Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Breakfast at home with Patrick: English muffin, banana, blueberry bran muffin. Quick-watched and trashed a lot of TV I had taped. Lunch at home with Patrick: lemon-thyme chicken sandwich on ciabatta, leftover beets, tamari chips. Patrick and I went to Stern Grove. He sat in the shade reading from Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie while I laid out in the sun napping. We took a few photographs. Dinner at King of Thai Noodle with Patrick: chicken soup for me, number 17 for Patrick. Errands: Walgreens, Safeway. Home. Patrick made a tomato pasta sauce with some tomatoes we had. Shopping online. I laughed today when I read a Wells Fargo postcard that we received in the mail. It seems the University of California gave Wells Fargo my contact information (but I don't remember consenting to it). The postcard is promoting a special mortgage program for UC employees and claims, "Your employer knows how important a comfortable today and a secure tomorrow is to you." I could only laugh, thinking, "Well, if that were true, why can I still not afford to buy a decent house in San Francisco?" Today Patrick and I walked passed a house in our neighborhood near Taraval and 22nd selling for $850,000, and I'll tell you it is definitely not a mansion. Patrick and I make the 14th issue of Lodestar Quarterly live. My favorite piece this issue is Lauren Sanders's "Shopping" because it has so many layers to it.