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Last few days here in SF, but the man himself, Martin M. has made his way over the Atlantic and is hangin out with me and we are even flying back together. It is like he came over especially cause he knows I have too much stuff to take back. Anyway, my last days have been good, last weekend I went out with Noah and Becki and we played beer pong (I hear, quite the fraternity game) at a party - we played the version with broken table tennis bats - and despite fancying myself to anihilate my opposition Becki and I lost by a whisker. Rounded off the evening in this place called Elbo Room watching a James Brown Tribute Band. Saturday I played Squash at 4 for the first time in a month which was fun and had some beers with Richard, an English guy from Squash, and then stayed in and watched the Wire for like 5 hours. Hard to believe but it just gets better and better. Sunday I finally bought my new favourite shoes on Haight St. with pretty Miss T. and then Ben cooked some as always great food. On Tuesday Martin, Winnie, Sandra and I and Ben and Noah watched Baseball in Oakland, quite the experience but the game itself sucked. Oakland's first hit was a homerun and they never scored after that and lost 1:2. Have to say not a place to drink tasty beer and healthy food or talk about anything else than Baseball or bad TV, but we had a great time. Wednesday Martin and myself hung out with Elizabeth and drank German beer and today we had Peruvian food, which was very limey and we had the most fun ride to work today with aforementioned Elizabeth in her totally cool BMW. Flying back on Sunday anyway and will make sure to have quite the fun time til then and make sure SF will really miss me.
Always totally up for some self-criticism and this is kind of funny:
I decided to do my washing today, and I always have to go on the second floor to do so. I dont like doing it cause the light hasnt been working so I always have to fiddle with the door to see what I am doing. So it takes me like a minute to get there and halfway there I remember I forgot one of my Tshirts so I go back to get it. Then I go back and fiddle with the door just to notice that all washing machicnes are full so I walk back with my stuff. 15 mintues later I go back again and fill my stuff in only to discover that my washing card had run out of credit. So I had to go back again and exchange cards and go back and switch it on, fiddling with the stupid door of course every f***ing time. Finally, with my washing running I go back and return after 35minutes and start loading my stuff into the cleaner. So in come this dude and I am like "hey man, this broken light is real annoying!" and he is like "Em, the light switch is right here!". And the guy was right, it is right next to the entrance. However, you have to turn it cause it switches itself off after how ever far you turn it. I always thought it was an air conditioner or so.
Anyway, after walking there and back 5.5 times tonight and fiddling with the goddamn door every time I finally got my washing done. Quite the achievement I like to think.
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Now playing:
Born Ruffians - Merry Little Fancy Thingsvia FoxyTunes
I have been to many concerts lately, mainly due to the courtesy of Ben, who organised a bunch of tickets. There were three shows in total, two being great, one average. The most hyped up band was pretty average, Vampire Weekend and the front band pretty much sucked. I mean they were fine but more or less as expected and I am not a super huge fan of theirs. Far better were Born Ruffians with Cadence Weapon! If you are into hiphop you should check CW out, he is really smth. else. Lastly I watched Tokyo Police Club who were super. I bought like 6 CDs and 2 Tshirts at two of the shows, but who gives a damn with the weak dollar, hey? Anyway, they were real fun and we went out afterwards and I also went out with my good French friend Matthieu on his final day here, which was fun too. We had a romantic dinner to two before, ha, which we were totally comfortable with of course. I wasnt so comfortable with paying 42$ for a pitcher of Margherita on the other hand.
Okay, apart from that I spent Easters at Winnie's Mum's place which was real fun and the food was great and we went to Berkely afterwards and I bought some CDs and had some great coffee at Pete's. That is pretty much it, been having fun otherwise lately taking things easy and enjoying the everyday sunshine. Have also made a personal committment to living healthier, which is working great and am eating salad an fruit every day (secretely it is cause I put on weight that I am eating healthier) and getting certain things in life sorted out, like credit cards and missing driving licences. I also thought I would buy a car when I am back in Dublin, yeah, why not.
So, long time no posts but hopfully I can make up for that by posting a bunch of pictures. The last time I posted was in the middle of the coastal Califinia trip, of which you will see a bunch of pictures here. In the end we ended up in a bunch of places following San Luis Obispo, namely Santa Barbara and Santa Monica and Venice Beach (the cool house top right we saw there). I had actually been in Venice Beach when I was in LA last time but only really realised once we were driving through it. Venice Beach was one of my favourite places and we had some great breakfast there and saw some cool people (incl. the sufers) and I rebought my sunglasses there, after mine broke dramatically after just one week of wearing them - thankfully we passed the exact same shop secod time around in Venice, ha! Santa Monica was cool too and we went to this restaurant called Bubba Gumps - you may remember it from Forrest Gump.
We stayed in Venice until Saturday midday and then Annika (the great driver that she is) drove all the way back on Saturday to San Francisco. I was back to work the week after that and watched "Be kind - rewind" with Winnie which was super, I'd say 88%. Otherwise Annika, Ben and I went to some great restaurants (a lot of Sushi), a cool dive bar called Phone Booth - the only bar in which you can semi-legally smoke here (I played the same song twice in a row on the jukebox which made me look like an ass) and to a really nice Italian restaurant called Cafe Sport - which had super food for little money (which is not uncommon for San Francisco). The last day we went to Alcatraz, which was probably one of the nicest days I have spent in SF so far as the weather was really great and the Audio Tour as loads of fun. Before that I found myself once again in a Vegetarian restaurant for brunch.
That has pretty much been my two weeks since my last post - this week, since Annika being gone - I was hanging out a bit with my French friend Mathieu here and yesterday we had an offsite at Lake Tahoe, where most people went skiing but I was too lazy to organise sufficient ski gear for myself so I went snow-tubing and just generally hung out a while.
Today I got up early and Elizabeth and Ben and I had some tasty breakfast at this place called Bugaloos. Funnyt hing in SF is you really have to get to places early and reserve or sign up and wait like 30mins, people just love going out for food here so there is always a wait at popular places.
Right now I am sitting in a Jazz bar enjoying an afternoon Austrian beer and may be going to Dolores park with Elizabeth and her friends. Tomorrow I might spend in Berkely or just hang out, kind of undecided depending on how I fare today. Anyways, updates to follow a bit more frequent going forward so keep checking. I actually bought an adapter for my camera so I can finally use that again and not rely on other people. Thing to note though that most nice pictures you see here were taken by Annika, my photography talents are somewhat limited.
Last few days here in SF, but the man himself, Martin M. has made his way over the Atlantic and is hangin out with me and we are even flying back together. It is like he came over especially cause he knows I have too much stuff to take back. Anyway, my last days have been good, last weekend I went out with Noah and Becki and we played beer pong (I hear, quite the fraternity game) at a party - we played the version with broken table tennis bats - and despite fancying myself to anihilate my opposition Becki and I lost by a whisker. Rounded off the evening in this place called Elbo Room watching a James Brown Tribute Band. Saturday I played Squash at 4 for the first time in a month which was fun and had some beers with Richard, an English guy from Squash, and then stayed in and watched the Wire for like 5 hours. Hard to believe but it just gets better and better. Sunday I finally bought my new favourite shoes on Haight St. with pretty Miss T. and then Ben cooked some as always great food. On Tuesday Martin, Winnie, Sandra and I and Ben and Noah watched Baseball in Oakland, quite the experience but the game itself sucked. Oakland's first hit was a homerun and they never scored after that and lost 1:2. Have to say not a place to drink tasty beer and healthy food or talk about anything else than Baseball or bad TV, but we had a great time. Wednesday Martin and myself hung out with Elizabeth and drank German beer and today we had Peruvian food, which was very limey and we had the most fun ride to work today with aforementioned Elizabeth in her totally cool BMW. Flying back on Sunday anyway and will make sure to have quite the fun time til then and make sure SF will really miss me.
