Daily Archives: October 26, 2008

a person jumping on a levee crushing beans 0

:P

I had a lot of fun this weekend. On Sunday, Hector and I went out to Anthem at the Blue Lamp. It was dead since we got there rather early, so we drank out of my trunk for a while and talked. After a bit, Mario arrived so we went in. The music really sucked, the only things I could decipher from the continuous untz-untz-untz-untz was MGMT and a heavily distorted bit of Simian Mobile Disco. We left the Blue Lamp and drove over to join Mario’s friend Lupita at this this trashy costume party at Silk.

The party wasn’t my scene, but everyone was so trashed that having a good time was contagious. After we had our fill of Little Red Riding Hoes, I drove us to the Kasbah where we got snacks and sobered up.

The next day I went over to Christen’s house for breakfast. She didn’t have any stuff that was quite ready to eat, so we decided to go grocery shopping. It ended up being this amusing quest carried out via light rail where we visited Trader Joe’s, the co-op, and Safeway. We had lunch at the co-op, and headed back to her place to walk her dog and hang out.

For some reason, we both really wanted to go out and do something, so we posted this quixotic ad on Craigslist asking for people that wanted to drive to San Francisco. A few minutes later, Christen called Chelsea, and she invited us to come over to her place.

We had some wine and ended up taking crazy pictures with this pink wig. The whole time, we were making drawings for scenes for this movie Christen and I are making…some of the unintended interpretations were hilarious.

After that, we went and walked around midtown, eventually settling on a stoop in front of the Merc. We talked about the future for a long time.

africa (you chew my mind up) 1

So, the Africa thing.

I’m going on a press trip for my magazine to Africa sometime in February. It’s going to be 10 days, I believe, and we will be in the Victoria Falls area during that time.

I couldn’t find any of my friends that had a thousand dollars to spend on the airfare to come with, so I mentioned on here that I was looking for someone to go with. Amanda’s sister Sarah e-mailed me and we set up all the details (replete with politically incorrect jokes about colonialism), and we are going to have this awesome African experience.

I felt trepidation, then excitement, then more trepidation. I’m going to have to get antimalarial drugs somehow before I leave…I’m not looking forward to dealing with the medical establishment.

I never thought I would ever go to Africa, but I here I go anyway. I have no idea how to feel about it other than vaguely excited.