Well, this is it--we've lived here in California for three great months, but it's finally time to go home. Our time here has been a nice break for me and good work experience for Roo, but we are anxious to get back into real life and gainful employment (in my case). There's a lot to be said for being unemployed, but believe it or not, you can only drive to the library so many times and watch so many re-runs of "America's Next Top Model" before developing a nasty case of cabin fever. Once getting the mail became an "event," I knew I had descended into hermit-ism. I'm ready to re-emerge into society.
However, there are certainly so many things I am going to miss about this unique place:
1. Being flirted with by the girl doing my SMOG check...
2. The mysterious, foreign man on the first floor who got busted because his call girl turned out to be a thief, stealing items of clothing from other tenants' balconies. That never happened once when we lived in Provo!
3. Waiting at the intersection late at night downtown while an obviously drunk woman stumbles out of her cab, kneels on the asphalt, and pukes her guts out for awhile.
4. The staggering number of Obama '08 bumper stickers and Toyota Prius Hybrids.
5. The local news is must-see TV: whereas in Utah, the top local news story is usually about something like third graders finding a beehive in their auditorium, but here in the Bay Area, you hear about two drive-by shootings, one abandoned baby, and a shark attack before the first commercial break.
6. Sleeping in a loft. One of life's simple pleasures is being able to hand Roo a pair of socks downstairs by just tossing them over the rail.
7. Everyone here likes dogs as much as I do. At the Mill Valley "Cutest Dog Competition" a 7-year-old looked at Lando and predicted that he was definitely a strong competitor to take the title. (We didn't enter our dogs in the contest, we just went to watch, but we did win a $50 raffle prize!)
8. The ocean. It always feels like I'm seeing it for the first time:
9. Living next door to an American Icon:
10. The way the fog looks like it is flooding the hills:
I have no doubt that once I am sitting back in an office in the desert, I will have a hard time not wishing I was relaxing on the balcony, watching the boats on the bay. I feel grateful to have been surrounded by such beauty and culture for the summer.
4 comments:
Are you the American icon or were you referring to that red bridge behind you? What a fun summer. Wish I could have made it up there to see you.
We will miss you, wait we're jerks and never came to visit, but we'll see you in a few weeks for the concert! Hope all is well, sorry we never made it, cause I sure wanted to!
There's much to be said for the awesomeness of hermitage, especially when it's in a classy, classy city like San Fran.
And I love getting the mail!
Glad to hear that you've enjoyed your summer.
Love your photos, good job on the picture taking. And gotta say not too sad you guys are leaving- we will finally get our game playing friends back! but does sound like quite the time!
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