Sunday, May 18, 2008

My first day of moving!

So I woke up this morning around 7:40, already a late start according to my dad. We left for SF shortly after and got there around 10. Greeted a slighlty hungover Meagan and happy J.P. (thats the veg chef!). My room still had random shit everywhere and I felt bad cause Meagan was trying to clean it. Unloading was work, my mom tripped and fell over the last step to get into the house. My dad and I tried hard not to laugh, poor thing! Got my bed set up with headboard minus sheets, my desk, a small dresser, and my bookshelf. My parents left and I unloaded my car myself. Wasn't too bad but I was sweating from all the stairs, the SF breeze felt amazingly nice. I visited with Meagan a bit, paid her my first months rent and she gave me my keys! I told her I'd be up sometime during the week with more stuff. I got in my car and it was barely 11. I was hungry so I googled Cafe Gratitude on my phone, got the address, drove 7 blocks up and 2 over, easily walking distance! It took me as long to find parking as it did to drive there. I sat down at the bar next to a cute boy who was by himself as well. They were playing Feist. I asked the cute boy if I could see his menu and he asked my opinion on some mysterey dried fruit in his granola. I thought it was a mango with the skin on but that is unusual, he asked a waitress, she told us it was dried apple. Mysterey solved. Looking at the menu I thought if I Am Lonely and I Am Stressed were on the menu I would have probably ordered that but instead I got I Am Worthy which was kale, celery, beet, and ginger juice and I Am Insightful which is a collard green wrap with carrots, and cabbage inside and a cashew dipping sauce. Afterward I had to order a milkshake for the heck of it, I got the I Am Cool, it was mint chocolate chip. Nowhere near as good as the one I had in Irvine, this one was barely a milkshake, more like sweet almond milk, but I think the boy was new so I'll give it another try sometime. Got the bill, with tip $30!! Overall Cafe Gratitude stood up to it's name, making me grateful for the my job where I get food and drinks like that 5 days a week for free! I definetly work in the right industry. Speaking of I had been getting texts from Cory since 8:30am for me to meet up with him and a group of people at the Bay to Breakers event. Him and his group were dressed up for it, the theme... Things you would find at a taco stand! He's been planning for this by growing out his beard and mustache and going to dye it and his hair black and wear a cowboy hat, boots, vest and big ol' buckle, I guess he wanted to be the head honcho of the stand. Gawd I hope he took pictures! By his last text it was apparent he was drunk! I told him I was heading home to do homework. He told me Buenos Noches!
On my way back to my car I saw a few things that gave me more of a taste of what SF is going to be like... I passed a buch of photography blowing in the wind.

Sad for whoever lost it. I looked at a few, VERY abstract. Now I wish I would have taken one with me, just for memories sake. Then right outside of my car door was a dirty condom, Yuck! (no picture taken) And a few minutes later experienced a trashy white lady and a black lady with 2 kids and a stroller sreaming at each other down the street, I was trying to figure out what was going on, all I heard was "dumbshit", and "Thanks for the info" and "Oh Yeah do u want my address too?" Such attitude, I thought they might beat each other up at one point. Yikes! I got back to Hollister and it's so much hotter here :( That was my day. Now it's time to actually work on some homework.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

welcome to sf!! haha! i bet you will have far weirder experiences in the future!