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The following online journal entries are from February 2000.

They are taken from email updates I sent to friends.

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Thursday. 11:49 AM. The following is an email update I sent to folks:

Greetings friends, kooky people, and random onlookers:

Happy Year of the Dragon to everyone! This new year is supposed to bring luck, passion, creativity, nobility, and great changes. Best wishes to you all!

San Francisco is still in the height of its "winter" and its been raining a lot; though I don't think it's been raining as much as we need. But, I'm very glad that the days are getting longer and that I wake up to see light in the morning instead of darkness. I hate being seasonally affected and I'm glad that spring is on its way.

Not much has been going on. Life has been reasonably decent ... still experiencing the same old problems but trying to get out and about.

I have been partying like a rock star every weekend. I've started chatting online again (at the infamous gay.com chatrooms for SF). I've met a bunch of fellows that have become pretty cool club friends. Every weekend, at least one night, I head up to the Castro to go to the Cafe (a no-cover dancey type bar that plays bad house music ... but I'm poor so I can't complain ... but I've started to get to know a bunch of the people that go there and work there including a few barbacks and bartenders). SF is truly a city of travelers. The last few weeks I've hung out with a group of students studying English language in the city. It totally makes it fun to go out and hang out with familiar faces.

I'm trying for quantity at the moment. Hoping that out of the dozens of people I run into, I'll make friends with some cool ones. We'll see if it works out.

For those of you UMCPers who know Carol Bushar, she and her friend Stacy Noelle visited for a few days (on their trek across country to Seattle). It was fun having house guests for a while and it was neat to see two people on a similar journey moving away from home to a completely new place, a completely new coast. I wish both of them luck...they are now settling into the rain of Seattle!

I have recently discovered the great pleasure of sushi! It's become one of my favorite foods and it is easy to find and relatively cheap out here in SF. There is a great little sushi restaurant right around the corner from my apartment called We Be Sushi. Yummy! I just love it. I think my favorites are sake nigiri, ika nigiri, avocado maki, and spinach maki. For those of you who like sushi and come visit me, we'll definitely eat it up.

I wish there was more to tell. Hmmm. I think our apartment is haunted. Fun, huh? Nothing psychotic (yet) and definitely not worthy of much paranormal exploration. But, there is definitely a presence that seems to linger around Sarah's room and the hallway near the kitchen and bathroom. Sarah's felt like there's been someone hanging around. When I'm in the kitchen I sometimes catch something out of the corner of my eye and look up to see if someone is standing int he doorway but there is no one there. And when Carol visited, she said while she was in the bathroom, she look in the mirror and thought she saw someone standing behind her in the hallway. Interesting, huh?

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I am pretty certain the presence is female. I even remarked to Sarah that I thought the presence was somehow associated with the color "green." Interestingly enough, I was fussing with a hook on Sarah's door and a bit of pain chipped off (we're talking layers and layers of white pain)...and guess what color was way underneath...a deep, forest green. Bizarre. Hehe.

Other than that... life is made up of the usual suspects...

My downstairs neighbors have been relatively considerate (knock on wood). But I'm not afraid to jump up and down on the floor if they get out of hand.

My cat, Mojo, is feeling much better now that he doesn't have worms; he's even gained a little weight but remains skinny as ever and his breath is still deadly (and he won't let me near him with a kitty toothbrush).

Work is work. It's alright. I really like the workplace. The job is a bit frustrating though. I think my idealist side is raging out of control. I keep expecting people to be smart and knowledgeable and understanding. But, all I get are calls from people who have no idea what they want, who they want, or even the questions to ask. But, that's what it's like to be on the front lines with the public. Other than that, work is fine. I got a 4.8% pay raise for this year ... out of a maximum of 5%. So, that's good.

I just applied for a tenure-track/long-term substitute English instructor position at City College of San Francisco. It was harrowing. I felt like I was applying to university again. Pages and pages of forms and texts and recommendation letters and whatnot. I had to go through a huge rigamaroll to establish equivalency for a Masters since I did not earn my MA. Well, I don't know when I'll find out anything about the application. But, cross your fingers. I definitely want to get back to teaching. Yes, yes, yes.

Gaming is dead. (A resuscitation is hopefully in the works...)

Lovelife is nearly dead. (Ah well... that's a whole other long-ass email.)

And my motivation to write more is now dead. :)

So, I'll just leave it at that. I hope everyone is well and I hope to hear from each and every one of you. Talk to you soon.

Take care,
Cheers,
Ed

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