My new apartment

Just a quick post - more to come. I am moving into a studio at Duboce & Church this weekend. I've basically been calling it "the heart of the gay". Already, as I walked home from picking up the keys, I was thrilled to see the gay boys on every corner. This is one of those romantic visions I moved to SF for.

My new place is small but it's really bright and the kitchen has a full-sized gas stove, a bigger fridge than I've had for the last 6 months, and built-in shelves. There's room for my table & chairs, plus room for a nice chopping board island that I've been coveting. Though it's technically a studio and I will have to put my bed and couch in the same room there is a HUGE closet. It's about 19 feet long, walk-in, 3.5 feet wide, and the back wall (all 19 feet of it) is covered in built-in shelves. Plus the ceilings are close to 10 feet high and I can put a second level of storage up at about 7.5 feet.

Pics to come as I work on moving myself in and taking advantage of all that space. I love vertical space.

5 Exams then a plane ride to the homeland...

Hi. It's been a while, and no video this time either. I swear I still call myself a videoblogger, and I still think like one...just not getting any videos up to the internets.

In the meantime, a quick update because I am inspired by the fact that my entire family is now blogging...which is amazing!

You can read for yourself here:

• Moms (via Muheza, now Victoria)


• My sister Rachel (in Korea)


• Ambrose & Leah


• Griffin


• Simon

Now I'm trying out Google reader so that I am made aware of their updates. It's been a while since I've followed blogs that aren't aggregated by a planet. Time to push myself to get out there more and break away from my school-induced tunnel vision.

In my corner of the world, I moved into a new apartment and have done some basic things to make it a comfortable homework-hovel.

The Living Room (aka homework cage):

Well-Adjusted Hound who will follow me anywhere so long as the bed is there too:

The Kitchen


My first home cooked meal: fishcakes, sauteéd turnip green, red pepper aioli


Finally, I've been listening to lots of great music lately. Been going to quite a few more live shows that usual. Recently I've had the pleasure of seeing Santogold, Sunset Rubdown, Rae Spoon and this coming Friday I will be seeing The Dears and Metric because my sister Lisa is playing bass for The Dears now.

If you want to check out some of the music I've been listening to, download this playlist ( file size: 117MB) and enjoy.