another great couple of days in the city

I feel so connected to SF right now. Ate at Benihana's in Japantown for my friend's birthday (S.Y.--met her at the dorms). Then we saw "Harold and Maude" at the Red Vic at the Haight. It was their birthday too--the cinema, I mean. They had chocolate cake. It was tasty. This cute guy with his girlfriend sat in the row next to me. The girlfriend was going to buy a Coke. The guy was eating the cake, and he says to her, "Ah, man. I'm gonna finish this cake before you come back." It was good cake. He was really funny too--the boyfriend, I mean. He would always joke with his girlfriend. And during the movie, I noticed that he had his arm around her, and she was snuggled up close to him. The rows at the theatre are like long benches with cushions. No armrests. It's perfect for snuggling. Anyway...

It made me feel sort of alone. And I thought about how B. wanted to date me, and how I just totally turned him down because I didn't feel that way about him. During our "date", Mom had called. I was in the bathroom. I told her who I was on a date with. She knows that I don't like him that way, and that I like Scooter. Before she hung up she said, "Don't settle." Just those two words. It really impacted me. Drove me to tell B. the truth. It was an amazing moment for me, and I'll never forget it. Don't settle.

Spent more time alone in the city. Went to the Haight again to get a Dane Cook cd. He's hilarious. Vulgar, at times, but when he's not vulgar, he makes me laugh. Got stuck in the Van Ness station for half an hour because the computers running the subway crashed. It wasn't that bad. Listened to a lot of interesting conversations.

A chance thing happened today. I was biking to school to practice piano, and I ran into Scooter. He was walking with a friend. I said hi while I was still biking, and he said hi and sort of stopped walking and so I slowed down, and he came to me. He said hi again (what a dork!) and asked if I was going to class. I said no. He also said that S.Y. invited him to see a movie tomorrow night at Dolores Park. S.Y. invited me at her birthday. She wanted to get a big group together. Anyway, I think he's going. Yay! We said bye, and I biked away.

I locked up my bike, and I swear, I couldn't stop smiling. Just seeing him made me happy. I couldn't help smiling and laughing to myself about his second "hi", and how he wears a really huge tweed blazer over a t-shirt. It just made me happy.