oh hai! it's been a while, hasn't it? well, to start, i have some pictures from saturday to show off.

saturday, i took BART for the first time. i even had to change trains! it all went ok, even though i had to ask a couple of people to make sure i was getting on the right trains. eventually, though, i found my way to the rockridge stattion in oakland. here is a picture of my Very First BART Ticket:



i like the way it glows, like some artifact sent from heaven.

next was breakfast, even though it was almost 1. i went to the rockridge cafe:
and had their corned beef hash. my waitress was really nice. she looked like julia stiles and steered me in the direction of the most delicious coffee cake i have ever shovelled into my mouth. i was sitting at the counter, so i got to watch the cooks work, and there was always someone passing through to refill my coffee.

i spent a few hours walking around on college avenue in oakland. it is a neat area; i would have liked to spend more time there, but i had to get home (via BART again! holla!) so that i could have dinner with uncle george and aunt mary jo. it hadn't rained all day, but it started almost pouring then they were driving me home.

me on saturday, pretty pleased with myself:


sunday: thrift stores on telegraph and shattuck. i found a jacket that at first looks to be some silly, useless windbreaker -- but lo! it is fleece-lined! i wore it today, and, man, was it cozy. i'm also trying to track down some shoes, and it is proving difficult. after thrift stores, i went to berkeley bowl. ugh, it was right when they were closing, and everyone was extremely stupid. at the bus stop, a woman asked my advice about her employer's habit of giving her a $20 cash bonus every week -- was this legal? should she accept it? i did not know. it rained off and on -- these fine drops that were sometimes just a mist and sometimes a thin shower.

as promised, here is the front door of my house. i have never used this door, but i have gone through a side door in our apartment that leads into the stairway, and someday i will have to get pictures of that for you, because this house is INCREDIBLE and was built by some maniac medievalist dentist.

today at work, i finished copying those gary snyder letters. at some point, i'll have to do ginsberg's, probably. then i had to use a very silly and complicated program to update production schedules for the books we're working on. the program is so silly and convoluted that i don't even want to try to explain it.

on the way home, i stopped at a diner and bought a meatloaf sandwich to take home for dinner. it was ok; it definitely suffered because of the half hour it took me to get home.