The Daily Sabs

This evening I hate a date with Laura. She's a college era pal who
happens to work amazing magic with my hair. This time we went
asymmetrical bangs and some more chunks lobbed out. It comes up pretty
high on one side, and at first I wasn't sure I wanted to show that
much face, but I guess I'm going to just run with it. High beam to the
max!

After work, DK and I hopped into her car and headed down to Monterey, boulevard that is. We had a date with city landmark number 78. You see, DK's started up her new blog and she wants to highlight hidden gems in the city. Being a SF native, she knows all the unique spots.

I was worried that 78 was going to be closed (it partially was), but we made it there in time, and with just enough daylight left to spare. I've included one picture for taste, but to find out where we went, you'll just have to wait until DK posts it on San Franciscoing.

When I was growing up I always thought my mom had an odd mentholy
smell. She also always had weird patches on her arms. It wasn't until
I was older that I realized the two things were related. You see she
was a fan of salonpas. I always thought they were weird. I mean
essentially they are mentholy patches that give off an icy hot
feeling. Think of it as Ben gay in a sticker. And now, some 20 years
later, I think they're awesome. After the dumb moto accident last
week, my right arm is crazy sore. Thankfully salonpas is working it's
awesome magic.

Last night, with the assistance of neon and burger, Randall and I
headed out to the slumberland records 20th birthday party. Randall
wasn't feeling well so he bailed early. I, however stayed. It was fun
to see the newer bands (like the summercats), but it was a super treat
to see some of the older bands reunited (like go sailor and henry's
dress). Yet i must say, I feel officially too old for two nights of
shows in a row; my feet hurt from standing around and my hearing's
muffled despite wearing ear plugs.

It's unfortunate then that I don't seem to learn from my actions. In
fact, I think the month of April even has a week with three shows in a
row (beach house, atoms for peace, and love is all). It's the sad
price to pay for good tunes. And, I've been wasting good money on
shows for over 15 years, so why stop now?

This morning, after a bit of a slow start, randall and I went shopping
for both houses and groceries. We got the groceries but didn't get a
house. We found a pretty great one and we both thought we should place
an offer (first time we felt that way), but after a quick refeuling
(at atlas cafe where we ran into Colleen) we decided not too. It's 95%
amazing but is 5% too small and maybe 10% too expensive. That said,
I'm sure it'll be the one that got away.

This afternoon, while lazing around the house, anneh called to see if
I wanted to get some ice cream. It's a super peautiful day, and I
thought it would be good to get out and about. Randall, who rarely
turns down ice cream, decided to join us. It was sort of still a gal
outing because randall did that thing he does where he makes himself
invisible and hides in the corner. We did however make him become
visible in order to take our picture.

Here we are enjoying half sundaes. Anneh had the banana split and I
had sam's sundae. I'd always wanted to try it (choco ice cream, olive
oil, sea salt, and whipped cream), but never wanted that much of it.
Lucky for me anneh tipped me off to the fact that you can order half
sundaes. It's sort of the perfect amount (okay maybe still a tad much,
but you can eat it all in one sitting and not feel gross), and is not
written on the menu board. Consider yourself in the know.

Ps. sam's sundae is great, and I don't really even like chcocolate ice
cream.

Tonight has been the antithesis of nerd Friday. First I headed over to
a screening of chris's movie (victor yang, it's even on imdb). Then
afterwards Randall and I headed to little star where we met Karen,
Laura, and shin. We drank our beers and devoured the most delicious
pizza in the world. Afterwards we said farewell to shin and Randall
and headed over to the DNA lounge for a drag tribute to David Bowie.
The show hasn't started yet but there is dancing now. The song right
now is too loud for shazam to analyze, but when I asked Laura why I
knew it she helpfully replied "because it's famous." this is one of
the reasons why I heart her.

Ps. We're all giggly here because the guy in front of us in line was
messy drunk and got himself kicked out.

This evening chuckles surprised me with a last minute invitation to
the ballet. The sf ballet is US premiering the John neumeier version
of the little mermaid, and before you say how quaint let's take the
kids, I should mention that it is really gorgeous, slow, and super
avantgarde. In fact it was more like a modern dance wordless opera
than a ballet. The lead dancer (yuan yuan tan) portrays the mermaid so
amazingly. The angst and frustration at the new legs and lost love
(spoiler alert the ending is not like Disney at all) was totally
inspiring. It's been quite some time since i'd been to the ballet, and
i thoroughly enjoyed myself. If you're open to a nontraditional ballet
experience, you best get yourself to the opera house stat. The last
performance is this weekend.

Sidenote: the gal in the poster behind us is mascha, one of chuckles'
friends. I swear, this guy knows everyone.

Work is a but ridiculous on wednesdays, but at the end of the day I
get to hang out with the kids at 826. Tonight was the release party
and there were some pretty great articles (including one about how
google is maybe an evil company). This time all but two kids read
outloud, normally there's about 6 or 7 kids who won't read. We bribed
the kids with cupcakes this time. Guess it worked.

Afterwards I met up with anneh (she lives nearby) for coffee (okay
actually hot chocolate and iced tea). Today we were both striped up.
Our right stripes have got the right stuff indeed.

the best part of working from home is that the commute at the end of the day is fantastic. no muni, no crazy people, and no walking up that hill. it also means that dinner can get on the table before 7pm. tonight dinner was grilled steak and asparagus, served with wheat toast and salad. afterwards, randall made chocolate chip cookies. man, i wish every afternoon was wah afternoon.

as an aside, i would also like to mention that while we both worked from home today, randall and i were in separate rooms. this means we still used IM to communicate even though we were only 20 yards away. we also each had our own music playing. standing between the two parts of the house was a ridiculous audio assault. chopin vs. galaxie 500: sounds good in theory, not so much in practice.

This afternoon Brian, Andy, Sean, and I made a quick excursion to the
new frozen yogurt place across the street. Sadly, I stupidly forgot to
take a picture of our outing. The outing cracked me up for a couple of
reasons, the first being that in an office that is 75% female, the
only folks who wanted to go were dudes. The second being that the word
froyo was used so many times. I don't know why but that word cracks me
up. I understand that it's just an abbreviation, but it's sounds so
ridiculous.

Now, the question I ask you is this. Is froyo for everyone or is it a
"ladies" treat? Personally, I say it's for all. Sure it's tasty, but
there's no reason for us to bogart it. Especially not at the new
place, it's serve yourself and you pay by the ounce, toppings included.

So let's get some froyo yo!