Well, I'm just catching up, dear livejournal. So let me tell you that I made the right decision changing jobs at the last minute. I love my job. Amidst the chaos of construction, budget problems, poverty, language barriers, and just general middle school madness, I fit right in. I love my students--they are so interesting and funny. I love ( Read more... )

Warm October night + Halloween = FUN! I finally got to wear my leopard print platforms with fishnets to traipse around town clown-face style. My partners in crime? A Jackie-O stylin' divorcee' and a pink bouffant-wigged lush lady in a black negligee. We drank lots of white wine and took lots of silly pictures. Thank goodness we found the ( Read more... )

So I sold my scooter today. The Big Red Hot Mama Honda Elite 125. Catrina was with me when I bought that scooter. We rode all around town, wind in our faces, her arms wrapped tightly around me. Rode out to Tire Beach for political theatre. Rode to the Castro to watch gay movies. Rode to adventures and friends and the future. I loved that ( Read more... )

So I am going to Spain! Bought the tickets, happy birthday to me, I will finally FINALLY be going to Europe for the first time EVER. I talked to my Bosnian step-sister the other day and she said we should go to Berlin, too, and her roommates will show us around, like it's no big deal to just fly over to Berlin for the weekend, since we'll be so ( Read more... )

So I keep going back and forth about buying tickets to go to Spain over Spring Break. The tickets are going to cost $600. The trip will cost...lots of money. But I really want to go. Or I thought I did until I started having this hesitation about buying the darn tickets. It seems like so much to spend, but on the flip side, it seems so worth ( Read more... )

I can finally snowboard! For real, I did not fall once last weekend--just plopped myself down when I needed a rest or wanted to wait for my buddy. It was an amazing, beautiful sunshiney snowy weekend, and we even got to chill in a cute little cabin with a hot tub and cable and the Olympics (figure skating, what could be better) and cool people. ( Read more... )

Riding my bike through the Panhandle on a warm San Francisco evening...bike path guiding my way...ringing my little bell to let the joggers and homeless people know I'm coming through...I still have a front basket on my bike and I love it. I love bike lanes and I love GG Park and I love bicycle bells. I love smiling at the bikers going the other ( Read more... )

I had a total Crash moment just now. You know the movie Crash? That movie really hit a nerve. So today I'm driving home in my cheap-ass Toyota Tercel, trying to make it up this hill in a line of traffic with my stick shift, when this other hecka beat up car guns its engine, drives up next to me, and then almost pulls in front of me into this ( Read more... )

Sometimes when I close my eyes on the back of my baby's motorcycle, it feels like flying... like speeding through water on a super-fast boat, riding high in the front with the air in your face. When she first got her motey, I believe my exact words were, "That bike is H-O-T-T, but don't expect me to ride bitch." Well, I guess I've learned a thing ( Read more... )

It's been such a wonderful lazy winter break. The rain has kept me inside with my girl, watching too many videos and catching up with the rest of the queer world on the L Word! Ok, I was skeptical, but I love the stupid show. I'm hooked. I don't care if it's set in L.A. and everyone is so shiny and skinny and buffed and successful. It's ( Read more... )