Random LA Update:
Honestly it's kinda static. On a certain level stuff feels normal, but then I remember that you used to be able to sit inside the coffee shops and enroll your kid in gymnastics classes Last month, one of my less-financially-stable friends started a go-fund-me to try and pay her rent, and my friend in the UC college system found out she's going to be furlowed for four months to meet budget cuts My gym is still closed, and has started a go-fund-me, and joined a coalition circulating a petition to the state to let our specific sport re-open. A "hot yoga" gym is meeting secretly, as is the local crossfit. The kung-fu place is practicing in the parking lot. I looked up the owner's bio and he's a street kid refugee from the Vietnam wars. Once you've lived through all that, Covid is probably not that scary.
All the colleges are planning for online spring semesters. I hear a few, very specific, classes may be coming back for hands-on-work. I also hear that local college counseling center is experiencing 4x the amount of calls it usually does as students freak out about delaying graduation a year, vs fundings, vs. living situations. It sounds like it sucks.
Oh yeah, it just got freezing cold for winter and all the outdoor-only restaurants are about to be in trouble. I chatted with the manager at a swanky place in Malibu and he's putting up plastic bubbles around each outdoor table. They're weird and cute and look like this:
I had lunch yesterday outside the county line, and they invited us inside when it started to rain. I'm googling and it sounds like that's legal there now - so yay for them!
Sports gear is still all sold out. The local animal rescue network is being flooded with pets by people who are either moving out of state, or into smaller places, or in with relatives. I drove through LA proper last week and didn't feel like the number of homeless had gone up that much, but they've stopped making them move, so they're acquiring more furniture than normal and their camps are becoming more solid encampments than usual.
And a big tech convention scheduled to happen here in the summer of 2021 just announced it would be going virtual again.
Honestly it's kinda static. On a certain level stuff feels normal, but then I remember that you used to be able to sit inside the coffee shops and enroll your kid in gymnastics classes Last month, one of my less-financially-stable friends started a go-fund-me to try and pay her rent, and my friend in the UC college system found out she's going to be furlowed for four months to meet budget cuts My gym is still closed, and has started a go-fund-me, and joined a coalition circulating a petition to the state to let our specific sport re-open. A "hot yoga" gym is meeting secretly, as is the local crossfit. The kung-fu place is practicing in the parking lot. I looked up the owner's bio and he's a street kid refugee from the Vietnam wars. Once you've lived through all that, Covid is probably not that scary.
All the colleges are planning for online spring semesters. I hear a few, very specific, classes may be coming back for hands-on-work. I also hear that local college counseling center is experiencing 4x the amount of calls it usually does as students freak out about delaying graduation a year, vs fundings, vs. living situations. It sounds like it sucks.
Oh yeah, it just got freezing cold for winter and all the outdoor-only restaurants are about to be in trouble. I chatted with the manager at a swanky place in Malibu and he's putting up plastic bubbles around each outdoor table. They're weird and cute and look like this:
I had lunch yesterday outside the county line, and they invited us inside when it started to rain. I'm googling and it sounds like that's legal there now - so yay for them!
Sports gear is still all sold out. The local animal rescue network is being flooded with pets by people who are either moving out of state, or into smaller places, or in with relatives. I drove through LA proper last week and didn't feel like the number of homeless had gone up that much, but they've stopped making them move, so they're acquiring more furniture than normal and their camps are becoming more solid encampments than usual.
And a big tech convention scheduled to happen here in the summer of 2021 just announced it would be going virtual again.
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