Saturday, October 18, 2003
Breakfast at home with Patrick: Eggo waffles. Patrick went to Jumpin Java to write and to meet Aaron. I napped, ironed, mended clothes, cleaned the kitchen. Lunch at home by myself: leftover pizza from Chow, leftover ginger and scallion noodles, leftover lemon poppyseed muffin. Patrick and I met at Tully's on Castro to go to a reading: Rik Isensee at Magnet. Magnet ( magnetsf.org ) is a health services office in the heart of the Castro, just half a block off 18th and Castro. I really like the lights inside—they're fluorescent, but they're diffused by a wavy framework of plastic panels suspended from the ceiling. They're very hard to describe. The reading was very much not to our liking so we left at the earliest polite opportunity and went to Brian, Kelly, and Jesse's place. (Kelly said, "We're being geeky.") Jesse 'n' James were playing chess, and I think Brian was unsuccessfully trying to load a Powerpuff Girls theme onto his cellphone. Although James played well, Jesse won the chess game. Why does Jesse win all the games? Dinner at Sparky's with Patrick: grilled chicken salad with sesame vinaigrette for me, chicken burger with fries for Patrick, 2 iced teas: $18.45 before a $3.00 tip.