It wasn't on purpose that I looked extra butch today when I visited Rook at work and met his boss and all his co-workers. It just so happened that I had freshly shaved my head and gelled back the top part of my fauxhawk, because I'm growing out the back and it sticks up funny... so it either needs to be spiked up or slicked down. Nevermind that i looked extra dorky with my pants falling off me and headphone wires tangled up with my wallet chain. The boss of Rook gave me an extra special weird smile like "This explains a lot..." but I could not tell what conclusion he was drawing or what suspicion was confirmed.
Moomin requested some exciting fun, so rather than bring him home to the same old playground I tried the downtown xmas tree festival thing. It was not really exciting fun- just some dumb trees and animatronic crapola... the best part of it was the quetzalcoatl statue. Moomin is a genius art critic as he took one look at it and started laughing hysterically so hard he was falling down, hanging precariously by my hand and sort of twirling in that annoying little-kid-helpless-hangy-way. "San José is silly. They have a statue that looks like a giant pile of poop!" I didn't even have to prompt him. As we got closer he then said, "It is a very silly statue of a dragon coild up that looks like a pile of poop!" He's so right!
Also, I didn't have a jacket for him so he got to wear my jacket and I froze. So we spent 16 bucks to go to the tech museum, which was suckily crowded. Full of total fuckwad adults who shove past small children in their eagerness to put their face on the bug puppet or make a shadow picture with the butterfly screen... god! nassssty. also after me and moomin waited in line for a million years to spell his name with the robot arm and the blocks, some asshole teenagers shoved in and I had to tell them off. We spent a lot of time at the tinkertoy build a machine sensor feed-the-fish thing.
other than that... my day... some spanish-workbooking... I got my teeth cleaned and my glasses fixed...
I ate lunch at an awesome korean place called "Totoro" in downtown Mountainview - I highly recommend it. For $8.95 I got a giant clay pot of perfect tofu-mushroom soup with fancy mushrooms, a raw egg to crack into the clay pot (which was still boiling several minutes after it came to the table) a hefty amount of kimchi, garlic sprouts, and vinegary cucumbers. YUM. When the waitress whipped out the little dish with the raw egg I started grinning madly as that seemed like a good sign for authenticity and weirdness instead of the grody fake korean food you get sometimes as fast food... and YES. it was totally delicious... Tantalizingly, there was almost wireless, but not quite. If I had a usb antenna extendy-thingie...
Basically i had like 1 hour to myself in the morning between 10 and 11 and then had to do dishes, laundry, shower, and go to the dentist. It was not quite my dream of working hard for hours and hours but actually will tide me over nicely... If I send out poetry submissions tomorrow I will be doing okay.
THe usb thingie doesn't really help much. It's so frustrating to see a perfectly good connection out there just waiting to be used, and it's not strong enough. I see a world where everyone has free wireless! I am visionary!
Posted by: Jo | December 30, 2004 at 06:33 AM
I left out the part where I fed your cats, Jo, but be assured it was there.
As the days go by they get friendlier and friendlier!
Posted by: badgerbag | December 30, 2004 at 09:25 AM
I can't wait to see them tomorrow. I miss them. I keep thinking they are on my feet while I'm sleeping, but alas! I'm only kicking Manny!
Posted by: Jo | December 30, 2004 at 06:08 PM
I was laughing at Moomin's comment and read it aloud to D, who - being from San Jose - knew before I got to the name of the city exactly what statue was being discussed. He concurrs wholeheartedly with Moomin and has yet to stop laughing. Happy New Year, Badger-Rook-and-Moomin!
Posted by: justkristin | January 01, 2005 at 11:46 AM