slice of life: Saturday, May 17, 2008

J called to let me know he'd be coming over to hang out with me today since we'd missed our appointment to hang out from April (!!!)

...ehehe -___-;;;

Spent about 10 minutes on the phone trying to figure out what to do; he wanted someplace with air conditioning; threw around ideas, but nothing quite sounded good considering it might turn out to be a blisteringly hot day; decided we'd figure it out when he got here, hung up.

Some ideas: mall, library (hahaha, because goodness, as if though I haven't spent enough time there over the past week studying for finals), the beach, campus (shot down for fear of it being too hot), movies (except we didn't know any that were out, haha).

While waiting for J to arrive, decided on SF museums; trying to decide between SF MOMA, the newly re-opened de Young, or the Legion of Honor. However, summer hours haven't begun yet, so they would only be open until about 5p. By the time he arrived, was already 1:30-2-ish.

Drove down Shattuck, decided to get lunch, suggested Cheeseboard, parked at Safeway. Ended up crossing the street to the Gourmet Ghetto, ate Mexican at Picoso (they sold out of ceviche, TT___TT, so had to get tortas instead. Not bad.) Finished around 2:45-3p.

Started driving over to freeway, but as we crossed the overpass, noticed the heavy traffic going into the City. Split second judgment call that we wouldn't be able to make it to the museum in time for any significant viewing time with all that traffic, so J continued straight and we ended up going to the B Marina, to which, in all my four years here, I have actually never been. (oh shame...haha)

Walked up and down the windy pier, a blustery day blowing fog in from the City, passing clusters and clusters of families and friends fishing. Returned to car around 3:40p.

Decided to go to Elephant Pharmacy to rent a movie, but couldn't find one of interest. Headed down Shattuck again to see if there were any good movies showing at any one of the three theatres. Didn't seem like it. Called B and figured out how to get to the B Rose Garden. Sat for a good couple hours soaking in the gorgeous weather and brilliant sunshine and the explosion of rose blooms. Intended originally to stay for sunset, but there was a good two or three hours till the sun would set due to Daylight Savings and didn't really want to wait that long, so headed back down.

Parked near apartment and caught a movie. Prince Caspian. Quite good.

Came out around 8-ish. Had dinner at the boatnoodlehouse (something like that? forget what it's called), Thai food. Place was completely empty when we entered, but the interior decorating was cute. Ordered a spicy noodle dish, quite good, although J didn't like his order that much.

Walked back to the apartment. End of day.