Friday
If you haven't see the movie Friday and don't mind vulgar movies, you should. My Friday was not as exciting as Craig's and Smokey's, but here was my Friday.
Friday was a long day. We had to be in San Francisco by 8 am, to give Gerry a ride to the DMV. We were also supposed to meet up with some people at 6:30 pm to watch a baseball game.
We woke up at 6, got ready, and hit the road at about 7. I've said I'm a morning person in the past, but I'm not a 6 am in the morning, morning person. I'm more a 7:30-8 am morning person.
We got to the city, and headed to the DMV. We were in and out in 40 minutes, then ran some errands. It was about 10, and we didn't know what to do. Gerry thought we should get lunch...but it was 10 am. We went to Clement Street, walked around for about 20 minutes, but the cold, and the fact that Gerry can't walk for too long got us back into the car, and off to Chinatown. I thought we were dropping Gerry off at that point, but she really wanted to go to lunch, so we went to lunch at the best Chinese Vegetarian Restaurant (which we always go to with Gerry) at 11 am. After lunch and getting Gerry home, it was 1 pm.
Lauren and I then hit two museums. The California Historical Society and The Museum of the African Diaspora. The California Historical Society is pretty small, and houses one exhibit at a time. Currently their exhibit is on the history/background of Chinese Americans in California. I thought it was extremely good, and I recommend everyone go see it.
We then went to the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), which was somewhat disappointing. As a member of the African Diaspora, I felt the museum could have done a much better job. Lauren later said "they were trying to do too much and ended up doing too little"; that does a good job of summing it. There was WAY too much focus on African Americans (not that that's a bad thing, but the Museum of African American History has that as its focus and does a spectacular job of presenting it). There was almost no focus of Africans in other parts of the world - very little mention of the Caribbean, almost no mention of African Diaspora in South America, no mention at all that there has recently been a huge migration of Africans to Europe, and to a lesser degree, Asia. After all the fanfare that the MoAD opened to, I expected a lot more.
After the museum jaunts we walked the east end of the city, finding a coffee shop, only to find out that they were closing right after we bought our coffee and sat down.
At 6:30, we met up with people for the Giants game. This was a surprise party for a friend of Lauren's that I had never met. Neither of us had met anyone else in the group (and I don't think many of them had met each other) so it was odd waiting to find people you didn't know.
This was the first baseball game I had ever been too, and no offense to all you baseball fans out there, but baseball is up there in terms of live events I do not want to see again. I hear people say how soccer is hard to watch (which I've never understood, by the way, because there is always movement), and that's exactly how I felt about watching the game. The fact that they have to have little entertainment things between 1/2 innings just to keep the crowd alive must say something about the energy (or lack thereof) the event. People seemed far more into the kiss-cam than the game itself; I can't imagine people getting into a kiss-cam at a soccer game.
Another thing I didn't get is the number of people who go to the game and don't watch it. We left at the end of the 6th inning, and the concourse with food, etc, was PACKED with people just walking around, in no hurry to get back to watching the game. Is that a Giants thing, a baseball thing, or a professional sports thing? At MSU football games (they come to Cal to spank the Bears on August 30th) I can't remember anyone wanting to leave their seat while the game was going on. We left the city and headed home.
We got home at 10:30 pm, and that was Friday.
Friday was a long day. We had to be in San Francisco by 8 am, to give Gerry a ride to the DMV. We were also supposed to meet up with some people at 6:30 pm to watch a baseball game.
We woke up at 6, got ready, and hit the road at about 7. I've said I'm a morning person in the past, but I'm not a 6 am in the morning, morning person. I'm more a 7:30-8 am morning person.
We got to the city, and headed to the DMV. We were in and out in 40 minutes, then ran some errands. It was about 10, and we didn't know what to do. Gerry thought we should get lunch...but it was 10 am. We went to Clement Street, walked around for about 20 minutes, but the cold, and the fact that Gerry can't walk for too long got us back into the car, and off to Chinatown. I thought we were dropping Gerry off at that point, but she really wanted to go to lunch, so we went to lunch at the best Chinese Vegetarian Restaurant (which we always go to with Gerry) at 11 am. After lunch and getting Gerry home, it was 1 pm.
Lauren and I then hit two museums. The California Historical Society and The Museum of the African Diaspora. The California Historical Society is pretty small, and houses one exhibit at a time. Currently their exhibit is on the history/background of Chinese Americans in California. I thought it was extremely good, and I recommend everyone go see it.
We then went to the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), which was somewhat disappointing. As a member of the African Diaspora, I felt the museum could have done a much better job. Lauren later said "they were trying to do too much and ended up doing too little"; that does a good job of summing it. There was WAY too much focus on African Americans (not that that's a bad thing, but the Museum of African American History has that as its focus and does a spectacular job of presenting it). There was almost no focus of Africans in other parts of the world - very little mention of the Caribbean, almost no mention of African Diaspora in South America, no mention at all that there has recently been a huge migration of Africans to Europe, and to a lesser degree, Asia. After all the fanfare that the MoAD opened to, I expected a lot more.
After the museum jaunts we walked the east end of the city, finding a coffee shop, only to find out that they were closing right after we bought our coffee and sat down.
At 6:30, we met up with people for the Giants game. This was a surprise party for a friend of Lauren's that I had never met. Neither of us had met anyone else in the group (and I don't think many of them had met each other) so it was odd waiting to find people you didn't know.
This was the first baseball game I had ever been too, and no offense to all you baseball fans out there, but baseball is up there in terms of live events I do not want to see again. I hear people say how soccer is hard to watch (which I've never understood, by the way, because there is always movement), and that's exactly how I felt about watching the game. The fact that they have to have little entertainment things between 1/2 innings just to keep the crowd alive must say something about the energy (or lack thereof) the event. People seemed far more into the kiss-cam than the game itself; I can't imagine people getting into a kiss-cam at a soccer game.
Another thing I didn't get is the number of people who go to the game and don't watch it. We left at the end of the 6th inning, and the concourse with food, etc, was PACKED with people just walking around, in no hurry to get back to watching the game. Is that a Giants thing, a baseball thing, or a professional sports thing? At MSU football games (they come to Cal to spank the Bears on August 30th) I can't remember anyone wanting to leave their seat while the game was going on. We left the city and headed home.
We got home at 10:30 pm, and that was Friday.
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