Ulysses Voyage

A greek/mediterranean restaurant at the grove...

Lemon grilled chicken "lemonata"

And some grilled cheese with pita that came out in flames, kinda cool...very good food, but kinda pricey

Thelma's

Lunch across the street...

Spicy Ramen noodle, $5.50

Breakfast

Mini burrito from the public works building cafeteria haha

New Series

Tonight wraps up Day 7 of A Day in the Life of REM...so what now?

For the next 7 days (Week 2), I will post pictures of everything I eat and the location. I'll do my best to pick unique places that might inspire you to try the place out. We'll see how it goes....On occassion, I will also post pictures of random observations, any cool places, etc....But for the most part, the focus will be food....food food food....

I welcome suggestions for Week 3 also.

Driving range, again

Let me clarify that i took a ball off the tee and hit it, but whenever you take a ball off the tee, a new one pops up, so that's why...haha

I joined the group

The biggest decision made at work yesterday.....beige/tan for today

Breakfast

My first time ordering a mini burrito at work...everyone always gets it

Alarm Clock

...Not necessary. Around 5 or 5:30ish, these crows go wild...

Boooooriiiing

Went to father's office again tonight but since I already had pictures of that, didn't wanna take them again...instead, a picture of the view I see whenever I take a shower before I go to sleep, Hollywood...I know, ill try to be more creative...

Gas

Well, everyone knows gas has fallen a bit, even at this La Cienega/Venice Chevron....and here's what it costs to fill up my tank

Pershing Square

Day 6 already so I guess I'm running out of unique pictures..so here's a picture of Pershing Square where I wait for my transfer bus home....what is this place? Who knows, but I think they have ice skating here in the winter

Cleaning

So every morning by the bus stop, I see these guys with a yellow cleaning cart and they've got a small sized broom and dustpan like you would use at an average size restaurant...I guess it provides a job, but does this really keep the streets of LA clean?

5 days down

Missed out on a lot of pictures today...baja fresh and swing dancing after work...sleep at 12:30....

A lucky girl would have this view from my bed, haha, hey, I have no other pictures for sleep...ill try to keep it interesting tomorrow

Green

A few of my coworkers wanted to see if anybody would notice...Big time decisions at the city offices

City Hall

At city hall for a briefing with one of the Board of Public Works Commissioners

Packing Lunch on Day 5

First time at this job that I'm packing lunch for work, leftover pizza

Wrapping up Day 4

Relaxing the rest of Sunday...pizza, watching the movie "Street Kings", and more George Lopez show at 10 before sleep...

Driving Range

Shirts

My weekly chore of ironing shirts for a whole work week

Farmer's Market

Brazillian BBQ for lunch...then a crepe from "The French Crepe Company" which by the way is owned and operated by all filipinos

Hooters

No description necessary

KooKooRoo

I always wonder how places that look like this stay in business

Couch

Is where I'll be for the next few hours...browsing the net and taking a nice nap in no particular order

Basketball and Jamba Juice

So I was half awake for basketball so I forgot to take a picture...but here's jamba juice after bball...

End of day 2

Late dinner at ihop, and finally sleep at 3:00...playing basketball at 8:00 AM

Wyclef

from 10:30 til 1...great show

House of Blues

Thanks to andrew somehow getting random free tix, at the house of blues to see Wyclef Jean...but first, some food at this trendy pizza place on Sunset

USA Basketball

Watching the USA basketball game for a bit until leaving for the House of Blues

Restituting a Worker

When a construction worker is cheated out of his wages, we do an investigation on the contractor...

After a settlement, the contractor issues checks for back wages and we distribute them to the worker...

Uncle John's

Lunch at one of my favorite little places downtown, Uncle John's on 8th street off broadway...then back to the office

Morning Day 2

Casual friday, and yet another bus ride...halfway to downtown and a packed bus

Sleep

LA Times and The George Lopez Show before goin to sleep...

Father's Office

Dinner with a friend at Father's Office...burgers are sooooooo goood...nice dinner and conversation too

Check out the new location at Venice and Helms

Driving

So even though I took 6 different bus trips today, I do still drive after work

End of work day

Just got home, about 20 mins to sit back and relax, then off for dinner!

Lunch

After attending meetings at the CRA, I had lunch with one of grad student interns, but on the way, there was a nice picket line outside, state workers I think? Not really sure (addendum: apparently the Governator said that if this budget doesn't pass, state workers get minimum wage or something - info from Manuel)



Also, here's another random picture of a "historic" downtown restoration...loft building and expansion never ends

Leaving the office

Taking a short bus ride to the Community Redevelopment Agency / LA (CRA) for a 10:00 meeting followed by another at 11:00....CRA building

The CRA helps fund projects such as LA Live, Hollywood/Vine, cool places like that haha