Things happening in June & July:
• Graduation
• My father and step-mother visit Seattle
• Summiting Mount Rainier with Jeff & Andy (Without Andy, we are lost.)
• Birthday
• San Juan Marathon with Jay & Heather
• WORLD CUP
It will be a good two months.
View from Joshua Heineman’s roof, whom I regrettably did not photograph. He is such a good man. We shared a cup of coffee in the early hours of the morning and discussed San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Matea, fire escapes, road trips because girls like road trips, and why Joshua & Matea should move to Seattle. Immediately. (Do you find yourself constantly trying to convince your friends to move to your city, but when they try to do the same thing to you you think Are you crazy? I’m not moving. Me too.)
Lawrence Weiner
Jewish Contemporary Museum
Jarrod & Taryn are the reasons that I went to San Francisco, and I love them.
“Taryn, I’ll do the dishes.”
“Really? Thanks! Just make sure you wash the backs of the dishes as well.”
“Wait, the front AND the back?”
Taryn has a lot of patience with me (especially when she comes back to the dishes the next day to find food on backs of the plates).
(Sorry, Taryn.)
Jarrod was taking me to the touristy places (I love touristy places) and we came across this team of people doing a “photo shoot” of a couple. They had 5 or 6 cameras with them, lighting rigs, reflectors, bags and bags of gear, and so on. It was ridiculous.
Me: I’m going to go take their picture too. Obviously they want their picture taken. Look at all of the people they’ve hired.
Jarrod: You’re not normal.
Me: They won’t even notice me among their legion of photographers. I’ll blend right in.
Jarrod: Blending in is what you do best, Beardy McBearderton.
That’ll be $20.
“Was it all worth it?” she asked him reluctantly.
“Yes, at least I think so. Sometimes I think so. It’s hard to tell,” he replied.
“What did you learn?”
Sigh.
“You don’t have to….”
“I know,” he said, looking away to his right. “I want to.”
“Ok.”
“Ok.”
“Ok.”
“Another day.”
“Ok.”
Me: I’m strongly considering buying a television.
Tom: Why?
Me: I want to watch the world cup but I don’t want to go to a pub for every game.
Tom: I have a projector that I’m not using. You could stream the games on your computer and watch them on your wall. Do you want to borrow it?
Me: Yes.
Tom Ryan: Professor & Friend
I will be opening up my house for as many games as possible, including those amazing games that start at 4am. Kaká will be our sunrise.
