No Dull Moments

Balcony livin'. It just IS.

There is never a bad time for the balcony. I have made it a part of my everyday summer routine to make sure i am on my balcony around 7 to watch the sunset. In the beginning of summer it was falling right behind the Getty, creating a beautiful silhouette, then the chariot took it slowly south west of that monument and the sea breeze gifted us with amazing cumulus and stratus clouds that had sun rays bouncing off of them as the sun went to sleep and the clouds came into our towns to insulate the pollution. I love that i dont have to wear pants at night, but sometimes i actually think about why that might be and well you know. This last stage of wonder involves the sun falling behind the trees of Ophir, allowing for an even more intriguing night shot of Westwood at its best time: dusk. We live in La but where we actually live is NOT LA, which only makes laugh at the thought of whatever path i crafted for myself strangely being too appropriate for my adult self, especially considering how much knowledge i had about this place (which was none until I came for orientation). I didn't just take my finger and place it anywhere, I have wanted to come here since i could say a universities name--acronyms make inspiration easy sometimes--but i hadnt seen the campus or this area until i took the eight hour drive here by myself for orientation. Two years past and now i am re-seeing this area for something beyond the bubble that was the hill, now it is the balcony that is life. but back to here: we are very lucky, and very grateful to the room assignment gods because we have one of the best views in town. our balcony faces the best side, the west side and i am always happy to rep it. We dont look out to high rise office buildings such as the Oxy tower, that say the roof of certain frat houses see, but rather we peer at a great expanse of Rear Window opportunities, OJ's old backyard, and flight paths mixed into one. We get the trees of Brentwood, the beginnings of the Santa Monica Mountains, and LAX before it is LAX all in one glimpse. We get reds and oranges as the sunsets, but we also get green and grey as the trees sway and the smog creeps in. This is not a completely LA view, which is why i am thankful, but I'm not denying that i live in a concrete compound, the bubble of school life doesn't allude me, but at least when I'm on the balcony i am unaware of all of that. In the morning i wake up and step out into the fresh ocean clouds, somehow we also live on the beach at times. Balcony mornings are usually about:
a.) macon doing her awesomeness in her notebook
b.) smoke in your mouth before water
c.) sipping coffee as we watch the game that is westwood parking
and maybe
d.)me studying.

Afternoon balcony is a funny one because the sun doesn't actually start to grace the patio until 2:30. Long mornings with great breezes is really all it means, but once the sun comes Bam! like emeril you be grillin. We have plenty of fun things on the balcony such as a big white door (from a mysterious room 402) that everyone colors with crayons. BAM! melty crayons indeed, but we remedied that situation by finding them a shady lane. we have a clock set at the appropriate time of course, about the time where i did my wizard business today:





And my new profile picture is a testament to the first stage of wizardry, and it is also a homage to the great King Theoden. yes, we have some other fun friends on the balcony, such as the king, the water curse, zeus, and dub-o-dub who all hang out under our newly Macgyvered cardboard condo that exclaims "No longer Bakin' in the sun, just Chillin". the best is yuri's awesome puzzle, glow in the dark orcas for all who come to visit our wonderful plot-o-air-space.
Balcony night life is exactly what you expect. And we certainly have the evidence spewn about to illustrate that point. But that isnt what matters about our ADULT- "Nite Life". The best is that we have my computer speakers set up in a way that allows them to play music out of the windows into the balcony and onto the streets below. we get a lot of "are you the girls that play all that really good music?", and yes it us dance partying amongst ourselves in the night.
Balcony livin' is about living. the balcony is a portal (with only the most timid of monsters sir david) and the time spent in the portal is always pleasant. If there is one theme of my summer it is balcony livin' because balcony livin' is everything, which we know is nothing, but they are one in the same, so hence balcony livin' just IS. Balcony livin'; a world unto itself, a world of all sorts of energies.


Listening to: Air's Talkie Walkie throughout the formulation of this whole entry, but "Universal Traveler" was the key component to it all