i hate when you're right

salted cashews in ice cream soup taste worse than tears.

Palace of the Legion of Honor

I stood beneath the thinker,
watching as the clouds passed overhead
his body shrouded in muscles,
skin that turns darker with age.

i wish people would stop dying.

or, more selfishly to the point, i wish they would stop dying on the caltrain tracks and setting commuters back 1-2 hours.

i hate tapas bars

the food is good. the drinks are good.

the prices are exorbitant and the wait is not worth it. who on earth pays money to be seen eating in a restaurant off of tiny little plates with little portions and still be hungry?! how on earth is that remotely worth it?!

the anti-restaurant and the anti-buffet. i can't believe i'm paying for this.

things that boggle the mind and things that i finally understand

BOGGLE:

1. saw a license plate that said "yesterday is tomorrow."  really? wtf.

2. janelle monae's forward moonwalk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgbzNHVg0c

she's my favorite new artist. lady gaga watch out! and beyonce..just get out of the way.

CRASHING WORLD ALTERING REALIZATIONS:

1. omgwtfbbq: oh my god what the fuck barbeque?

as Kevin Spacey would say...WRONG! or..he would say....

oh my god what the fuck BITCH BE QUIET!

totally makes sense now.

2. bulimia - why do it?

ate a mcd's cheeseburger yesterday, and it seriously felt like lead in my stomach.  if bulimics feel like that when they eat..i totally understand why they just throw up afterwards.

still being optimistic

my friend from UCLA came up this weekend! so we've been hanging out since yesterday.

but god, everything before that just wasn't so good.

well, good things first!

1. carmen's here! and she'll brighten anyone's day!

  she got here yesterday, and wow, it was guitar hero heaven. + food. which just makes life worth living. we went to McCarthy Ranch with her friends, and i found... STINKY TOFU. you could smell it from a block away. pretty freaking amazing. she tried a piece and i think she kinda threw up in her mouth. i also tried an avocado smoothie for the first time, and it was extremely grassy and refreshing. not the type of grassy that get you high...but the end result was good enough. made you feel all fluffy inside.

the festivities continue today!

is that the end of the good things? i think it might be.

well then...not so good things.

1. me and carmen got haircuts..and i know i've been wanting to grow it out, but i couldnt resist and chopped it all off. for 15 bucks. i think you can imagine how horrible a 15 dollar supposedly precision haircut influenced by poorly trained asian hairdressers turns out.

you guessed it. absolutely horrid.

oh well, it'll grow out, and i think i'll spike it and look like a lesbian. just for kicks.

2. i had an interview at a marketing firm. the prelim interview took place on tuesday. when i walked in they were playing lady gaga and ne yo and all those good artists in the reception area.  odd, i thought, but okay. i like the music. i can get down.

the interviewer walked by and kinda did a double take when he saw me. is it cuz i'm really tall? is it cuz i'm extremely weird looking? is it yellow fever?  whatever.

then i walked in for the interview.  white guy, kinda short, stocky build. definitely one of those cool bosses. he introduced himself as michael. he was wearing a dark grey suit with a blue dress shirt and some type of generic dark striped tie. then, he started talking about sales, leadership, and whether or not i take rejection well.

then, he mentioned paper products.

is anyone else thinking of the office now? seriously. i never realized the genius of that show until i went to that interview.

so he calls and invites me to a second interview the next day.

2. these people are basically commuting salesmen. they each have a territory in the south bay, and they drive to different shopping plazas, walk from store to store, and push owners and office managers to buy their office supplies.

during the second interview i had to shadow one of these people, and was basically walking around all day.  they hadn't told me i'd be doing that, so i was in heels and a suit the whole day. needless to say, i wasn't very happy, and i was almost embarrassed to be associated with the salesguy, because he was SO FREAKIN PUSHY.

i really don't think i can ever work retail. oh well. that's the end of that.

3. i'd interviewed for an internship last week, and was supposed to hear on thursday if i'd gotten it.

i didn't.

4. interviewed for a different pt editing job on thursday in sf. i've basically been going to sf for these things, so basically a 2.5 hour commute for around 30 minutes of face time. don't know if it was worth it..i just got an email requesting writing samples..so i guess that means i still have a chance?

ok then. i guess i can look to next week with some hope...maybe i'll finally get a job.

at any rate, i had a great friend come over to remedy my less than perfect week.

and that's always a good thing.

food day with the great ANDY

for some reason, when i met up with roland and andy i decided to wear the same exact outfit i always wore at tsuru. time warp big time. fit in with the alice in wonderland theme.

at any rate...


GUESS WHAT I DID THIS WEEKEND!


7X7 magazine put out a list of 100 things to try before you die on FOOD, and since andy lives near/in the mission district, we went to two of the places there on the list.

the first one on the left is at margherita pizza at pizzeria delfina. yay andy!

i couldn't have found a better place to completely 180 my horrible clam chowder experience on thursday. the sauce was salty and fresh, which worked with the mozzarella, which i always find to be a somewhat bland cheese. the crust was crispy on the bottom, but still had a layer of soft and chewy dough just above that. the perfect way to suck up the tomato juice. and it just made it more interesting to eat than a single layer of cracker crust..which just makes me think i'm eating a very expensive tortilla chip. only thing is, wish there had been more basil. i love basil.

next up was ice cream at the bi-rite creamery! the line was out the door, and was curving around the corner by the time we'd gotten our fix. the recommended one was salty caramel, which was delicious. the white one was ginger, which i liked even more. they have really offbeat flavors there...first one that comes to mind is roasted banana, which someone in the line said was really good.

the reason it's in a bowl is cuz i originally only asked for a cone, but when i tried to pay for my ice cream the ice cream tipped over onto the counter. i wailed and picked it up and stuck it back on. the lady asked me if i wanted a new one, but i figured it was still good. she gave me a bowl though, just in case.

god san francisco is full of hippies. the ice cream store used sustainable ingredients, and all of the bowls and stuff were made out of recycled materials. that meant the counter was probably cleaned with something non-toxic. right? RIGHT? whatever it's three days later and i'm still fine.

yay for hippie thinking.

after...went to market street for some shopping. everything i like is way out of my unemployed price range, so all i did was look. andy succeeded in buying a pair of pants that actually manages to make his ass look flat..wonder of wonders.

ended our day with none other than happy hour at bar norcini. lucia with a beer. who knew?


















well, our ending thought was this:

"sex in a public bathroom?

yeah..that's exactly what beer smells like."

god, the party is just about to begin.