Week 2 Review
Cost: B
To fund my activities for the second week of 30 Day LA, I spent a grand total of $203, including gas. This comes out to an average of $29 a day.
Most expensive: $47 on Saturday, which included food, admission to Tofu Festival, and admission to the Troubadour.
Least expensive: $8 on Wednesday, biking day. Ate out for lunch but got some exercise.
Best value: $22 on Monday: dinner at California Chicken Cafe, movie and parking at the Arclight, frozen yogurt from Big Chill.
Fun: B
It’s kind of hard to grade week 2 on fun. It wasn’t as exciting as week 1, it was more low-key but still enjoyable. It’s like comparing “Sweet, that was awesome!” to “Cool I’ll have to do that again.” Exciting has a stronger immediate impact, but low-key is more sustainable and affordable.
Some memorable moments:
- Listening to a barista at Unurban Café loudly declare to her coworkers that she’s sick of all the creepy male customers hitting on her because she’s GAY AND HATES GUYS! in front of mostly male and possibly creepy customers.
- Sleeping in my bathroom using my shirt as a pillow after I fucked up myself with Captain Morgan on Thursday night. Yeah that was a new one.
- An awesome worker lady at Din Tai Fung stealing the food from another group’s order and giving it to us so we could get our food faster.
Originality: C
As covered in my post about routine, I feel like I’m doing the same stuff over and over again. I need to do more outlandish, daring things and do it on my own. I might try to meet people but completely lie about everything I say, or perhaps find a streetballer park and run a couple games, or even crash a hostile party. Also, a lot of the stuff I have been doing can be easily found on the web. I need to do some more groundwork and find stuff to do on my own.
Variety: A
The activities themselves have been pretty varied, from biking to work to going to a concert to going to a flea market. So far, I've been doing good in maintaining a wide range of activities, which helps me achieve one of my sub-goals of getting to know the city better.
Maintaining activities: D
I only cooked once, didn’t run, biked only once (but it was a decent total of 27 miles), and didn’t get many errands done.
Overall: B-
This week wasn’t as strong as week 1. But I did learn some valuable lessons:
- I’m broke
- I need to do more stuff on my own
- I need to be more creative in what I do
Perhaps I will cut down on the time I spend blogging about my adventures and spend more time making the adventures themselves more interesting and worth writing about. Now there’s a plan.