Saw in person my first Xangan today, Nick! (besides people I knew before finding them on Xanga).

I forgot to snap a picture, and I realized shamefully that if I don’t write or don’t take pictures, my memory is often faulty (regardless if I care or not, it just seems deficient when it comes to events -_-”…I am not sure why I fail so…).  So here’s a little tribute to today’s lovely adventures + recap of my day.

So my day started off being very pathetic…I awoke and grumbled about the time while answering a call from my dad needing my mom’s flight information (groggy and slightly grouchy some mornings…today was one of them).  Yesterday, I had visited a bakery, Tartines, with my sister and a park, Dolores.  I bought her a pastry with pepper and Gruyere cheese, which is her fav and a buttermilk currant scone (it had sugar crystals on it…and I basically love most sweets with sugar crystals…couldn’t help it!).  So since she ate her pastry, she wheedled for me to buy her one to replace it for our upcoming trip.  So today my plan was to revisit Tartines and buy one and then visit the park again.  Well, it was close to noon, so I did not want to leave for fear that Tartines would be super crowded since it was lunch time, and not wanting to hangout in the noon sun…so I decided to delay my trip for a few hours.

How did I spend that time?  I had already finished catching up with Big Bang Theory and HIMYM, so I was kind of stumped.  Then I saw this ridiculous video with dancing gnome looking people and ended up watching YouTube video upon YouTube video of America Got Talent.  The pathetic part is that I saw some incredible videos that caused me to tear up–some because of the performance, and some because of the sheer happiness of the contestants at being accepted.  Then suddenly I got a call from Nick saying he wasn’t too far/if I still wanted to hangout.  Yay!  I was pretty excited, probably the most happy I have been since being in SF besides when I first saw my sister. 

I’m not really too familiar with the area, so when he arrived we stopped by Tartines since I needed to grab a pastry for my sis; and I grabbed a scone for Nick because I thought it was pretty fantastic the day before (nom nom!) and we swung by the park briefly too since I knew at least it’d be pretty.  After returning we chatted a bit more before going to visit my sister working at Facebook!  The traffic was horrific on the way there (ugh…o_o), horrible in a small-town-person-wouldn’t-understand-way, though visiting large cities had prepped me for it (but that doesn’t take away from the aversion towards traffic…meh).  After we arrived, we found my sis and got a little introduction to some of her co-workers and then toured the two campuses briefly.  I was excited about all the Magritte references found around Facebook since he was one of my favorite artists (!).  Got a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg from afar too.  :O  I was pretty excited about being in such a nerdy environment as a whole. :3  Yay…but unfortunately my sis said since they’re relocating a lot of the cool stuff has already been removed.  :.  We then ate dinner which was quite scrumptious (I guess Indonesian food?).  I was particularly excited about my sparking apple juice and the fried tofu they had and some of their rice (with coconut stuff in it??  Reminded me of Thai food, nom nom!). [wait...did my sister just chuckle in her sleep?...updating in the dark >_>]  Then we bounced back to San Fran, but took a different and much prettier (and faster) route.   It was gorgeous…so many hills…it’s nice seeing topography, especially coming from Florida where it is flat as a pancake.  D:!  We hardly even have hills, it seems; though we should since we should have some karst topography with our groundwater/aquifer/sinkhole/limestone/etc…(?)..or maybe it’s just flat where I’m from (well, in Marion County, apparently our highest landmark was our landfill…fail -__-”).

(:

I chatted briefly with my sis’s roommates after getting home again; two of which are doctors :3 (!).  But then I got tired and went to hide out in her room, doing a combination of packing and laying plastered to the floor.  (Yes, pathetic -_-”)…I guess sleep calls now, since we need to catch Caltrain [?] and BART to find our aunt tomorrow to hitchhike to LA. …zzz.

P.S. Xanga rearranged my tags alphabetically when I hit edit !  And it removed my exclamation marks …