West LA rocks. I try to stay west of the 405 whenever possible here...usually manhattan, hermosa, santa monica and venice. I love living a 5-minute cab ride from the airport...i can get from my pad to the gate in less than 20 minutes...so convienient..never have to ask for a ride. Hollywood and all that crap annoys me....kind of like my gripes about the eastside of portland. while it probably has more culture, its just kind of inconvienient to get to and its a bit dingy out there too. plus there are more "scenes" there that I don't dig. Fullerton is nice now that they revitalized the downtown bars by CSF. My buddy has a new condo walking distance from there...and they have a good metrolink train that goes downtown to san diego that crosses right through there.
I leave my place in Beaverton (because I am far too poor to live anywhere near the river) and take public transit to PSU. There, I play basketball, tutor for an hour, go to class, then take an hour bus ride to NE 102nd and Prescott and teach an adult ESL class and then take the bus back to Beaverton, a 2 hour commute. These are my 12 hour days of awesome. Portland isn't very much fun for a grad student.
I've been spending more time in Denver unfortunately, but I'm generally in PDX during the summer months. I live in LO, so the day starts with a swim in the Lake or on an ergometer. A drive downtown where I spend 8-10 hours getting yelled at by investors. A drink for happy hour (only one) and then back to the homestead for dinner, which is almost always on the grill that time of year. Pretty boring.
Wake up at noon, try to shake the hangover. Then pop into the office for a quick hour of work, aka posting on S2. Then it's off to ride my unicorn in Waterfront Park and perform unsolicited CPR on attractive passersby. Then the sleeper cell meeting - we usually have a pu pu platter there, and then descend into the underground for a smoke and, well, you know. Listen to a little Donny Osmond and off to bed. barfo
It's the airport code for Portland International Airport, but locals use it to refer to the city itself. Kind of an odd thing - I don't know of any other city that does that, but it's quite common here to say PDX instead of Portland. barfo
Wasn't there some really bad (poisonous) algae problem in the lake? I thought I read about that a few years back....
Yeah, that was two or three summers ago. There's always an algae bloom at the end of the canals. They're fixing the problem at a pretty high cost. It has to do with phosporous runoff from all the fertilizer spread on yards for all the houses where their wastewater dumps into the lake. Also, they let the dredging go too long.
WOW! I'm speechless! As someone who grew up and still lives in inner N.E. Portland, I am insulted by this statement. Such ignorance blows me away. It's too bad!
