Or try airbnb. You can find some offbeat, cheap places! I stayed in a granny unit in someone's back yard. It was great and they even stocked the fridge.

One piece of LA culture that it takes some time to get used to is that people will act like friends as soon as you meet them and they will pretend they want to get to know you better even if they don't. So they may say "We really have to get together" without meaning it at all. It can be confusing. Just assume that,…

My folks' dog had seizures when he would eat milk or milk products.

Fucking Kinja won't let me to reply in a thread I have already replied in?

I have been on a Mediterranean cheese plate kick. I warm up a pita, then have a plate with about 10 different things - olives, pickles, cheese, real thick yogurt with Za'atar on it, carrot sticks, baby cucumbers, a blob of hummus or baba ghanoush, some garlic sauce - just a little of each thing - and I tear up the…

All the time. Sometimes in the middle of work meetings. After three or fours hours of meetings, I'm just like "Why are people still talking?" and when they ask me a question, I'll just say something like yes or no or mmm hmm, then everyone just sits there waiting for me to elaborate and I can't.

Whisper to yourself "They can't kill me," before you ask.

Correlation, causation, whatevs.

I know about the altitiude. I went to yoga camp on my 50th bday and did yoga at 11,200 ft. I felt good about just surviving that one.

Wow, I just learned you could search the thread. Too late for me. I already Poped.

In my brief encounters with the state, it has seemed 1) gorgeous and 2) weirdly Stepfordish. Nice but...suspiciously nice. I could not wait to leave.

Olivia Pope raises the average considerably.

We are all horrible in some way or another. That is just her. She puts up with me being a nut as well.

This is my best friend. She makes me want to dieeeeeee but there is no way to circumvent this behavior. Believe me, I have tried everything from just telling the waiter to come back later, to reading out menu items to her, to saying "Let's stop chatting and decide so we'll be ready when the waiter gets here." Nope,…

In which I am the idiot: I always wondered why the ladies at the burrito stand looked at me weird when I ordered a veggie burrito with no lettuce, tomato, or sour cream. Turns out I was ordering a beans, rice and cheese burrito, which is cheaper than the veggie.

Full-fat yogurt is the best, too. I get the kind from the Middle Eastern market that doesn't have much English on the label. I think it is Lebanese (because there are little pictures of cedars).

Next person who tries to tell me what to eat gets a meal made by me: a knuckle sandwich.

Hey! She handles things like I do, except I've never been that successful, so I haven't fallen as far. Sisterhood!

No, it's perfect. Explains exactly what I needed to know.

Well, that's a good explanation! Thank you.