coming mr. wilson

I don't know why I've been neglecting the blog so much. It's not that I don't think about it. I do. It' s just when I have time, I'm never in the mood. Let's see, what's happened.... My birthday for starters. It was actually an amazing day. Rach got us a hotel for two nights in closer to downtown right next to the movie theatre (in case I wanted to go). We volunteered during the day and played basketball with kids that had autism. My kid was named Angel. I think he was around 14 or 15. He made almost every three point shot he went for and kicked my ass when we played one on one. They only do this once a month but I plan on doing it if I have off the next time they do it. Rach and I joined a volunteer organization and can sign up for different things all along the week. So far my work schedule has stopped me from doing another one, but I keep looking for a schedule match. We went to dinner (which was my first yelp review -Mayes Oyster House') and then was beckoned into some bar by four fifty - sixty year old lesbians who we hung out with for an hour. We then went to the local lesbian bar (which I hadn't been to yet) and we made temporary friends and had fun until two in the morning. It was all fantastic. Fog City Diner is okay. I like it, I like the people. I don't like being the underdog- everyone has been there for years and is very used to how things work and they're able to work very fast. I'm getting used to it. The money is really good as long as they don't cut you after two hours (which I'm the new person so I usually get cut first). I also wish I tried harder to find a job closer to home. There's so many restaurants around here but we both panicked I think and went for the tourist area we knew was hiring. It can take between twenty minutes to an hour and twenty minutes depending on traffic. We just an our public transportation explore day the other day, so we might start doing that. Christina and Alex came to visit for a few days!! We had an amazing time. We went on a boat ride under the Golden Gate Bridge, had some real Chinese food, saw a Blue Grass musician who was actually Asian (interesting), went to the movies, had some original Irish Coffee where it first started in the States and went to a famous bookshop where the Beat poets used to hang out. Having them being here cheered us up a lot. I think it's pretty obvious we're not crazy about San Francisco. I'm not overwhelmed by the friendliness of the people- thats for sure. Everyone says its so clean- I think it's really dirty. And there's are tons and tons of scary homeless people. Way more than New York and the ones here are different. They make you feel very uneasy. One of them threw a piece of bread at my face as he walked by. I was sitting in the park reading. I'll never know why he did it. Also yesterday one of them asked me if he could ask me a question. I would usually keep walking but thought that after the bread throwing incident I needed not to judge based on that one person and I stopped. The man who stopped me whispered something I won't even write in the blog in my ear. I told him he was a piece of shit and I walked away. Rachel feels the same way about San Francisco. We just can't seem to like it. I think part of it could be the weather. We're very weather affected people and the constant cold here doesn't do much for our moral. It can be very sunny and we've had a few really hot days and once in a while, it does get beautiful, but not enough. We're still going to give in the whole summer. We don't hate it.....really. We just don't love it. We do have some really great days and have fun but the fun is usually not San Francisco specific, if that makes sense. Our apartment dynamic is about to change. Robin is moving into a place with her girlfriend at the end of the month. We had an open house the other day to sublet the room. We chose a very friendly couple to take the room for a month. The sublet is only for July since Tuck will be moving back here in August (the guy whose room we took). Our new roommates will be Eric and Kyle. They're really sweet and the five of us hit it off immediately. The apartment will be crowed but the boys really did have great energies and kept expressing how clean and tidy they were, which gave them a lot of extra points. Monday we're going kayaking in the bay with some of Rachel's friends from work. I'm very very excited about it. I really will try to be better with the blog. I know I say that every time. One things I really really love about San Francisco..... is Linda's dog Wilson. If I don't either throw the ball right now or take him out he's going to start crying so I have to go. Later bloggers. -lj