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Things You Never Do
There’s a list of things I never do that I want to do. before you move, you end up doing them all in one week. – practice the cello (I rent one, now I need to PRACTICE) – go to yoga at the Italian American Athletic Club (every time I walk by I write down…
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South Bay Daze
I’m visiting old friends, and they’re showing me around their new house in Santa Clara. While we reminisce, her husband starts cleaning the pool. He drags the net, on a long pole, slowly around the surface. I make some quick remark about how it’s like a zen sand garden. I’m in the sun, shielding my…
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Notes on Being From The West, in the East
Day 7 on my East Coast journey, I’m recognizing more and more by relief, what defines me as a Westerner. For one, the errant cold breeze that can come by you at any time in San Francisco, and necessitates sweaters be accessible at all times. Second, I just can’t feel right training through 8 states…
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9/11 From SF
Just finished reading Penelope Trunk’s 9/11 Memoir. I had no idea she was in the heart of it. Reading that reminded me of my experience of the day, when you think of yourself at the same moment, 2000 miles away. I was on a rare break between West Coast contracts and grounded. The place where…
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Night Sail
Took the ferry Friday over to Sausalito. It’s the best $7.50 I’ve spent in a while. If you catch the 5:30 you’ve got great lighting all the way over, and it’s a really short ferry ride (which I think is a good thing.) Then my friend picked me up and we went over to Tink’s…
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Best Holiday Evah.
As I was lying on my back, a little white wine buzz going on, watching little white clouds stream by overhead, and listening to Midsummer Night’s Dream, I decided this was the most ideal holiday ever. Any holiday where you lie on your back (no innuendo here) repeatedly… two days before I again found myself…
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Social Networks: Real and Imagined
I’m doing two totally new- to me- things this week. Joined Facebook, and I’m going to the Renaissance Faire. Two friends of mine responded to this newness with: “Facebook- why?” Ren Faire: “omg you are desperate for geeky guys.” What I read into those comments is that there is some supposition that neither are real…
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Napping, Writing on BART
My sleeping schedule is wacked. I stopped drinking coffee, then had a double cappuccino at 10pm and stayed up until 4:30. Woke up at 7:00am-ish for three nights in a row, camping. Now back in the real world, woke up at 7am again. North Beach is nice in the morning- folks hosing down the sidewalks…
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Taking BART
I popped out of bed early, bundled up my stuff and walked 20 minutes to Market Street. It was Friday, and damned if I was going to sit in Friday night traffic getting back to the city. So I had planned ahead. I had 3 BART tickets that had been sitting on my desk. One…
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Links & News
So my mom turned me onto a new blogeuse. Monterey News. I’ve been really enjoying it lately. She has an interesting Buddhist approach to life, and her writing is simple and descriptive, and non-conclusive (my pet peeve). She’s in my mom’s Monday Lunch Group- where they talk about anything universal, no grandchildren discussions. I’ve been-…