Kokochi

doodling

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Someone dosed my donut!

doughnut birthday cake

It's Ezra's (one of the engineers here) birthday. Mena brought in Krispie Kream doughnuts for the occasion. We had one candle to proudly set on Ezra's doughnut, but no one smokes here and we don't have any lighters. So we glued on a yellow paper cut to look like a flame. Now we have sugar highs...

modern community

As you know, I met a cool group of friends through Burning Man. We live together at Burning Man, call ourselves Campalicious, and hang out throughout the year. It's not just our house here in Potrero Hill, but in the neighborhood are several other campalicious members living too. Our group is close to what folks have coined modern day "tribes" where we support each other, have fun together, and actively create community. I feel particularly lucky to know these people because of the age we are in. We're not just a bunch of youngsters out to party. I mean, we do love having fun together, but as we grow older, we're also sharing relationships, marriages, and now, the birth of children. I think we're all slowly transitioning, and we're doing it together.

Karina just had a beautiful baby girl, Jet. She currently lives in NY, but was here visiting and a bunch of campalicious folk gathered at this Potrero house to say hi and see the new bundle of joy. The pics of her and Jet are quite dark, but it makes for a more intimate setting, no?

Then what was kinda cool (for Dav and I at least...it must have just seemed geeky for others) was that my parents hooked up on the ISight when everyone was there. So we brought the laptop around, turned the lights on and introduced my parents to everyone. It was rather funny to see Dav holding the laptop facing everyone while my parents peeked out from the screen saying, "hi...oooo, is that the baby? how cute!"

lots to learn

For a few days earlier this week, my Nokia phone all of a sudden stopped sending emails. So I couldn't upload to Kokochi. It turns out that T-Mobile decided to no longer support the Nokia mailbox that I was using. I don't know why they suddenly changed, but I sure was confused by all the inconvenience. So over dinner, I had Dav explain email systems to me. POP and SMTP, that sorta stuff.

at Van Kleef in Oakland

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house dinner

There are 5 of us living together. And 2 cats. It works well since there are 5 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, 2 kitchens and great views. We're all busy but got together to have dinner at home. And the guys cooked! It was awesome. Dav made yummy okonomiyaki and I made a pear tart.

at Baobob

In the Mission...Reggae tonight...my fav.

This makes sense

Another experience where technology blows my mind, rearranges the way I see this world, and makes a whole lot of sense. Yes, technology can be strange, scary and worrisome. It has powerful potential and who knows where it may lead us. It certainly intimidated me, and the more I felt I didn't know, the more I felt left behind and on the outside of some special cirlce. Yet lately, meaning these past 2 years or so, the internet has meant a lot to me. Like heart-felt, "geez, this is important to my life," meaning.

And tonight, for the first time, my dad conacted Dav and I through our macs to use iSight.

I got to talk to him as if we were sitting across the table. No worries about the phone bill. In fact, twice he got up: once to answer the phone, once to answer the door. It was refreshing to have the luxury to discuss whatever came to our minds instead of focusing on the urgent issues at hand. My mom wasn't home so we're all gonna try and hook up tomorrow.

I don't feel so far away from my parents now.

thoughts to share

First thought:

I think I'm still adjusting to a work schedule. The weekend zoomed by; I felt like I barely had time to do laundry (which is an activity I actually like although I'm too embarrassed to call it a hobby). And tonight I'm pretty exhausted. Dav just left to see some music at Bruno's with friends. I didn't feel up to it and knew I'd be looking for a comfy booth to rest in rather than dance around. So I opted to stay home. And then I realized this may be one of the first times we aren't going out together because one of us decided to stay home. We're certainly not glued by the hip, but we like similar things and I like being together. When we had our long distance relationship, during our international visits to one another, I wouldn't let a fever or heavy jet-lag take even a minute of our time. But now we live together. And this moment, where I'm here at home and he's out and about, is natural. I sure look forward to him coming home though : )

Second thought:

Wakame (the female cat) is talking a lot more then she used to. And she's increasing her vocabulary or repertoire of songs. I can hear her meowing down the hallway as she makes her way from the living room to the bedroom

which takes quite some time since she walks soooooooo slowly, checking out every dust particle she finds (I swear, I think she hallucinates cuz she'll act as if she sees ghosts...even dust must dance around according to her). Some of her meows end like a question...which makes me automatically meow back at her. Some of her meows are like gentle howls and some are short meows that I translate as a 'yes.' Anyhow, I would like to record all of her quirky styles someday and load it for you to hear (and for me to have as a keepsake).

Third thought:

I haven't provided you the link I promised for that cool dorkbot event Dav and I went to during which I scribbled notes with my digital pen. Here is the link.

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/

Definitely check out Graffiti Archaeology, although all is pretty neat stuff!

after dinner

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Hanging out with the Six Apart group...After 11 hours of presentations and discussions. Time to hit the hay...