I'm going to admit it now. When I first moved to New England, I totally thought I'd have the whole winter thing dialed in. Like, I wouldn't fall prey to cabin fever because in my mind, I'd have so many friends from grad school that we'd be too busy visiting and having dinner parties all the time.
So, yeah, I got that one wrong.
I spent close to a month in San Francisco though. I'm originally from there, so it's "home" in the proper sense I suppose. Oh that and the fact that I spent 12 years living on Russian Hill before uprooting myself to attend U. Mass.
Anyway, classes start on Monday and I'm relieved. The last two weeks since I've returned have been full of snowstorms, subzero temps, empty bank accounts and an ongoing search for a new roommate in the new apt I took on two months ago.
So far I've had a few "new agey" guys in their early fifties apply, one dyke in her forties (with no sense of humor unfortunately, otherwise I could give a shit) and one 19 yr old kid wanting to move out of her parent's house.
So yeah, nothing so far. I need someone who gets my cynical wit, isn't afraid of drink and meat and who doesn't take offense to my hatred of crystal gazing. A tall order for the Pioneer Valley.
In other news, I'm working on a new contract with Big Media for this summer. Weirdly, they really like me. And have even gone as far as to suggest a nice, high -paying job awaits me when I graduate next spring. That would be nice. So I hope I can swing a contract with them for the summer. God, I just want to go back to New York for a bit. this whole small town country living thing has me ready to jump off the Calvin Coolidge Bridge!
In the meantime, I'm stuck in the Village.
Anyway, I do have a pet now. A Betta Siamese Fighting Fish. I've named him Fish-Fish. And when I get lonely, I talk to him at night. Then I do my reading and writing and bury myself in Scotch ad cable TV much later, when trying to sleep.
So yes. It's been awhile since I've updated. How many times in previous posts have I said that? Oh well. Fuck it.
I'm posting now. Getting ready for spring semester. And am thinking I'm ready to blog again!
Yay.
The one and only time I visited upstate NY in Jan or Feb was enough to make me swear off returning at that time of the year. I imagine that it's a bit like where you are. Enjoying the liquid sunshine now in sunny CA but we did have a taste of spring last week.
Had a fine time in SF last month at the Seal Beach Inn, Legion of Honor, Benihana's, and the SF Symphony. Not much for big cities but as big cities go SF is pretty nice...unless you get eaten by a tiger.
Posted by: David Nishikawa | February 21, 2008 at 03:36 PM
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Posted by: Dave | March 10, 2008 at 11:55 PM
Hi Dave,
I'm back now! Guess I disappeared from the blogosphere for a while, huh? Sorry 'bout that!
Posted by: Oedipa | July 07, 2009 at 02:12 PM
Welcome back though I have been keeping up your much more interesting than mine life on facebook. Been a while since I fired up Safari on my mac (usually doing final cut pro on it and not web browsing) and saw the "notes on a quest" tab. What made you come back? (or will I find out when i read further?) tc
Posted by: Dave | November 11, 2009 at 09:34 PM