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WHO? Oliver. oof San Francisco again, Brooklyn before, Atlanta & Chicago wayback. RECENT: whups! reading SF wanderings back in SF Limelight Back in Brooklyn TRAVELS: Biodiesel trip across America (January, 2005) Paris (April, 2005) Election work in NM (November, 2004) ARCHIVES: September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 May 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 August 2003 June 2003 LINKS TO PALS: elly Toshok Pete Tuggy Workstatus Nathan Express Train SEARCH: RSS: Get your RSS feed here |
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June 27, 2005 12:51 AMwhups!HAHAHA. Will came to visit from Brooklyn! He is great! We had wine & cheese! We went to Slanted Door! We geeked over cameras and OSX! He is nice! I like him! During said visit, the wine got between me and the nachos. Wine versus Oliver: Wine WINS!
June 21, 2005 10:55 PMreadingI am currently reading this funny list of dispatches from a diplomat-husband in China. it is quite amusing to me, but I really wish I were out dancing under the full moon for the summer solstice with some hippies. oh well. I feel vaguely like I'm on antidepressants (I'm not). Everything is ok! Nothing is particularily bad. I don't feel particularily deeply about anything, but that's ok too. San Francisco is good. I like coffee. My stomach seems to be settling down from it's post-NYC tumult. I've had almost no fried food, and no booze for a week now. I wonder if this is what clean living is like? I went to the JCC yesterday. It was big and nice and fancy and we swam a bunch. It's far away though. life goes on. June 19, 2005 06:37 PMSF wanderingsHi. elly & I took a nice walk on a sunny June Saturday in San Francisco, and took some fotos for you nice peoples:
June 16, 2005 12:29 AMback in SFHi. I'm back home with my sweetie. I got up at the crack of dawn yesterday just so that I could stand-by on an earlier flight to get back to her :) :) I managed to get my car delivered back to me (yay! it looks and drives great!) in time to drive up and surprise elly. We wandered around previously unexplored docks and walkways in North Point. It's really nice up there. New York was great. I'll put up pictures Real Soon Now, but the brief summary is that I loved being there, the weather was awesome, it was great to see all the people that I care about. I ate so much and drank way way too much. My liver may never be the same. Thanks pals! Randy invited me up to Spider Ranch, where much hanging out and working in the house & field happened under some seriously hot and humid weather. It was great! The trip helped me to realize that it's all still there. My friends are still my friends, there are new ones and old ones both. All of New York beckons if I ever want to go back, or better still, to be bi-costal. San Francisco is my home for now. It is nice here. Some days it will be foggy & cold, or I will be cranky, or I will think its better in other places (namely Brooklyn). Other days I'll kick myself for not buying real estate in Brooklyn when I first moved there (ok, that's every day!). But in the end, I really am happy with the results of the choices that I've made thus far. There is much contentment here in just living life and doing nice things day to day. If I were a huge cat, I would muxx all of San Francisco right now. June 04, 2005 02:22 AMLimelightEver since the deconsecrated church at 6th Ave & 20th street was re-opened as Avalon a few years back, I've wanted to go. I never made it when we lived here because it was too cheesy/expensive/long line/etc. All dumbass excuses. elly & I went tonight with egg & Nick, and had a total blast. It was a trip to a different cultural dimension, with friends to look out for each other. We went to go listen to and see Richie Hawtin (no longer bald, much to our confusion!) drop banging techno on the best soundsystem in NYC. It was worth it, and more. We spent $100 before the first round of drinks was done; it was totally overpriced, filled with underaged kids and guidos, and great! We staked out a nice spot on the balcony to do our dancing, met some nice peoples, and just bounced and hopped around for hours. It was grand. The trip home involved the ABBA hour in a cab on the way to a stop for pizza at Famous Joe's (shout out to Jeremy for that one!), a beautiful pre-dawn ride across the Manhattan Bridge, and dawn is just now breaking outside Pete's window. New York put out today. elly & I wandered SoHo in the rain and gloomyness, and we just didn't care. Eating at the tasty Caravan always helps :) Sometimes, you just have fun. I learn lessons every day, it seems. Some are harder to digest, others pretty transparent. I need to focus on paitence & understanding. Things always work out better when I demonstrate these traits, and usually get pretty fucked up when I don't. Rocket science here, huh? :)
June 02, 2005 11:29 AMBack in BrooklynHi! elly & I flew nicely and sweetly on the afternoon Jet Blue flight from Oakland to JFK. It was nice: we watched animal planet, The Daily Show, a story about dams, and an episode of Myth Busters where they made a catapult out of a cherry picker!! NYC welcomed us in all the right ways, replete with crazy cab driver who didn't want to take my route home, took his, and then yelled at me about directions the whole way. Good times! heh. We walked through the dark deserted streets of post-midnight-Wednesday night in Park Slope. I was overwhelmed with feeling, memories, goodness. We went to the park, I got a slice of Pino's pizza (greasy!), and just tried to get our bearings. It feels so right here. The park made for good grounding into this earth, and the Arch at Grand Army Plaza was good for the awe-inducing. Pete & Urcella are awesomely graciously putting us up in the Tuggy Jonez Memorial Suite, and sleep was good. I'm totally wired, and a handful to deal with, I'm sure. Morning consisted of a hug from egg, EGG!!! :) :) :) and a walk all the way down to Naidre's, where we made it to breakfast just in time (breakfast sandwich, crossiant, fakin' bacon, coffee by 1pm), the really nice person there remembered my name and comped our coffees. It's awesome. We also met the cutest german sheppard (maybe?) puppy in the whole damned world. Her name is lily, and I wanted to eat her up!! This town feels like home to me in a way that Chicago never quite did. The family aspect is obviously different, but I really feel like I'm returning to visit a place that I really existed in. hindsight is 20:20, eh? now off to have crazy adventures, and hopefully drink too much! |
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