Entre Nous.

Rest In Pissed off-ed ness

But wait.  "There's another boy genius who's fucking gone."  Hunter, sometimes only Bikini Kill lyrics seem appropriate.  I had a horrendous job interview today.  I need a cocktail.  Preferably a pink one.

Anna (who I was a nanny for in Berkeley) turned 3 last week.  Her mom just sent me pictures of the event.  She had a ballerina themed party.  I'm digging the pink ensemble. 

I should have forgotten you long ago

"Ashby to Eighty
Eighty to the Bridge
Bridge down to One
Route One carry on"

I'm missing the Bay Area (Berkeley specifically).  The neighborhood I used to live in is called "The Elmwood".  Don't you love it?  I think it's just asking to be made into a neighborhoodies sweatshirt.

These were the important parts:

• Movie nights with Kate (and the hilarity of the fact that she didn't own a TV or DVD player and although I did she could not enter my apartment due to being allergic to my cat.  So for our weekly movie nights I would have to carry the TV and DVD player from my apartment to hers.  We lived across from each other in the same building so it's not as big a deal as it sounds).
• Cocktails at Cesars (and the night we had to walk all the way back to your apartment while trying to keep each other from falling over).
• Willard Park (where I first encountered the homeless man with the seat cover he'd constructed for his bike out of a Louis Vuitton bag, so Berkeley!).
• Looking at art books at Cody's Books (while waiting for you to get out of class).
• Trying to figure out what house Michael Chabon lived in (he shops at the Star Grocery!)
• The Star Grocery (where they still let people put their groceries on a "tab").
• Tuesday evenings (cheap movie night at the Elmwood Theater).
• Seeing Belle and Sebastian for the second time (when Alina came to visit).
• Cheap sushi (at Man Puku, where they remember my order!).
• Expensive sushi (at Kirala - the best in the east bay).
• The day Anna FINALLY said my name (well she said "Nessa" but she was 2 and 1/2 and I'd been her nanny for two whole years before she could say it).
• Seeing Margaret Cho with Sarah (but first drinks at Cesars).
• The view of SF (from the Paragon Bar at the Claremont Hotel).
• My first dinner at Chez Panisse ( Welcome to ChezPanisse.com ) (upstairs - but we had too many drinks next door to enjoy it - you paid!).
• My second dinner at Chez Panisse (downstairs - with my mom - I paid!).
• Alice's funeral (where everyone kept asking Kate and I if we were sisters - FYI if you see two redheads together it doesn't mean they are related).  I just used the term "FYI", how embarassing.
• The Alameda Point Antiques Fair (the first Sunday of every month).
• Videots (where I won 50 free movie rentals for guessing last years Academy award winners, go me).
• Launderland (people would come from as far away as South Oakland to do their laundry here, and their Terminator pinball game was swell).
• Ozzie's Soda Fountain (it was all about their grilled cheese sandwiches and their view of the hills).
• Kisses from Jules (the most stylish boy in The Elmwood - he wore a tux to his Birthday party! so posh).