After I got off work today I headed back to the Thai place to have my favorite soup (for Lunch and Dinner! Portions are huge!) Powell Cable Car and Union Square were packed today! People everywhere, it really does come and go by the day of the week.
I dropped my stuff off at the hostel so I could lighten my load and decided to do a shopping preview of the Goodwill on Mission and S. Van Ness. Its a huge place and when you walk in you are greeted with a sea of clothes. And this goodwill is host to so many kinds of people and so many people in general that they don't bother to organize the clothes by size, it's just a free fer all. No joke. Shirts dresses, pants! You just have to start at one end and work your way through them. It's really annoying. But after having spent some time sifting I can see why. People in California have this terrible habit of being pigs and they throw their unwanted stuff onto any hook in any place, if it will hang they'll put it there. I mean, seriously?!
The dressing room attendant has to monitor how many things you bring into your room and also if they all have their tags on. My first dressing room, I discovered someone had spit on the floor...because that's okay here.
The amount of tolerance in this city is really a pity?! People have gotten away with so much it seems no big deal to not take care of anything or any place. I don't really find that encouraging about humanity. They have full time security in the store and the bums can come in and sift through everything as they please (I mean it is a store, they are allowed in...) I had just had my fill of crazy today and was not in the mood to be shuffled around by a homeless lady seemingly interested in every rack I was looking through. Sheesh!
This morning (at 5AM~who's in ANY mood at that time??!) an absolutely bat sh*t crazy lady got on the bus and proceeded to yell, using all of her personalities, out into the bus until she finally got off. It was a bit much. People don't even flinch. You know I sound so snobby about that but I bet if that happened in Idaho people would be so shocked they'd do nothing as well. The driver didn't even look up to see what she was doing (she was moving around the bus, sharing the love, or satan, either one?!)
The other crazy was at the biodiesel station today. A couple of crazy people who turned out to be quite a pair were trying to fuel, but the ycoudn't seem to teh car in just the right spot, then they had to play with the lock and unlock of the fuel door. Then they had to debate with us about whether the government was monitoring their fueling. It was pretty wild. I thought at first that there was a homeless man trying to direct this lady in her car to the appropriate fuel pump...turns out they were together. It was a good start to that transaction!
Anyways back to Goodwill, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Goodwill wasn't very expensive and the clothes are pretty high end. I found some cheap scarves and a couple of tops and then got out of there.
I had to ride MUNI back up Market to Powell so I hopped onto an F Train which are the old fashioned street cars. It was so fantastic! This specific car was from Philadelphia and was made in 1938. I'm going to ride it again, they are so neat! Very smooth ride too!
On my way home I stopped into Foley's for a pint of Guiness and had it served to me by an Irishman of all people. Now, whether he was genuine or not I don't know but he knew how to pour a Guiness and was very nice.
By this time I've had my dinner and will likely party poop out. I have tomorrow off and I'm on a pancake quest in the morning! Time to hit Chow for my favorite hotcakes!
I got a call from Jordan and he wanted me to do his wine country tour tomorrow, ugh. I said no. What a wimp I am! This tour is the one that includes Benziger and Napa, two places I've not been yet.
At any rate, after trying on clothes that didn't fit still (too fat~I"m walking but not walking my ass off apparently) and being bombarded with crazy and turning down a paying job I SHOULD be able to handle AND having a really lonely pint at the local, I'm feeling pretty blue.
This may be the loneliest summer yet...last year was pretty miserable but at least I had my guests to keep me company. I'm having a serious bout of "I'm feeling sorry for myself" today.
Thank goodness I'm working and have a roof over my head and am in a beautiful sunny city (sunny today! Gorgeous!) see its not so bad. Its just alot of solo time which I'm sick of but too tired to do anything about. Its after 8pm right now and all I can think of is going to bed and sleeping until pancake time! There is a hostel pub crawl tonight which I SHOULD be joining but I'm not sure how much fun I'll be.
On a scale of one to fun, I'll be none!
Ha!
I just got an email from Joe, our station manager, and AT&T is hiring staff to be in a commercial featuring a biodiesel station. $600 per person for the day. I think they are shooting Sunday and I'll be in Yosemite :( wah! But I'm going to the station tomorrow to see what they are all about. Isn't this place funny?!
Oh and another thing...bands I listened to today that you should check out. One local one and others from Jessa my very talented coworker.
Her band is Sugar Shakers (no cd on ITunes I think) Birdmonster~they are really good. Zach is the drummer, he works at Inc Ad. Edward Sharpe, whom I really like. And the Tallest Man on Earth (or something like that) they were all on YouTube for a spot on NPR if you youtube them. Fun! I told the group at Inc Ad that i was the talentless one and they all decided I'm a good story teller so that counts for something! Most of them are in bands or sing or perform. Yeah us!
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