Halloween at the Adelaide!

I had originally wanted to be a sexy gorilla, with a full on suit and a coconut bra. But that plan fell through due to lack of funding and/or motivation.

So I ended up as a deranged jester, which is what I am everyday already. Check out Anita's costume: a Twister board with dismembered limbs.

Decompression

We encountered a bear AND a snake at the Burning Man Decompression Party.
How auspicious!

Rainforest Cafe

My new friend Olivier and I drank pineapple juice and chamomile tea and drew the landscape at the Rainforest Cafe.

Bear!

Daily Life

Walking through the Tenderloin in pigtails, skirt, and cowboy boots today was a wild experience. One man said, "you look good like that," as if he had a prior reference. Another group competed in heckling... "Beautiful AND cute!" was boomed triumphantly over the rest of the voices, as if an age old paradox had been solved. But my favorite was on my way home, up the hill towards Geary: "Hey Snow-Bunny, nice cans!"

I've also gotten: "Girl, I would jump over two sisters to get to you!" which doesn't even make any sense. And yesterday when I tried to take the long way home to avoid the area completely, I still heard "I wanna touch the hips. Are they real? Are they real?" from a shady street-corner. My favorite ever interaction, though, was in Berkeley, when a man in an electric wheelchair piped up from behind me.

"Girl, you got great legs. I been admiring them for about two blocks," he said. "Are you a student?"
"Nope," I said, "looking for jobs."
"Well, I know what you do," he said. "You just go in there, turn around, and show 'em your legs."

Solstice!

Liz squared reunited for an autumnal solstice celebration, complete with feasting and witchery and butternut squash. We put our glasses on the altar for a clear vision of the present, past, and things to come.

Home, Sweet Home.

Sooner or later everything came together, and I was living here.