recently i have been having more frequent "exclamation point" days, defined as those days which are so great that they need to be described with excessive use of exclamation points. yesterday was one of those days. i picked up my friend mark from the train station and we went straight to mt. diablo and started hiking. afterwards, we headed to berkeley for lunch at one of my favorite restaurants before getting back onto the train and heading into san francisco. we wandered around on a self-made scavenger hunt (the fao schwartz branch in the macy's in union square does not have one of the keyboards you can dance on!) and then watched the union square tree lighting ceremony. in the background, the windows of the macy's were lit up and from our perspective you couldn't tell how they lights were done, so we wandered into the store for closer examination (leds and a white screen...and lest i be accused of dragging someone along in such a nerdy endeavor, mark is a friend from college so we're on the same page as far as curiosity about things like that). then we headed to north beach for italian. the place we were going to go to was closed, so instead we went to an irish pub that specializes in indian food. odd, yes, but the food was delicious (ironically some other friends and i had wandered into the same pub a couple years ago but i hadn't noticed the restaurant part of it at the time). after dinner we continued walking around and stumbled upon city lights, a famous san francisco bookstore. inside we read poetry books, and i discovered that modern poetry is a lot more accessible (to me at least) than the poetry we were forced to read in high school (which had turned me off of poetry entirely). i made it back to my parents house sometime before midnight happily exhausted. i think we're going to ride out to mt. tam in a couple weeks when i'm back in sf and hike it.
in running news, check out this video from brooks. i've been wearing their running shoes since college, if not before. the company just seems to get it.
the weather here (sf) is gorgeous right now. i'm sitting outside on the deck at my parents house working on my term projects. part of me should probably be stressing about getting everything done, but somewhere in the back of my head i know that it will all get done, so i might as well enjoy the weather while my code is compiling!
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