So I flew back down to LA this morning for a meeting with a producer, and it's been one of those WTF days.

The flight was fine... but I had to get up for it at 4:30 am. When I got to LA I had to take a taxi from LAX out to the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank for my meeting. It was an hour long taxi ride that cost $85. Ouch.

The real kicker is that I LEFT MY FREAKING CELL PHONE IN THE CAB. Ugh. I realized what I had done immediately after the cab pulled away and embarked on a desperate struggle to find a pay phone near the studios to find out where I was supposed to go. It was crazy; the first two pay phones I found didn't work, and I had to walk around forever.

Luckily I got on the phone with my contact guy and we made it to the meeting on time. Crisis avoided. My office managed to get in touch with the cab driver and he's going to meet me in about an hour to give me back my cell phone.

It's a hot day and I'm wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt. I tend to feel like a total misfit walking around in LA, especially on the Warner Brothers lot this afternoon. Huge "fish out of water" feeling, that's for sure.

The meeting went really well though, and I'm definitely glad to be back down here making progress. I'm going to spend the rest of the evening at the airport waiting for my 9:00 flight. I think that I'm just going to pay to get into the first class lounge in the Alaska terminal and hang out drinking beer and writing my spec script.