drive/race to ER
Those are just a few examples of the relative distances I speak of. I just included the essentials, in their order of importance. The last one - the driving style doesn't matter where traffic is involved in Los Angeles.
Let's take a look at the bigger picture.
This is the Greater Los Angeles area. Daily business can be conducted anywhere on this map. You never know where the day's work will take you. Assistant runs at work, weekend gigs on set, auditioning and the like - it's all fair game. If you can make it out, I live right next to that red dot north of the 10, South of the 101, East of the 405 and West of the 110. Good, you'll never figure that one out.
So what does this lesson teach us? What the hell were we thinking in Boston? Remember all those times that we were too lazy to take the 15 minutes commute to a show in Cambridge. Or a 10 minute walk back to school because you left your cell phone in the computer lab was a hassle? Or how about whining that someone lives in Coolidge Corner?! How lame to use distance as an excuse for not seeing friends while living in Boston. I guess, for that, I'm sorry.
I miss that Boston geographic scale. I remember leaving the city for breaks and vacations, how strange it was to look in the rear view mirror and see my little bubble of a city disappear into the horizon. Everything I needed was in this little microcosm. Now, that perspective is from a window seat of a Delta flight. As the plane swings over the coastline and turns back East, back to what used to be home, this perspective becomes more and more familiar. My perspectives are shifting constantly, but it's only every now and then that I am aware of the subconscious realignment. I miss Boston, but now, I'd also miss LA - I'd miss it a very great deal.
Oh, I almost forgot a crucial part to this lesson. What about the perspective and relative geography of my childhood? Here's that map.
So I was talking to Natalie today about Boston and Los Angeles and it suddenly hit me: A 20 minute drive in Los Angeles is equivalent to a 20 minutes walk in Boston. Am I so jaded that I completely forgot that while living in Boston, I was within a 20 minutes walk of almost anything I needed? Let's compare:
Commute to School - 10 minute walk from my apartment across the commons
Commute to Work - 15 minute drive from my apartment across the 10 Freeway
Trip for Cafe Podema (Frozen Yogurt) - 3 minute walk around the corner from my aparment
Trip to Yogurtland (Fresh Vegetables) - 5 minute drive up La Brea from my apartment
Frantic Trip(s) to Mass General Hospital - 10/7/3 minute walk/jog/sprint to ER
Frantic Trip to Cedar Sinai Hospital - 15/15/15 minute Sunday stroll/drive/race to ER
Those are just a few examples of the relative distances I speak of. I just included the essentials, in their order of importance. The last one - the driving style doesn't matter where traffic is involved in Los Angeles.
Let's take a look at the bigger picture.
This is the Greater Los Angeles area. Daily business can be conducted anywhere on this map. You never know where the day's work will take you. Assistant runs at work, weekend gigs on set, auditioning and the like - it's all fair game. If you can make it out, I live right next to that red dot north of the 10, South of the 101, East of the 405 and West of the 110. Good, you'll never figure that one out.
So what does this lesson teach us? What the hell were we thinking in Boston? Remember all those times that we were too lazy to take the 15 minutes commute to a show in Cambridge. Or a 10 minute walk back to school because you left your cell phone in the computer lab was a hassle? Or how about whining that someone lives in Coolidge Corner?! How lame to use distance as an excuse for not seeing friends while living in Boston. I guess, for that, I'm sorry.
I miss that Boston geographic scale. I remember leaving the city for breaks and vacations, how strange it was to look in the rear view mirror and see my little bubble of a city disappear into the horizon. Everything I needed was in this little microcosm. Now, that perspective is from a window seat of a Delta flight. As the plane swings over the coastline and turns back East, back to what used to be home, this perspective becomes more and more familiar. My perspectives are shifting constantly, but it's only every now and then that I am aware of the subconscious realignment. I miss Boston, but now, I'd also miss LA - I'd miss it a very great deal.
Oh, I almost forgot a crucial part to this lesson. What about the perspective and relative geography of my childhood? Here's that map.
So I was talking to Natalie today about Boston and Los Angeles and it suddenly hit me: A 20 minute drive in Los Angeles is equivalent to a 20 minutes walk in Boston. Am I so jaded that I completely forgot that while living in Boston, I was within a 20 minutes walk of almost anything I needed? Let's compare:
Commute to School - 10 minute walk from my apartment across the commons
Commute to Work - 15 minute drive from my apartment across the 10 Freeway
Trip for Cafe Podema (Frozen Yogurt) - 3 minute walk around the corner from my aparment
Trip to Yogurtland (Fresh Vegetables) - 5 minute drive up La Brea from my apartment
Frantic Trip(s) to Mass General Hospital - 10/7/3 minute walk/jog/sprint to ER
Frantic Trip to Cedar Sinai Hospital - 15/15/15 minute Sunday stroll/drive/race to ER
Those are just a few examples of the relative distances I speak of. I just included the essentials, in their order of importance. The last one - the driving style doesn't matter where traffic is involved in Los Angeles.
Let's take a look at the bigger picture.
This is the Greater Los Angeles area. Daily business can be conducted anywhere on this map. You never know where the day's work will take you. Assistant runs at work, weekend gigs on set, auditioning and the like - it's all fair game. If you can make it out, I live right next to that red dot north of the 10, South of the 101, East of the 405 and West of the 110. Good, you'll never figure that one out.
So what does this lesson teach us? What the hell were we thinking in Boston? Remember all those times that we were too lazy to take the 15 minutes commute to a show in Cambridge. Or a 10 minute walk back to school because you left your cell phone in the computer lab was a hassle? Or how about whining that someone lives in Coolidge Corner?! How lame to use distance as an excuse for not seeing friends while living in Boston. I guess, for that, I'm sorry.
I miss that Boston geographic scale. I remember leaving the city for breaks and vacations, how strange it was to look in the rear view mirror and see my little bubble of a city disappear into the horizon. Everything I needed was in this little microcosm. Now, that perspective is from a window seat of a Delta flight. As the plane swings over the coastline and turns back East, back to what used to be home, this perspective becomes more and more familiar. My perspectives are shifting constantly, but it's only every now and then that I am aware of the subconscious realignment. I miss Boston, but now, I'd also miss LA - I'd miss it a very great deal.
Oh, I almost forgot a crucial part to this lesson. What about the perspective and relative geography of my childhood? Here's that map.
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