The reading room on a Sunday evening
I'm sitting in the reading room in the tower of the law library. It's Sunday evening. Twilight. The sun has sunk and the light is soft,...
This is not a wishing well.
It is a picture of a wishing well, a wishing well at the Getty Centre. Isn't it wonderful? You can see all of the wishes gleaming in the...
giggles in the Arts District
In the Arts District, there is a coffee shop called the Blue Bottle Coffee Co. It roasts its own beans and makes the world's most sublime...
And I'm walkin' in Venice
Something I've been wanting to do since I arrived in LA was to head down to Venice beach to check out the scene, and also just to see the...
Nerd alert!
I spent most of my LLB thoroughly mystified as to what my professors wanted from me. Good results were often as mysterious as bad ones -...
Big pond, tiny fish
I feel like life is a series of 'first-day-at-school' experiences. I remember when I started high school, and my dad articulated exactly...
Linger on the sidewalks where the neon lights are pretty
I'm sure you're aware by now that I have a little bit of a love affair with architecture (an amateur one, sure, but it's still alive and...
Stargazing
Hello, my darlings! What a lovely day - warm, clear, no smog, bright and full of discoveries. As usual, my poor weak Capetonian eyes...
Little Osaka
R and I don't presently enjoy the luxury of a functional stove - ours leaks gas and the landlord is taking his sweet time with replacing...
The Art Deco Appreciation Society
So my roomie, R, is pretty cool for several reasons, one of them being her love of Art Deco buildings, and another her generosity with...
