Oh, the places I've traveled since we last spoke. I'm typing at you now from a comfortable cat-covered couch in Towson, Maryland, watching the pundits dissect Bill's DNC speech. But I digress. After the last adventure I chronicled, I was visited by Super Sorch, the hippest non-Texan to ever bless Texass with her bad-ass self. We flew a kite in the fog at Ocean Beach, hiked Muir Woods, and spotted Jonathan Richman at the vegan store in the Mission. (Yes, he's a vegan.)
After sending Sorch back to her adopted state, I road tripped out to suburban Sacromento ("Sacto" to you locals) to visit my high school friends Laura and Mike and their cute little munchkins, where we bounced on their trampoline and made airplanes from shoeboxes. Laura plied me with plenty of books for my next adventure the following day -- reading to Ms. Heller's first grade class at the Epiphany School. I read them five books (What! Cried Granny was the hands-down fave), after which the class drew pictures of their favorite story and gave them to me as a thank-you. Soooooooo cute.
Then last Thursday I Jet-Blued my way to NYC, to hang with Leslie and Jen for the weekend. On Friday I dodged both raindrops and tourists on Canal Street to contribute to undermining copyright law by buying fake LV Murakami bags. Unemployed and losing all sense of time as the days go by, I took my time to wander around the stores several times before buying anything, and kept running across a large, heavyset Italian guy walking from booth to booth, which I didn't think much of until I witnessed one of the many Chinese merchants handing the Italian guy a wad of $100 bills. Heh. Can you say MOB?
Other highlights of the weekend included mass shopping at H&M, a hundred-cheese fondue dinner at Artesanal, shvitzing at the Russian & Turkish Baths, lots of girltalk, socializing, and potato pancakes. Good stuff.
Now I'm near Baltimore plotting my next adventures with Professor Okamura, despite the drippy Maryland summer rain. Rain in the SUMMER? I'm confused. And though I'm trying my hardest to stay on CA time, I'm once again staying awake far past my hosts, so it's time to call it a night.
Posted by jen at July 26, 2004 09:58 PM | TrackBack