Dumpsters
i am no longer a dumpster.
nope. nu-huh. i used to live in the dump, ergo i was a dumpster. now i do not. now i live with madhavi in a cute two bedroom in a part of town we just learned is called The Castro Alps.
hah! the castro alps! that's fooney! har-dee-har har har!! even better, i just discovered an absolutely perfect name for the neighborhood i used to live in, which wasn't quite mission dolores, wasn't quite the mission, or the castro, or duboce triangle, or mint hill, or middle market: nope. 15th and Church is best known as Doloresque.
where do lisa and kathrin live? Doloresque!
okay. so i'm a little punchy after packing up everyfing i own and stoofing it into boxes and moving it around and around and scrubbing the hell out of the bathroom and then watching (oh thank you miryana!) the nice movers drag it to our new flat up the wiggly stairs and then unpacking a ton of it and reassembling furniture and dismantling madhavi's loft and dragging it up four flights of stairs for some poor poor girl named kim.
kim. gosh. kim just moved here from sacto and she and a friend are sharing a one bedroom on Jones and Geary (gross gross gross block) where they will install and SHARE madhavi's loft. they are not a couple. just poor.
as i'm dismantling the loft and loading up madhavi's truck i say to kim, "moving to a new city is exciting, huh?"
she says, "yeah. i want to cry."
let us all pray that poor kim does not get eaten by the tenderloin. which, by the way, is now Little Saigon, not the Tenderloin.
so today i am tired. but our new place is coming together. i got the office set up yesterday and got dsl running and the phone all hooked up and madhavi unpacked the kitchen and the bedroom is a disaster. where the hell are we going to put all these shoes?
we also have no less than eight small tables between us. we have no kitchen chairs. we do have beer.
it's a start.
there's never a solution for all the shoes. hmc bought a specific shoe armoire for l.a. a shoe armoire!
alternatively, grow more feet.
Even I know 15th & Church is called upper Safeway.