just to clear up some confusion... this is a picture of my aunt Linny. we were on a hike in the Oakland hills with our cousin Alan. it was rainy and super muddy. we had a joke about the hat. so, here she is wearing the hat.


hat

getting ready to go hiking

"and i'm even going to bring hat"

What's your duck type?

it must have been music to his... nose

today at tower records i saw a weird man smelling CD's. i wonder if that is how he selects which ones to buy? i love san francisco.

shit shit shit

you know, last night when i parked on the side of the street with friday street cleaning from 12noon-2pm i knew it was a bad idea. for some reason though, i told myself that i'd be awake before noon and just needed to leave myself a note to move my car. did i wake up before 12noon? sure i did. did i leave myself a note? NOPE! did i remember to move my car when i heard the street cleaner out in front of the house at 1pm while i was in the garage getting the mail? YEP. did i get a $35 ticket today? also, YEP.

ARGH!

Rob and Jon at Theo's

Outreach... or Reaching Out

so, this morning i am doing outreach at city college of san francisco. i think i encountered a question at my info table that could make the top 10 list of weird questions asked to a student assistant.

a strange guy came up to me and asked, "what is your job here?"

i replied, "i work for san francisco state and i'm here to talk to students about transferring to san francisco state."

(simple enough? ummmm... i guess not)

then he says, "well, do you have a camera? because i would pay you $50 to take pictures of me."

all i could croak out was, "sorry, i don't have a camera."

my brother Never Does...

Happy 23rd Birthday Jon!


My brother Jon and me 

Steph's place

The Cutest Green House

where do i live you ask? in this cute green house, where else? no, really, can you see that little green door to the side of the garage door? it's the way in to the hallway that leads to the back of the house where Stephanie's adorable one bedroom in-law unit is. it is quite cozy back here.

*snort*

today my step-sister told me that she snorted with laughter while reading my blog. i felt so proud!

Grand Lake theater in Oakland

Grand Lake theater... I guess they didn't vote for Bush

sleepover at Linny's

my cousin amy came into town from Santa Cruz since it was a holiday weekend. on Saturday afternoon we drove out to Oakland so we could stay the night with my aunt (her Mom) Linny. the three of us grabbed burritos and snuck them into a movie. it was fun, but a little messy. note to self- get more napkins next time you sneak burritos into a dark movie theater. we stayed up late, slept in late, and then went for a long walk around Piedmont. check out the picture above. i thought it was enough of a statement to walk back in the morning and take a picture of it. gotta love the liberal Bay Area!


the view from Linny's balcony

Poo-berry muffins

don't eat these muffins!

so i awoke this morning to both the sound of stephanie in the kitchen and to the delightful smell of freshly baked blueberry muffins... what i didn't awaken to was the small print on the side of the box that said "Excessive consumption may have a laxative effect"
DON'T ASK

i've set a record

i just wanted to let you all (my 4 readers) know that i slept in on friday until 11am!

woo hoo!

also, stephanie showed me how to get pictures onto my blog, so as soon as i get the hang of that you'll see more images. aren't you excited?

if any of my other blogging friends want to show me how to do other cool things with my blog, i'm always eager to learn new things. *hint hint*

ps. happy 24th birthday lindsay and joe!

argh

i'm in some weird funk tonight... is anyone else out there in a weird funk? i wish i knew why i was feeling so blah.

i'm in one of those moods where i can't even find internal motivation to move from my couch to my bed so i could go to sleep. the warmth from my laptop is so familiar that it feels like it's my friend. alright, i'm getting hungry now, definitely a sign that i'm up too late. i'll go now.

I didn't realize how "special" my high school was

i recently found out that the high school i went to back in the day now requires auditions to get in. thank god i went there when i did... i never would have passed frickin auditions! ha!

http://enrollmentoptions.sandi.net/scpa/auditionguide.html

lindsay is crazy

i only have a few little things about my day worth sharing... one is that lindsay is so crazy. she called me when she was leaving work and decided that she needed a girls night. i was totally down for it, so we had dinner and went running around town buying some necessary sleep over stuff for her spontaneous decision. after doing what we do best (some silliness) we started to get ready for bed. then, right before she was going to jump into the shower and get ready for bed, she called out "oh f*ck!" and realized that she had to go home because she left a book there. believe it or not, that freak still took a shower, put on her pj's, and then drove home to san mateo. hahahaha! i guess you have to really know us to appreciate this rediculous evening.


Is she really going to stab me?

the other thing that i did today that was exciting was i started thinking about the road trip that monica and i are planning in june. she lives in north carolina right now and i am going to fly out there after i graduate to drive back across the country with her. i am so excited! i delightfully procrastinated on my homework by hanging out with this really cool large road atlas that stephanie has here in her place. as some of you may know, i'm secretly a map junky (what do you think about that, reader #4?) and i just loved looking at the different interstate highways and planning our route back to california. i realized that i am going to get to see so many cities that i have never been to. how cool. i'll write more about that as monica and i discuss and plan. YAY a girl's road trip! what better way for 2 best friends to celebrate the summertime, and both of them graduating with masters degrees, and Monica's final moments before she gets married!?

i'm back

hello bay area, i'm back! i had a good weekend in san diego, saw everyone i wanted to see, wanted to relax more but my homework didn't allow for much of that. it felt great to be home, but then when i got back here today i felt like i was home... again. how can that be, when one person has 2 totally different cities that feel equally like home? as my new friend calls me, i guess i truly am a San Frandiegan. i mean, just sitting on muni with my mini ipod felt like home. it was weird because muni is usually too stinky to be equivalent to anything other that a bathroom... anyways...

i am so tired right now, you'll have to excuse my babbling. you think i talk a lot from day to day, just get me when i'm like an over-tired 2-year-old. it's not a pretty sight. haha! i can babble endlessly and sometimes i even start kicking my legs around in tantrum mode. why am i sharing this? oh yeah, i'm tired and demonstrating my babbling skills. alright, i'd better go now. i just wanted to say a quick little hello to my favorite city... it feels good to be back in SF.

dude!

my mom said to me today, "who calls their mother dude?"

hello from san diego

i'm writing this morning from San Diego. i flew down here yesterday after taking Muni from Steph's place to Embarcadero, then getting on BART to the Oakland coliseum, and then the AirBART shuttle to the airport.... egads, what a journey.

believe it or not, it's pouring rain down here! argh. and, it was so beautiful in the Bay Area over the last few days. do i miss it? i don't know yet...

anyways, i'm here now, and i'm blissfully sitting on my awesome leather couch and watching the Oprah shows that i asked Sasha to save for me from the last few weeks on the DVR. it's like heaven! also, sleeping in my own bed last night was great too. i wanted to lie in there awake for as long as i could just so i could consciously enjoy it.

well, ok, i gotta get back to my couch and my tv... how am i ever going to get any homework done this weekend? eeeek. plus, i'm off to pilates with my Dad soon, so i'd better get ready for that too. write to ya later!