San Francisco

Posted 09:44 AM, September 24, 2006, by saerni

Today I took a trip to the city! We went to visit a friend I've known for 13 years (since 6th grade), Beth. She is a graduate student at SFSU and living in the Cathedral Hill district with her college friend Julie. She works in Menlo Park at the VA hospital on post-traumatic stress disorder. She's hoping to get her PhD eventually.

Although I didn't actually get to see their apartment, it sounds amazing. It's a 2-story loft at the top on the 12th floor. We may even have to donate our Lovesac to them, mostly because we don't have the space.

They both have funny stories about walking around that area. Beth had a guy follow her home with his hands on either side of his face, like an open peek-a-boo. Julie was walking home chatting on the phone, when she realized a woman walking directly behind her was repeating every word she was saying. Their friend, Danielle, took the elevator up to their apartment yesterday, and a guy covered in blood rode up with her.

Yesterday was the LoveFest in San Francisco. Hye Jin ventured out during the day and saw fully naked men walking around. I'll leave the details to your imagination. While we were driving in we saw our own set of people. The picture isn't so great since it was night time, but it features a couple bunnies and an Ali G character (which happens to be one of the 3 characters from one of my favorite shows).

We went out to a little Tapas place, which was delicious. While we were waiting for our seat we went to a wine bar. It was very cute. Since I was designated driver, I just had a small sip, but it was quite good, and I am NOT a wine person. After this we waited about 30 minutes for a cab, sang some tunes, and dance a can can.

We went down to the Marina, where we ventured into a couple of bars. They were very packed. The people there were mostly like what I was used to. This is where we met with Hye Jin. She is a law student up here in the city. The picture below of all of us took about 3 takes. The photographer was a good sport though!

There was also a super tall guy in the bar. I decided to stand next to him to see how much taller he was, and Julie snapped a picture. With the shoes I was wearing I'm about 6'1, so that gives you an idea of his height. He was standing at the bar making "come hither" eyes at every girl who was alone. I don't think this was quite what he had in mind.

When we got back to Cathedral Hill, Ryan and I walked to the car. There was a large drag queen standing by an "Adult" club that our car was parked next to. He was shouting extremely animated and obscene comments at Ryan, which I most admit was amusing since they weren't at me. The drive back down to Mountain View wasn't terrible long (about 35 minutes), but I was pretty tired! I can't say I'll be able to survive frequent weekend trips to the city. I'll have to convince Beth to join Julie down in this area occasionally, and make some new friends down here as well. If nothing else, I'll be sure that I can focus!

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