Massages and Weddings

Sooooooooo I went out in the vegetable pants on Wednesday. I was recommended to go to a chiropractor three blocks or so from the hostel by a wonderful Jamie Luv. Your first adjustment is free and then someone massages you and you just tip... The man was so incredibly nice, definitely the best Chiro treatment I've ever had :)

The building is full of oil paintings and sculpture created by the Chiropractor... The massage was excellent too(through the clothes too which is interesting) - the therapist stretched my psoas muscles which REALLY needed stretching and I left feeling like a million bucks.

The people there also offered that I could drop by and work for a couple hours here and there. I would just divide the tips up with other therapists at the end of the two hours. I am very tempted!

Once the laundry was done I got ready to go out for another couchsurfing meet. Unfortunately my "wrong way" key chain was speaking truth because I ended up arriving almost two hours late instead of one. I missed a couple BART stops, plus walked the wrong way at first... oh well.

We moved over to a little pub on Potrero that gave out free popcorn to have with our beer. I've only seen peanuts so this was new! I met even more circus people (I am sleeping underneath a very awesome woman named Shelli in school for contortion) and concluded that San Francisco is a big Circus town. I ran into the man (Mitch) that was taking photos on the Sunday Potluck, and should be receiving a couple photos eventually :)

Brian and Shaun from the hostel showed up later with Conner to take us over to the local bar (Specs) to celebrate Bobby's last night out as a single man. I was the only girl at this event, so I guess I got to go to a sort-of bachelor thing. I felt special. For some reason, someone had handcuffs... Poor Conner was handcuffed to the car on the ride there; I had my hand cuffed to a chair for a little while... Eventually the key was given to the barmaid and then both cuffs were put on Shaun's one hand. He had to cut them off with bolt cutters the next morning since we didn't have the key lol.

Thursday consisted of a very scary experience. I went to turn on this baby computer and it would shut itself off about 30 seconds after loading completely. I let it charge: nothin. Looked it up for a couple hours on the other computers but to no avail. The internet was yelling "overheating" but it was NOT overheating! It wouldn't turn on long enough to do anything and even shut off in safe mode. I was FREAKING OUT.

I massaged Shelli, calming down a bit. Shaun then came over and proceeded to look stuff up with me and then proceeded to FIX IT! It was just the battery not quite behaving, so the computer would shut off thinking that the battery was going to explode or something. YAY! I was starting to worry I'd have to ship the thing back on it's warranty to get it fixed.

Relieved, Shelli and I went to a supposed donation yoga next door to the Chiro place... it was a new installment, so the teacher ended up not showing up but we were let into the space (also adorned with lots of oil paintings and we stretched with someone named Margarita for an hour or so. It was nice. Mission Accomplished.

After a rest at the hostel, we proceeded to go hunt out this Cafe that Jamie had also told me to try out. It was an adventure, but we found it 15 minutes before closing. It was an all vegan place with lots of raw food. In other words, it's EXPENSIVE. One big piece of cake was ten dollars! But the decor was pleasant, and they had a hippie game on their tables that we decided would take too long to play. They let us stay till ten thirty, which was nice.

I FINALLY watched Spirited Away last night. I was supposed to watch that sooo many times but it never has worked out. It was so cute! Full of imagination; I loved it :)

Tonight is an event called Alpha Beats. It's at a 1000 person capacity venue, so it should be big. I am helping Jamie decorate the back room so I show up early, (at six) but then I'm guestlisted :)

time to put away breakfast!

Love Leanne