this is life

Sunday, March 07, 2004, at 07:55AM

By Eric Richardson

It's hard to complain about life when it's 80 degrees and clear blue skies outside. Standing out on my balcony I have a clear view of west LA, the Hollywood sign, downtown, and snow-covered mountain peaks off to the east. The microwave is beeping at me to let me know that my leftovers from the best resturant in LA are ready. Sure, I've got a midterm and a paper that should be weighing me down this week. Sure, I've got to change up my schedule to get into the health center Monday to get my stitches checked on. But you know, I really don't care. It's too nice out to care.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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