I'm still here, and I think I get to leave tonight. It's going to be a while before I can start posting photos, and I only have about three thousand to put online, so this trip should be properly summed up by May, but I can't help but want to get started on my review of this trip that hasn't even ended. Let's look at the statistics:
Number of Minutes Spent Waiting for A Train to JFK: At least 25
Number of People Who Got On My Flight to Oakland After Me: Two.
Number of Minutes it Took to get from Oakland Airport to Concord BART Station: Close to 100, I think.
Number of Nights Spent in Nephew's Bed: 3
Number of Nights Spent on V-Shaped Couch: 1
Number of Nights Spent Sleeping Beneath chandeliers: 1
Number of Times I Had to Bathe w/o Washcloth:3
Number of Video Installations at the SF MoMA that Made Me Lose My Mind and Never Want to Leave: 1
Number of People at the Metreon Besides Me on Thursday Afternoon: About 5
Number of Those People Who Were at the Metreon Besides me that Weren't Playing Dance Dance Revolution:3
Number of Absolutely Horrible Tacos Partially-consumed Before Deciding I Would Be Better to Having Nothing to Do With Them: 1
Number of Used Books That I Had to Buy in Berkeley Just Because Their Covers Were That Great: 5
Number of CDs that I Had to Buy at Amoeba: 0. 0? What's that all about?
Number of Rolls of Sushi Consumed By Myself and Family Members: I completely lost count.
Number of Times I Ordered Something Involving Cooked Salmon at a Restaurant Out Here: 2.
Number of Times I Usually Order Things Involving Cooked Salmon: I'm not sure of the proper numeric representation of "pretty much never."
Number of Chinese New Years Parades I Rode In: 1
Number of the Awesomeness of Riding in the Bartmobile in the Chinese New Years Parade: Infinite.
Number of Times I Will Return to San Francisco to Ride in the Chinese New Years Parade: ALWAYS. (I accidentally hit capslock there, but it seemed really appropriate to leave it that way.
Number of People I Had Never Met Before that Confessed to Being Serious Steady Mobbin' Fans and Already Knew So Much About Me I Barely Knew What to Say to Them: 3
Number of Above Mentioned Steady Mobbin' Readers Who Were Attractive Females:2
Number of Above Mentioned Steady Mobbin' Readers Who Were Good Dudes, But Said I Seemed Shorter on the Internet: 1
Number of Magnificent Hamburgers I Ate on this Trip: At Least 3. The hamburger is totally coming back in style.
Number of Well-Behaved Babies I Met: 1
Number of Nights It Took Me to Watch Fletch for the First Time: 2
Number of Arrested Development Cast Members I May Have Met Had I Not Gone to the Crush Party: 1
Number of Grape Crushes Drunk (by Me) at Crush Party: 2
Number of Strawberry Crushes Drunk (by Me) at Crush Party: 1
Number of JetBlue Flight to NY Cancelled on Sunday Afternoon: 90
Number of JetBlue Flight to NY that I'm Supposed to Be On Tonight: I wish they'd tell me.
Number of Hugs Received, by Me, from Grant: 2.
Number of Knee Rubs Received, by Me, from Jared: 2.
Number of Showers I Had to Take Without a Washcloth, as if I Were Some Kind of Animal: 2.
Number of 1GB SD Cards Filled with Pictures on This Trip: 1 and 1/2
Number of Job Interviews that Didn't Come Together, Thereby Destroying Whatever Chance I Had of Making This Trip Look Anything But Indulgent: 1
I'm realizing this list could go on forever, so I'm knocking it off.
that's some list..woah doggies, that's some list...i hope you get home ok and when you do, and after you've taken a shower with a washcloth, you've been tagged by kirk, by marsha who tagged me so you're it and you have to tell 5 weird things about yourself and then tag someone else (I can't figure it out but it's all you)..happy valentine's day..hug, hug, jiggle, hug :)
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ReplyDeleteI am that dude. I didn't quit at "short," either.
Anything else you did that week that made you feel like an animal?
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