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July 14, 2004
another entry about sf
so i haven't been doing anything particularly outstanding lately, there's been a big convention in town so i've been working at the restaurant a lot. james and i were talking about those sudden urges we get to quit our respective jobs, and how you have to suppress them until they pass. uggh.
been playing a bit of chess at www.redhotpawn.com, a correspondence chess site my roommate brian showed me. i have games going on with about 4 people right now, i check it a few times a day. if anyone wants to challenge me my login is bendan. my boss at work keeps harping on me to dedicate myself, study books and go to chess club, but i've never been that into it. it's mostly just something i get into while traveling, so living here and having a city that has a culture of it is kinda cool. i play a few times a week down on market street, as i've mentioned before. i usually stop by there to watch for a few minutes if i don't have time to play, it's such an amazing game, so many infinite possibilities for outcomes and moves. i always said chess and pool are my favorite not sports games, because they are pure skill and mind, and having no element of luck involved. the chess tables are also good because you can sit there and watch the downtown life stroll by, the bike messengers and businessmen and homeless kids and crackheads and the chess sharks. honestly that might be a big part of why i've been playing. i sometimes think i'd like to spend half a day down there, talking and maybe interviewing people, but then i think i won't, that i need movement when i'm down there too much.
a few days ago kristy, darby kristy's friend mark from out of town and i drove down to half moon bay. the beauty of the coast is amazing , the cliffs and rolling hills and the fog speeding over all of it, with radiohead on the stereo. darby is thinking of buying a car, and before i recoiled at the idea, given how much of a hassle driving and parking is in the city, but it's times like that when we're 30 minutes away sitting on a beautiful beach, that i can appreciate the freedom a car would provide, and hope darby does buy one so she can drive me out of the city. hehe.
so been corresponding with dave g down in sunnyvale, trading pomes back and forth for editing. his pomes are much more polished then mine, so i feel like i can't offer as much helpful critique, while his criticisms are full of insight. it's been enjoyable, makes me want to write more.
dave came up for a party we had last week, brought along his lovely wife anna. they crashed in my room and i slept in my sleeping bag, we ended up having a party that night, sort of spur of the moment for kristy's birthday, unfortunately i had to work early the next morning, so i crashed (ahem, passed) out early so i could get up. we have another party planned for the 30th, everyone in our house is into having people over, i want to get in at least 2 in august before aaron and kristy leave.
i'm not sure when i'm gonna leave. sometimes i get this flight urge to get away from all this concrete and head out traveling with my backpack, but then i think about the base i'm building, and i know it would be wise and fun to put more time into living here. our house is in flux, we just had maya move out the beginning of this month, aaron and kristy are leaving end of august, and now maybe brian may be moving over the east bay. sorta puts stress on everyone having to find new people, but it's fun also, realizing how we came together and what's been built in living communally. i feel like going back to just living with roommates would be a let down after this.
dave g sent me some blues, i'm listening to howling wolf right now. blues is so much better then jazz, it has so much more soul it isn't even funny. i'm gonna go hang out with fuzzydave now, he has a lady friend in town, some woman who's originally from eastern europe. they met while in israel, he seems kinda excited about it. good for him.
Posted by bendan at July 14, 2004 08:53 PM
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come on, jazz is really good too. it's a different kind of soul is all.
Posted by: kari at July 15, 2004 01:55 AM