I am trying to get a password for Westside Rentals, a major apartment rental agency here. You buy the access to their listings for a limited time. Some people sell it reduced after they found a place within a short time, so there is still most of the total time left they paid for. I contacted a woman who wants to transfer hers and she asked me to meet her in Sherman Oaks, where she works. After I explained her that I am in Palms, far away from Sherman Oaks and that I have nothing to do there, she thought I could meet her in Hollywood, where she lives, I guess. So I was wondering why she didn’t look for a place in Sherman Oaks since she was moving? I would never move to Hollywood and working in Sherman Oaks. A commuting nightmare. She Asked me when it is a good time in the morning for me. She would get up at 6am…Talking to her I just realized that she has totally different habits regarding commuting than me. These days I cross the Hollywood Freeway twice a day. Both times, morning and evening, traffic jammed. Some people endure this every day, twice. I think you can only do it if you don’t know anything else, it’s part of your live.

The apartment search itself seems to e very painful. I thought I would move closer to the office to reduce my commuting time. But all I saw so far was compared to what I have now smaller and more expensive. I don’t think I am able to get used to the idea of paying more for less, despite the location. Today after wasting a lot of frustrating apartment search time I thought maybe I should stay where I am, a location between the office and the site of the project I am working on.