come down to me

deery-lou.
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churches, murals, & burritos—it was a tour of the mission like no other. on friday, i once again had the privilege of taking the students out for their activity. this week's planned event was a walking tour of the mission. i had worked in the mission district for 5 years and am ashamed to say that this was my first journey to balmy alley to look at the murals. what i saw was quite impressive. if you're in sf and haven't been to check them out you need to go. it's great to know that we have places like this in the city. along balmy alley i stumbled upon poloppo inc. they created a line of children's wear based on artwork from children around the world. all of the children receive royalties on products sold with their artwork. check it out poloppo.com.



from balmy alley we made our way back to valencia and walked towards 18th street. i pointed out a few artsy-fartsy stores along the way. i was going to stop in a few of them but with such a large group i didn't think that would be wise. two of the girl were extremely interested in every dog they passed. it was a total photo op for them. i kept have to tell them to move along. before heading to dolores park we stopped at the women's building. i took them of them to a nearby taqueria which proved quite interesting. when they were asked what kind of beans they wanted they just stared off into space. i had to decide for them. from the park we ventured to the dolores mission church. by this time most of them were tired and didn't want to go inside. i walked them to the bart and we said our goodbyes. i was exhausted.

saturday i spent in my hood. grabbed some dinner with a friend at china first. we had an order of salt and peppered pork chops, so freakin good, and a few other dishes that were all right. the rest of the evening was spent planted in front of the tv. i ran some errands on sunday. later that evening misty and i met up with john and derek at martuni's to catch some drag queens singing piano bar songs. it was definitely entertaining. had myself a couple of martinis: blueberry lemon drop & a watermelon one. i so wanted the watermelon to taste like a jolly rancher but it didn't. oh well...

stay gold & be well…

swelters

deery-lou.
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sweets, seeds, & sunnyd—the three s's from hell. it's official. i am addicted to sunnyd. why is it so damn delicious. it reminds me of tang. another fake flavored orange drink high in sugar. i loved tang as a child. we only got it as a special treat. there is something so wrong about sunnyd yet i can't stop drinking it. i finished a 2qt container in less than a day. is that bad? will sunnyd make me fat? if i mix it with cereal is that a fortified breakfast? so many questions unanswered.

sweets. i crave sweet things. it comes in waves. the waves seem to be more frequent lately. perhaps that's why i downed so much sunnyd in such a short amount of time. i try not to keep too many sweets in my apartment. mostly out of fear that i will eat them all in one sitting. the other day i was looking for something sweet. i realized that i had a bag of candies from twain courtesy of misty. not knowing what any of them are i grabbed the one with the picture of green fruit on the front. there's many possibilities for the fruit: green apples, plums, asian pears, etc. who knows really. the candy itself was hard, smooth, and brown. on top was a lightish brown color. perhaps the fruit filling i thought. without thinking twice i popped the asian treasure in my mouth. there was a flavor explosion. the most prominent was that of honey. the other [the fruit filling] tastes like nothing i've experienced before. it wasn't bad, just different. kind of sweet-spicy if you will. anyway...i'm sucking along and it finally reaches the point where i can bite down on it. so i do. the fruit filling is soft and chewy. as i'm chewing i strike something hard. i spit the hard substance out onto my hand to notice that its a seed. you puts a freakin seed in candy. come on! now the questions remains: do i plant the seed or not!

stay gold & be well…