I've been sick for the past week, hence the lack of posts. So far my new doctor isn't helping much; apparently he didn't have more than five minutes to spend with me when I went in for a check-up, and I've had to self-diagnose myself with the condition I have based upon the numbers from my blood tests. To top it all off, I've had to wage a war over the phone with his idiot male nurse (murse?) just to get a referral to a specialist. Ugh.

With each passing day I'm growing more and more frustrated with the culture here in Los Angeles. I have never seen such a superficial, joyless population of people in my entire life.

People just look right through you. If you're walking down the sidewalk and pass somebody by, there is no friendly nod of acknowledgement, no eye contact. At the grocery store you're liable to be run over by a shopping cart if you don't watch yourself, and people don't even bother to check if they're blocking the aisle for others. Don't even get me started on how rude people can get when they're driving down here; I've literally been honked at just for looking at someone's car in the lane next to me on the freeway.

...continued at The Warrant and the Sanction.com