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April 26, 2004
pictures from san francisco (fixed)
megan posted photos from her trip here, she's moving out permanently within a few weeks, which is cool cause she's fun to hang out with, even if she doesn't like riding bikes. the 6th one down is me on ocean beach my first day here, nearly 3 weeks ago now.
here are some polaroids too, megan is a live journal geek, i'll be sure to remind her of that when she comes back to s.f.
so went to that party last friday, my trucker costume garnished much praise, no one thought my tattoo was real. rebekah got very drunk, since it was her birthday, so much so that she went to sit in a hot tub and got only her feet in before the heat made her dash across the lawn and vomit delicately into some bushes. happy birthday rebekah.
saturday worked, the best part of which was that i got out early enough to meet up with aaron, kristy, matt, and 2 of matt's roommates for 6.50$ all you can eat ethopian food, which is unheard of. we stuffed ourselves to overflowing, and had a weird talk about weird dreams we'd had. after that matt's roommates left, and matt, aaron, kristy and i rode through golden gate park, gathering firewood. if i only would have had a camera to document the spectacle that was aaron's bike loaded down with wood, it was a sight to behold. riding through the park at night was very fun, aaron told me that there are literally thousands of people living in hobo jungles in there, you could almost sense their presence.
we made it down to ocean beach to find it speckled with bonfires. unperturbed, we carried our bikes out on the sand, and proceeded to build a nice bonfire. looking out at the ocean and smelling the wind come in made me unbelievably tired, and quickly i pulled out my sleeping bag. we locked all our bikes together and i slept with my head on my shoes, hobo style, and had an amazing night's sleep.
i awoke first, to see the sun rising over the hills. sat and looked at the ocean, thought about how every time you look at the ocean you're reminded of all the times before in your life when you've done so, and how they all build and add on top of each other, to the point where i don't know how long i'll be stuck gazing over the water when i'm an old man, all the memories flooding back.
we rode back to aaron's, ditched our sleeping bags, and headed over to punk rock breakfast. the menu was the same as always, i'm excited for matt's house to start holding these events, i'm totally gonna help out.
yesterday, which was monday, i got out of work early again. had a nice long bike ride around the mission, the househunting goes poorly but i'm not that worried, aaron's house is so amenable to me being there it's a godsend, when aaron and matt moved here they were stuck living in a youth hostel until the found a place to live.
been hanging out with fuzzy dave a bit more, he's living in this house full of couples, a couple mafia situation as jenny used to say, and they're all nice but he thinks, and i agree, that he needs to hang out with me more, get more shows and bars and waterballoon launching parties in his life.
so today was my only day off this week, and it's been a good one. woke up early, rode around town a bit, then went to meet this lady felicia lowe. she's been a producer here in s.f. for a while, i got wind of her project from fuzzy dave's roommates. it's about chinese people who immigrated to cuba, and all the interviews are in cuban spanish, so she needs someone to transcribe and translate for subtitles. my skillset fits pretty perfectly, we had lunch and i'm gonna review some of her tapes, tell her what i think. i don't know how much she's gonna want to pay me, but getting something like this on my resume would be worth working for cheap, specially since it's sure to show on pbs.
so last thing was i was looking in bike shops for a new frame today, and ran into dave irwin from reno. he used to work with billy spaceman at college cyclery, he's living here now as well, looking for more bike mechanic work. he told me of other reno kids i know who are in the city, and i'm gonna try and get a hold of them this weekend, do some hanging out.
ok enough for now, gonna go to another bike shop maybe, or else just back to aaron's for dinner. hope all are well.
Posted by bendan at April 26, 2004 05:06 PM
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