2003-11-02

Big times, big times. First off, I'd like to say that I finally launched my review site, so you all have to come to SF, eat somewhere and then write a review for me. Sounds delish, no?

I think it was, oh, Wednesday that I pointed out I'm always out of sorts with my dress code. Monday I wore corduroys and it was 90�. Wednesday I had on short sleeves and no coat. It was 55�.

Friday, it started raining around 4:30. By 5:15, when I was ready to get as far the fuck away from work as possible, it was still raining. Naturally, I had a cardigan on, no umbrella and was riding my bike.

I submitted to the fact I would be drenched when I got home, and hopped on ye ole huffy. About half a mile in, after I was already dripping and chaffing (neither in a good way) it started to hail. More accurately, the sky began hurling sharp hard things at my face.

I pulled over under an awning, waited for the hail to turn into a nice forceful downpour, and got back on the road. I made it to the train and entered, freezing and soaked.

When I got off the train in SF? Dry. No rain. Anywhere. Strangeness.

I got changed into my $10 Walgreen's polyester vampire dress that had been oh-so-good to me for the past five years. We had a mere two trick-or-treaters. I should have given them two bags of candy each. Oh how my love handles lament that I didn't.

Then it was off to the circus known as the Castro. I went to a soir�e smack in the middle of that asinine 10-block party. 1 out of every 10 people was dressed up. I mean "had on a boa" or something narrowly festive. Everyone else was taking pictures, looking too cool to bother or generally gawking.

Pathetic. I ended up walking far beyond my limit, making it home at 2:30 with some tired-ass appendages. Then I ate a hot dog.

Yesterday? I saw Etta James. It was pretty disappointing. Her voice was GREAT, but she sat the whole time and her guitar player stood directly between she and I, so I saw her for .001 seconds. Also? Her band was kind of, um, like easy listening. She didn't do an encore although we screamed for fifteen minutes.

Yesterday I also built a cabinet purchased from Le Targ�t. All went swimmingly until I worked on the hinged doors and attached them three times incorrectly. Brilliant am I.