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another week has flown by, this weekend at least i finally felt like i could breathe. i just moved into a sublet and it was definitely my worst move ever. i don't have tons of stuff, but a fair amount... and it was all piled up in my little room. this made it really, really difficult to organize stuff, and i needed to be really organized because half of this shit was going in storage and the rest with me to my sublet and then miami. so these storage and movie people really pissed me off.

i don't have a problem with people who aren't too bright. i mean intelligence is a quality respect in people but it is far from most important (thoughtfulness, good intensions, having your heart in the right place, these things are most important. tits and ass is up there too i have to admit). but i am getting away from the point here. i just cannot believe how stupid and utterly incompetent these moving people were. i was getting this service where they come to your place with a portable storage container on their truck... they load it up and then take to this warehouse where it is stored. this may not be totally clear, but what happened is they loaded their storage unit the wrong direction on the truck because I lived on the left side of a 3 lane one way street. so usually the containers always face the other way. so they call me up at the end of the 5 hour freaking window to tell me that they have to cancel because the container was loaded the wrong way. understandable mistake. then 3 days later they come back and they do the same exact fucking thing. so here i am with a ton of shit i can't possibly move myself (i'm having knee surgery in 3 weeks) and then my roomate (and former owner of the house we were living in) tells me my stuff has to be out the next day because he'll be blocking the driveway with his giant mexico bound moving truck for the rest of the week. by some miracle someone with a pickup the next day is able to move my stuff into another storage unit, but i seriously want to sue the hell out these people. there was like no customer service either. nada. it was just, well we could come in a couple days. not even an apology for completely fucking up my plans. alright, i'm done my rant. will let you know how the lawsuit goes.

so now i am in this sublet for a month in north beach. it is pretty cool. this wa my first neighborhood in sf. i lived in the golden eagle hotel next to all the strip joints. that's how the addiction began... haha. i'm really surprised i discovered a cool bar and music venue here that i never even noticed before. it's so funny how i'm a photographer and i'll spend so much time walking around someplace and not notice the most salient things. anyway, i met this cute girl last week who was telling me she sings in a band at this place so that's how i ended up checking it out. then it turned out to be the wrong nite, so i'll go back wednesday. when i walked by there on saturday, i saw this girl i have a crush on who's new in town and she was working the door. i didn't stop and talk to her, but i talked to her tonight at the other place where she works all the way across town where she lives. so she said we should get a drink when she gets off wednesday. so that sounds promising. she is from toronto and not really digging sf. i told her i haven't been too into it lately eighther. i do see potential though, and i kinda feel that i need to come back here for my work. for 5 months though i'm going to enjoy the winter in miami and veg on the beach.