life goes on in SF-O

Gotten used to the crowded city streets in NYC, now I get bored running along the Embarcadero *yawn*. I barely see a soul for the 30 min run at lunch from the YMCA, past AT&T ballpark, then to 16th and 3rd st and back.

So today I ran down 3rd street toward Market, up Kearny towards Chinatown, along Columbus all the way to where Tower Records used to be, up Bay Street to Laguna, touched the Fort Mason monument sign, then (catch this catch this) all the way up to the top of Laguna, back down the hill towards J-Town, thru the projects and turned left on McAllister towards Market, along Market back to 4th St, and back to Stillman. 80 min total. Whoever can tell me how far that is gets a GOLD STAR =) hahahaha

Pix of the week taken by pervy boy Daniel. Taken at Sunset house outdoor party, McLauren Park, some of you have already seen the hunky drummer dude). After much effort, we still could not figure out what jeans he’s wearing. If you wanna try figuring it out, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtsao/ There are a number of close up "back pocket" pix.

Been back for more than a week. I guess I got into the nasty habit of keeping a blog. Last night I was super antsy. Contemplated going to have happy hour with
Norm/Lucia/Rowena/Crouton/Karoleen and hitting the gym before then (all
because Kristien stood me up, were supposed to start swimming again
every Friday YO!). But none of those happened. Went home sulking and
went for a run, a game was on at AT&T Park. Still not knowing what I was really craving I let my mind wander . . . Ryoko . . . Foreign Cinema . . . Slanted Door . . . Beard Papa . . . R&G Lounge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike was a little sulky too when I came home from the run (139 Stillman to 20th and 3rd st and back thru th UCSF Mission Bay campus). So we decided to go eat steamed dungeonus crab at R&G Lounge. South Sea Seafood Village in the sunset is my fav but it’s a bit far when I need to feed soon.

We ordered the steamed crab with egg white and shaoxing cooking wine, eggrolls with salmon and avocado, R&G beef, and the XO sauce stir-fry chicken cubes. R&G beef was fine but probably not worth mentioning. I always order the XO chicken. THE dungeness crab tho put me right in perspective after my 2.5 month long trip to NYC. It pulled my soul that has been lingering in East Village right outside of Oh! Taisho 3000 miles West and dumped me right back here in San Francisco. Not a millimeter of the crab meat was stuck on the shell. It was perfectly cooked and flavored. Crab juice was absorbed by the bed of egg white at the bottom of the deep dish. Mike and I sucked on the egg white off the shell like it’s crab meat spilling outta the shell. Don’t mean to be blasphemous but it reminded me of what one of my pastor said in a sermon, "The church has no boundary, these walls do not define the church. We have to carry out God’s words even outside of these walls." The egg white did just that . . . blending the inside and the outside of the shell . . . is this analogy offensive?