09 Jul Cali Blog #7: Pool Time and Arguments

After staying up and editing photos, I woke up late. 10 AM! I am so used to waking up at around 7 or 8 in the morning that I can definitely tell vacation is getting to me. Vivi and I had originally planned to get up early and do our graffiti photo shoot, but that obviously did not happen.

I woke up with two sleeping puppies, Leo and Atty snuggled with me in my bed. Cute. The morning consisted of working and then heading off to enjoy a nice brunch with Shannon and Vivi at the 5 Cent Diner, walking of course, since we still had no car. Note: I took some pictures, but they did not turn out well, but I still wanted to put them in…

Shannon is awesome. I met her through a previous short film set and she has been my go-to sound engineer ever since. We ate amazingly good food, probably too much of it, caught up on girly talk, and then went back to the apartment.

One of the nicest things about Vivi and Eric’s place is the fantabulous roof top pool, which we made use of upon our return. A little pool time and then we transitioned to Eric’s other roof top area, which had shaded seats that allowed us to work for a good 2 hours. I focused on writing my feature and Vivi worked on her own writing projects. We returned to the apartment briefly so that I could have a conference call with Drastik and their manager and David Anderson to finalize the storyboard for the animated music video. Let me just say, this music video is going to be SICK!

Eric got back around dinner time, just in time to grill some awesome food for us. We ate that on the roof overlooking downtown LA and then spent the rest of the night writing, working, and relaxing. Overall a nice day.

Nic and I argued via text late at night about who was right and not right about the previous night. First of all, I hate arguments and they are the worst via text messaging because of the lack of context. He is angry that I insinuated his flakiness. I am angry for him for leaving us stranded, which he says he did not say he would pick us up… he said you said, we said…long story short, the argument ended without much of a conclusion and only left me feeling sad and crappy.

At this point, I really just want to say truce and forget about the whole thing. I mean seriously, I only have a few days left in LA, the last thing I want to do is spend the last few day being angry at each other. And even if I were not leaving, the argument seems fairly inconsequential at this moment. The party is already over and the damage has been done whether purposely or not. Whatever! I hate fighting… but are friendships strengthened by them? What do you do when both people don’t think they are at fault?

Nic, if you are reading this… consider this my public truce. Thank you for inviting us to the party. Sorry it got complicated and things did not work out right. I still love ya even if you suck sometimes. But hell, I suck too.

I don’t know if we have any plans tomorrow… maybe the beach?

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