May 28, 2005 - Los Angeles, California

Square 15

Coming to Los Angeles has been like diving deep, deep into my past. I'm dividing my time between sleeping on the couch at the apartment where I lived and worked seven years ago and at the friend's house where I staid each time I got ready to move to another place. I've been going through boxes that were stored for me a year and a half ago and weeding out the luggage I can no longer allow myself to carry. I phoned an old friend for the first time in years, a programmer who used to work with us, about working on a web project for a friend's non-profit organization. Then I went back even further in time, helping an interior designer with her concept boards and assisting her in managing her jobs. Which is what I briefly did for a large design firm when I first moved to this city in 1997. But the strangest blast from the past is something I pulled out of storage and started using again for the first time in fifteen years. I'm walking around wearing a jeans jacket to which I applied a bunch of patchwork when I was about fifteen years old. Fifteen!!!!! That feels like it was ages ago. It's like I went back to look at the beginnings of my adult life from a whole new perspective. Back to square fifteen...

posted by Mahi at 2:28 PM  

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