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April 15, 2004

a minor setback, but more importantly, national high five day, and my latest article

so yesterday i found this excellent room right in the part of town i wanted to live in, with roomates ranging from columbians to argentinians to spaniards. i went over at 7, when the person who was leaving the room said to, and she'd already given it away. perhaps i could have browbeat her into giving it to me, but i wasn't in that mindset, plus the other person who she's given it to (who didn't even speak spanish) showed up right then with the deposit. in hindsight i wish i'd been more forceful, but that's not my nature so much, so i guess there was no chance of it anyways. still, this room hunting is annoying, i have to keep checking craigslist 5 times a day, which is hard cause i'm not into screwing with the internet at all right now, believe it or not, i'd much prefer to be out in the streets riding around or at the climbing gym.
still, yesterday was good times, matt and i rode to the top of bernal hill which overlooks the city, then we got some food at a neighborhood cafe. i really like sitting on chairs outside of these cafes and restaurants and looking out at the streets, watching all the people walk by. matt and i did some framing of walls in the post office he and his roommates are converting into a living space, that was good fun, we're having a work party tonight, gonna throw up some more walls and maybe tack up some drywall.
one funny moment yesterday was sitting in front of the bart station across 16th from matt's house, watching all the crackheads do drug deals. matt was playing his bongo drum, so they left us alone, it seemed like they enjoyed having a rhythm to their weird, cracked out days. he said that some evenings he goes out at 9 or 10 pm, and 6 crackheads will circle around him and dance. he said it must be a sight to behold from across the street, i called him the pied piper.
start work today, gonna see how it goes, then decide if i want to look for something better/more lucrative.

so the real important part of this post is to remind everyone that it's national highfive day! get your high five on!

also, here's a link to my latest article in the news and review. it's about water rights in south reno, i could pun and say that it's a very dry article, haha, but it will do good work it it causes people to look more at how much water golf courses waste.

Posted by bendan at April 15, 2004 09:41 AM

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High five day... hehe.
you americans have way too much free time on your hands.

Posted by: El Israelita at April 18, 2004 03:42 AM

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