So, at the risk of having it fall apart at the last minute again -- I found a(nother) place! It's a nice townhouse in a decent section of West L.A., the room is big, it's a two-story place, the guy I'll be sharing the place with seems really cool. I'm going over there after work tomorrow to give him a deposit check, then I'll start moving my stuff in and getting it set up over the next few days. I'll finally have a home base set up from which to take over the world -- I mean, live my life. I talked for a while tonight with one of my friends back East, who said that I sounded the happiest that he's really known me to be, and that things sound like they're really falling into place for me and he still can't believe that I just up and went out to Los Angeles. Personally, I can't believe it either. This just kind of feels like I'm in limbo -- I don't have a home or my familiar life in Boston to go back to, yet it doesn't feel real enough yet for me to be here and actually living here. It's hard to explain.

I've often wondered why television networks do that thing where they start programs an hour earlier in Central time than they do in Eastern time. It's not like the networks haven't progressed past the point where it's technically impossible to air programs at the same clock-time as on the Eastern seaboard. In Pacific time, primetime starts at the same time as on the East Coast. And I'm still not sure what hour primetime begins in Mountain time. When I was spending the night in New Mexico on my way out here, the local network affiliates started running primetime programs at 6PM. Doesn't that kind of lose a lot of viewership? People would be inclined to come home from work, relax, eat dinner, spend a little time catching up with their families or friends or both, then maybe turn on the TV. If primetime starts at 6 -- or even 7 for a lot of people who work later than 5 or have a longer commute -- then they'd have to rush home in order to make their favorite programs or they'd miss them entirely. Will someone please explain this to me?