I was staring at the ceiling of my gym yesterday after an hour of jump rope and yoga. I took even took a picture of the ceiling from where I was lying on my back:

My gym is at the old Alhambra movie theater, which opened in 1926. It used to look like this:







Brrr...

It's freezing in San Francisco right now. At least for San Francisco. I used to live at the base of The Swiss Alps. It was warmer there in February than it is riding on my motorcycle past sundown in San Francisco. 

Still, I love it. Yesterday I hung out in Hayes Valley. The picture above is the corner of Hayes and Octavia.

This one from a parking lot off Hayes closer to Gough.

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Wow. It has been a busy couple of months. I want to get a few more entries in before The New Year. 

Some updates: 

I met my gorgeous niece Amara over Thanksgiving and visited with my family while doing some research about a story I'm incubating about a guy with brothers who gets together with them and the rest of his unusual family around the birth of a new babe. 

SFSU MFA ALUMS READ IN SUPPORT OF FOURTEEN HILLS



PLEASE JOIN ME ON 11/7/07


7PM SFSU's POETRY CENTER


5th Floor Humanities Building


$10 or free with subsription. 




LitCrawl, on the last night of LitQuake, was a blast. Here's my program, my name in it, and then a piece of the back of the program stuck to a table at what my friend Michael and I lovingly call The Low Bottom Cafe, where we ended up after burgers and ice cream. Notice Michael's John Berryman, which I think he scored that night. 

I love my life. 

It's hard to believe that the new semester is in full swing. This is already the forth week! While Fall is my favorite time of year, I'm still hanging onto the last few moments of summer. This one having been such a great one (the photos are from a day I spent on Fire Island). 


Two upcoming events where I'll be reading:

1)  LitCrawl from 6-6:45 at Adobe Books on Saturday October 13th

3166 16th Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

map
cross streets: Guerrero and Valencia


district: Mission



My last week in New York flew by. I got lots of research done, including a tour of one of the hospitals where Michael works—and where one of my characters stays. It's amazing what being in the actual place triggers. I'll write more about Setting in a later post. I'll also be posting more pictures from New York (as requested).