I'm gonna marry the night

So, instead of bitching about how stressful my job is already this morning (just know it is), I'll tell you about almost getting pee on me in San Fransisco.  It's a good story. 

I tried to draw a comic of this but it's taking too long, perhaps I'll finish it tomorrow and post it. 

So Ann and I are walking all around Mission Street in San Fransisco, just being two trendy and awesome chicas.  We decide to go to a El Salvadorian place to eat some papusas.  So we go into a random restaurant and sit down at a sort of cleanish table.  The waitress comes up to us and shoots off some rapid Spanish.  I'm at a loss (it's been like 8 years since my last Spanish class), so thankfully Ann has some Spanish under her belt.  She translates the question to me, what kind of juice, tamarino, orchard or pineapple.  The lady speaks no English at all.  I'm not sure how she can work in a restaurant in SF without marginal English but she does.  Or maybe she was just refusing to speak to us in English, I don't know.  Either way, Ann helps me remember some of my Spanish and we both order papusas, mine with puerco and frijoles and hers with queso y frijoles.  She makes it a big deal, saying "sin animalia" and asks if they use lard ( I don't remember the Spanish for it).  The waitress says, no, no, no animalia.  Good. 

We get our papusas a little bit later (eat them with plantains, which I've never had before, AWESOME!!!!) either way, mine was fine but Ann gives me a funny look and a piece of her papusa.  "Is this meat?" she asks me.  Why, yes, it was.  Way overcooked chicken.  So we get the reluctant waitress to come back over and ask her if this is "pollo"? "Si!" she answers enthusiastically.  Ann sighs, points to herself and says "vegetarian".  The waitress brings her a new papusa.  Most of the rest of it was uneventful.  Btw, thanks to Ann for buying my lunch, I owe ya one!

So we are walking back up Mission St carrying our leftovers and heading towards Om Shan Tea, the teashop we were going.  We saw trannys, prostitutes, crazy homeless guys and other colorful SF Mission St residents.  One homeless guy (this was on our way to the papusa place but who cares about a timeline, really?) points to me and says "America's!" then points to Ann and says"TOP" and points to himself and says "Model!" Then goes and talks to a prostitute.  It was interesting. 

Anyway, an old guy was pushing an older guy down the street in a wheel chair, ignoring all the traffic laws and pushing him out into oncoming traffic.  He ends up getting ahead of us because of this (cool chicas don't violate traffic laws!) and I don't think anything of it.  Ann and I are totally having cool chica talk going on, minding our own business when I look over to my right randomly.  There are all these trees planted on the sidewalks next to the road and the wheel chair pushing dude totally flashes me his ass and his tucked jewels and staff and pees backwards on a tree.  If you didn't get that, he is bending over, facing backwards, spraying a tree with his urine with his ass hanging out and his cock and balls tucked backwards giving me quite a show and almost giving me a quick golden splatter. 

I make some type of expletive and jump back against Ann who was unsuspecting and didn't have her eyes scarred by this unique event.  Thank goodness one of us was able to be spared.  It does make a good story, right?  I actually like that crazy stuff happens every now and again, it makes the trip more memorable.

Most of the rest of the trip was mostly uneventful, we went to the tea house which was awesome, it was totally Tibetan Monk themed, there were no products served that monks wouldn't eat, so no soy, nuts, sugar, processed foods, nightshades, some other things.  I really liked it.  And the lady working there who's name was Ash, totally a hippie but she didn't smell like a hippie so that was good, was totally awesome.  She was super nice and helpful and made us feel totally comfortable and welcome.  It was so nice.  I think that Ann and I really were able to talk with each other and feel super relaxed and unpressured.  I honestly feel that we bonded more during our Mission Street expedition than the whole rest of our trip so I'm really happy we went. 

Oh, we didn't have any children, either, the dads took them to a really cool children's museum under the golden gate bridge.  I'll post pictures of that soon, I promise. 

71 emails in my inbox...Yeah, I'm back from vacation.

Sometimes vacations need to be followed by another shot of vacations.  I come back to work and immediately I find news that stresses me out to no end.  I wish I could just not care but I do.  Anyone know anywhere that's hiring a semi-intelligent watershed ranger with a pretty good understanding of algae and water treatment, water management, dam management and Cryptosporidium prevention? Cause I'm your girl.

Came back to a moldy sucky office, too.  Isn't that just awesome. 

I'm gonna try to spend some time talking about California throughout the week as time permits.  I hope I do get the time...we will see. 

Anyway, I have 71 emails to check and respond to before I can do anything else. 

I'm back, baby, I'm back.

sunny cali, day 2

So its all going pretty well in california. The travel out with asher was 1oo% better than last time so that was nice. Sad thing is we are all either getting colds or severly allergic to something because we are all congested. We are working on medicating to appropriately solve the problem.

So yesterday we went to the Makers Faire, which is pretty much a nerd festival of awesome proportions. Amd heavily steam punk oriented. I personally think steam punk is under ratted. I love it. We rode a solar powered carousel which was painted completely white. We didnt take our laptop or i would have posted some pics to go with this blog. We also had our first round of awesome california garlic fries. Yum! We later went to the mountian view festival, much to ry's dislike of festivals. Im pretty sure he had a good time at both.

Today we went hiking in coyote hills which was nice. Its a park set in foothills and saltmarsh. Very neat scenery. Also, there was a ton of wild dill growing everywhere which was cool. And canada geese. I just cant seem to get away from stupid canada geese.

The bad thing that happened, tho, was that when we were trying to wrangle the kids in the car jason put the camera (his super expensive tricked out camer) on top of the car and asked me to remind him of it. My head is all foggy from sickness or allergies or something and i forgot about it and so did he. We were going down the road and i heard 'thump bump' and remembered. His camera is trashed. I feel horrible. :(

Anyway, theres my quick update.

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And I said, eh hey hey, I said hey, what's going on?

So, sitting in meetings here for me goes something like this. 

I had a vision of a very common place

I'm pretty sure there's a black obelisk in the lab hallway this morning.  Well, honestly, it's much more of a thin box than an obelisk but, still, you know?  It wasn't there yesterday and it's just a solid thin box.  I wonder if I'm gonna evolve or level up soon.  I hope I don't level up to diabetes. 

Cake show was Awesome last night.  I had such a good time with the Jesses and Jess P.'s exboy Peter.  He was pretty cool.  But very intense.  I'd hang with him again, though.  Cake played a double set (they told us they were opening for themselves), the parking at the Masonic Temple was free (yes, free.  I couldn't believe it, either.  I mean, it's Cleveland.  Nothing is free in the Cleve), the feel was good, the music was great and it was such a nice night.  They gave away a free tree to a guy last night but he had to promise to plant it, take a pic and send it to the website.  Then he also had to promise to send a pic every couple of year as an update.  How eco-clever of Cake.  I love them just a little bit more than I already loved them.  They played so much off their very first album (which is my favorite) so I was super duper happy.  Oh and JJ gave me a super awesome magnet because she's awesome. 

Although I think I might have annoyed her on the car ride home.  Sorry if I was more annoying than usual, I was pretty tired not that that's an excuse or anything.  Public apology, check!

DM says you're gonna die, Roll a d6

This goes down as one of my favorite songs ever.  It's so awesome I think I might listen to it on repeat.  I wonder where asher gets that trait from....hmm...


I sucked so bad at fencing last night, which is sad because it was my last class all summer.  It made me really sad.  I think that perhaps that I have not progressed as well as everyone else in my class and so I'm just not as good as everyone else.  And I can't practice unless I get my own gear which is $150 minimum (probably more expensive if I get a nice grip and with shipping).  So, yeah, I'm a little bummed out about it.  But my bro and Martin were good and showed off in front of their girls so that's all good.  I just felt like garbage, cause I felt like I was kinda good for all of a few weeks.  It's okay.  I'll just watch Princess Bride and pretend I'm Inigo Montoyo.  He loses but he's so awesome it doesn't matter and he wins in the end so it's all good.

Fuck that shit, gonna rob a bank, need twenty thousand dollars to make me crazy

I think I'm going to be posting sporadically for the next two weeks, I have a lot going on and then I'm going on vacation.  Hopefully you won't miss me too much.