Been a blur...

Yes, so it has been a while...no excuses, no reasons (not to mention here anyway!)...

Already 2009. I have a new roommate, Tracey. She moved in the beginning of February when Jene, my former roommate, moved to NYC. The whole business of finding a roommate can be quite exhausting, and it was not, to be honest, something I wanted to put any energy toward! Jene and I got a long really well and I genuinely liked her, but now I have someone to visit when I go to NYC! In SF, and I am sure, many other cities in the US, the only way to find housing / roommates is on craigslist! It is quite a strange concept--posting your apartment or room and then picking the best "fit" from a sea of strangers. Actually, there were phone and in-person "interviews" inbetween. I once went to a apartment open-house where I had to fill out a questionnaire. I did not think it was strange at the time...but now I kind of do...

Anyway, Tracey works as a general manager at Baby Gap. She makes me laugh and likes to drink wine... I try to help her figure out the bus schedule, but she sometimes has to take a cab to work... and she says I can have red wiggly worm compost in the kitchen! I totally scored on this one! :)

Work has been crazy busy. I drove to Seattle with a coworker last week. Yeah, it was a long way, but very beautiful! We drove through the State of Jeffereson...did you know we almost had a 51st state? Yes, it's true. And the folks who live there still believe they will become it! Apparently (by the power of google / iPhones while driving!), the State of Jefferson was going to become a state back when CA and OR were becoming states, but was somehow overlooked in the shuffle of presidents and wars. And, put this in your back pocket for bar trivia, the State of Jefferson was the only part of the mainland US to be bombed by the Japanese during WWII. Yup! The capitol is Yreka--which is a city in northern California.

The sunshine was great today.