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April 12, 2004
totally happy and busy and rocking out
so yesterday we woke up early, kristy (aaron's girlfriend who lives in this house as well), me, aaron and megan from ohio (who's moving here now she thinks, which is rad cause it adds to our summer crew) rode our bikes over to the golden gate bridge, then hopped in a minivan owned by the park service and shot across the fog shrouded bridge over to marin. in marin we met up with a bunch of volunteers and spent a few hours clearing yellow broom off of a hillside overlooking the city and the bay. the yellow broom is this shitty invasive plant that's killing off this cooler indigenous plant, which is the only plant this certain type of butterfly feeds on. for me it was totally fun to rip all these plants up, we used weed jacks and cleared the hell out of them. it felt good to do something good and physical after tons of wasting time in reno waiting to move here. after that, aaron, megan and i screwed around climbing trees and having balancing contests until kristy got off, then we drove the minivan up to the muir woods. that woods is full of redwood trees, damn old ones, plus it's where they filmed the ewok scenes of star wars. we walked on paths through the woods and talked about star wars and all types of stuff, it's funny when i get into some fantastic natural setting and end up discussing american pop culture. that happened in the sahara desert as well, i don't know why we don't just walk around quietly and drink it all in.
anyways, came back to s.f., which included a good uphill ride, and had dinner at a friend's house. i cruised back here and showered and got all dressed up, cause i was going to a party at alec's house. alec is from reno and played in a bunch of reno bands, now he has a band called doctor gogo, which rules. the party was alright, i'm not used to house parties that much, but met some new folks, ate a bunch of good hummus, and drank some free drinks. i rode home and crashed out about 1.
this morning we all slept in, then went and had punk rock breakfast in the mission district. the breakfast was 1 dollar, cause all the food was dumpstered, and there were tons of punks there. after that we went to a park and watched burningmanesque skits by drag queens all dressed up in easter regalia. we made many jokes about easter being cooler then christmas, cause it reminds one of zombies and vampires, or at least it reminded us.
then i rode my bike around alone for a few hours, riding down mission street it totally reminded me of a mexican city street, all the signs in spanish. i totally want to live there, sent emails on a few houses today, gonna follow up tomorrow, there were some for 470 or so including utilities, that's pretty cheap for here. i don't really care what type of place i live in, i'm sure i'll hardly be there at all, just to cook and sleep. i made a point to ride up the steepest hills, gotta get my exercise after all the food i'm eating, aaron and i realized we're totally hungry more when we're around each other, maybe we just keep asking the other if he's hungry, which reminds us that we always are.
we made a big old dinner of vietnamese style fried rice, drank a bunch of beer and gin and those terrible Sparks alcoholic drinks, then we got out the water balloon launcher. first we climbed over and the neighbor's roof, but we were laughing and making a ton of noise, so we busted out of there just as they started yelling out the windows at us. after that we shot balloons down the street until we almost hit a pedestrian, then it was time to run back inside.
some people went to sleep but aaron, kristy, and rebecca, a cool girl who teaches elementary near stanford and i weren't tired, so we went riding bikes on a food gathering mission. we didn't find anything but a bag of cereal, but it was so great to ride around at night, doing bicycle ballet and singing songs out loud. we got back to the house a little bit ago, ate some cereal, cleaned up the kitchen, now we're all going to sleep.
tomorrow gonna see about finding a better job, i start at the fake mexican restaurant on thursday, and i got 2 ok shifts and 2 crappy ones, but seems like there might be better opportunities, something less corporate and more san francisco. not getting my hopes up though, the restaurant will definitely pay the bills.
i can't believe how happy i am here. riding around today and screwing around with all aaron's roommates, who are becoming my new friends, i'm so glad i decided to come. the summer is gonna be so good, we're planning trips up to oregon and down to santa cruz to visit erich, and i'm thinking about getting a single speed road bike to tear all around the bay on. aaron and i are working on convincing airielle in idaho and erich in santa cruz to move up, i want steven to as well but i think he's set on alaska, if we can get him up here for another night of mayhem we might turn the tide though. i'm so glad to be surrounded by friends and so much to do. gonna see 3 shows later this month, at least, and who knows how many next month. this is what i wanted, and it's totally workng out, and i feel so much better it's ridiculous. hooray for moving.
Posted by bendan at April 12, 2004 03:35 AM
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