...And that toooootally reminds me of this:
So now that that Barenaked Ladies are part of the party, here's what I've been up to for the past week:
1. My aunt lives in Reno but has a boat in Sausalito and invited me to go sailing with her last Saturday. So I did! It was great- beautiful weather, fun companions, snacks...loved it. This was like a 60something foot, 2-masted sailboat made for cruising so it was a really smooth ride. There was a crew working so the only thing I had to do was tighten the jib once, which is my kind of sailing. I just want to be on the water but not doing any of the work.
We sailed out towards the Golden Gate Bridge at first and I got some great views of it (note the cloudless sky!) and then we headed over towards Alcatraz, hung out around there for a bit, and headed back. The whole time I could see lots of the San Francisco skyline and learned a lot from the other people onboard. Did you know that Koit Tower is supposed to look like a fireman's hose (no, not that kind of hose, sicko)? It's a monument to the firefighters that died fighting the fire in 1906. Or 1916. Or something. Betcha didn't know!
2. I joined the Jane Austen Book Club of San Francisco and went to my first meeting! I'm a very, very big Jane Austen fan and this first meeting was everything I wanted it to be. The book was Northanger Abbey, which I read sometime in the last 6 months so I got a Wikipedia refresher before I went. Catherine Moreland, Henry Tilney, John Thorpe...got it. It's all coming back to me. Basically the story is a playful mockery of a Gothic novel, which was a really popular style when Jane Austen was writing. Think Wuthering Heights. The main character, Catherine, is preoccupied with Gothic novels so much that she tries to make her life into one and hilarity insues. Anyway, me and about 10 other women (and one late arriving man in a beret) discussed the book AND they all made allusions to and comparisons with other Jane Austen books!
For example: "I mean, what if Isabella Thorpe had met Mr. Elton?! Now there's a couple who deserve each other." Hahaha sooooo true, Alex. So true
An Austen nerd's dream! I was so happy. I just went to the library and got a copy of Sense and Sensibility, our next book. So excited. Oh, and there were homemade scones. Yes please!
3. I started working and discovered that we have a Nintendo64 in the basement/hang out area. So far it's been pretty lame games like Perfect Dark (a ripoff of 007) and Madden (eew) but people keep saying they're going to bring 007 from home. I'm hoping for MarioKart.
Everything is so exciting and new! Every time I go somewhere it's an adventure! I'm happy and energized but really freaking exhausted at the same time. All the newness is wearing me out and I'm ready for bed by about 9 every night. But I think that just comes with the territory. New city, new life, new bedtime...for a while. Anyway I'm loving this city and so far it's loving me back!
