Ugh!  I pretty much feel awful today because of the hectic Pride weekend.  Tired, hungover, and a little sunburned–  I feel like I’ve been ridden hard and put away wet.  I managed to get my ass out of the office for a little walk around lunchtime.  I headed down to the Embarcadero:

The foodie inside of the Embarcadero:

This pier is recent.  I love that locals are using it for fishing and that it isn’t just a tourist thing:

The Bay Bridge from the pier

Looking back at the city:

A good friend will be moving into the Infinity towers soon.  He’s very excited about it:

One Rincon Center:

This is the entrance to the PG&E building on Market.  It’s an amazingly intricate Italianate building that was built in the 30′s.  Likey!

The Hyatt hotel with it’s famous revolving restaurant. All restaurants should rotate.

I headed back to the office and had an interesting conversation with my mom who seems to think that it’s OK for me to start riding on the trainer in the house.  Which I’m going to try tonight.  Stay tuned!

Pride Sunday!  We had people over for a boozy, boozy brunch.  Daniel and Nathan, Donald, Richard, and a couple of Mr. Poe’s teachie friends.  We had a massive quantity of food and everybody, including the dogs, had a great time.  Nathan brought his magic camera and most of these pics are from him:

Daniel with Ashley.  Both of them look especially sassy:

Nathan with cocktail:

Me:

Ashley and Jeffery:

Mimi lurking.  She was pretty good all day and didn’t send anybody to the emergency room.  You go, girl!

The dogs were pretty much wiped out by the time the food came out:

Me looking savage:

Nathan and Ashley:

Mr. Poe and Mimi.  She’s all “Why won’t these people leave???”

Me:

Sweet little Ashley:

Me with Daniel:

Mr. Poe and I needed a nap after the guest left and then I made up another batch of deviled eggs and we headed over to Ben and Courtney’s for their housewarming party/Ben’s birthday party.  I hope he likes the gift I got him!

I had all shades of fun on Saturday.  Mr Poe and I had tickets to the King Tut exhibit in the late afternoon.  I talked him into walking both ways.  Which was lots of fun because the weather was gorgeous.  I love going to the De Young because the building is so spectacular:

The Tut exhibit itself does not get a rave.  It was very small and not a great sampling of the actual collection and was kind if disappointing.  I was really surprised by this given the amount of fanfare that the exhibit had gotten and the fact that we had to pay $22.50 for tickets even though we were members.  And the asshole guards were on patrol and I got yelled at for using my Iphone to access the internet.  They need to do something about the guards at the De Young.  Some of them are just awful.  I’ve been to just about every museum in the city and many, many more worldwide and I’ve never been spoken to like the guards at the De Young do.  It’s almost a reason not to go. 

I managed to talk Mr. Poe into walking home by promising him pizza in the Haight.  I got a few shots of the park as we headed over.  It was a glorious day.  Warm but not too hot, sunny, perfect.

The California Academy of Sciences:

A sculpture from the original De Young.  One of the few original pieced that remain on the site:

Some monument to Spanish Explorers:

Fabulous planting on JFK:

St. Ignatius from the Panhandle:

Hello gorgeous!

The view from the top of the Saturn Steps:

We went home and had a little dinner and I made some deviled eggs and then we headed over to a party at Jeff Nanney’s house.  It got a little raucus:

We didn’t stay too late because we were really, really tired.  We went home and went to bed.

I got a whopping 10 hours of sleep last night.  Thank you, Ambien.  I’m feeling a lot better today as a result.  I had to go to the dentist today, but when I got there they told me they couldn’t clean my teeth until I’d taken antibiotics an hour before my appointment because of my knee surgery and that I’d have to reschedule.  They probably should have told me that when I had to reschedule my original appointment because of knee surgery or when Mr. Poe had discussed my knee surgery with them on Tuesday.  But the fact of the matter is that I don’t like going to the dentist and I wasn’t going to quibble about the source of my reprieve even though it was likely their error.  I passive agrressively rescheduled my appointment for August and skipped my way down to Union Square.  I took some pics on the way:

I was out of my appointment too early to go to the comic store in the Castro so I went to the one on market and then got a burrito.  The wind was blowing and the flags on Market looked fabulous:

Financial District liciousness:

I went back to the office and ate my lunch and was in a burrito coma for several hours after.

I’m am not sleeping well.  Not at all.  I’m sleeping for about 45 minutes and then I’m getting a leg cramp or a muscle spasm and then I’m up and then I fall asleep again.  It’s totally what I expected and it’s going to be a recurring theme for a long time.  That doesn’t mean I’m much fun to be around.  I couldn’t get out of bed at all this morning.  I almost worked from home but I don’t want get started doing that because getting moving again needs to be my top priority and working from home is more conducive to me sitting around and eating snacks all day.  Mr. Poe drove me to Muni.  This took some prodding.  There were multiple slurs hurled at both parties but in the end the “douchebag” who needed to “get off the cross because they need the wood” relented and dropped me off at the Castro Muni station.  My hero.

I don’t understand these tiny cans of Diet Coke.  Not at all.  Are they sized for people for whom a twelve ounce can would be a deal breaker??  A coworker suggested that they’re for guests.  I can imagine how that would work:  “I only like you a little so you’re getting the eight ounce can.  Drink up and then get the fuck out!”

I went for a walk in the afternoon that perked me up quite a bit.  I’m sore pretty much everywhere but it’s easy to get past that when the weather is agreeable.  I headed up to Nob Hill.

Stockton Street looking North from the top of the tunnel:

A Cable Car and the Ritz Carlton:

I think the Ritz Carlton building was at one point an art school. 

It’s very finely detailed:

Grace Cathedral from Huntington Park:

The beautiful doors:

The view towards Russian Hill:

A pretty apartment building on Taylor:

The view down Washington:

Russian Hill:

I love this apartment building on Taylor which is both Modern and Traditional at the same time:

Interesting Detail:

Me:

Cool alley:

Empire apartment building on Jackson:

Asianlicious building on Jackson:

Telegraph Hill from Kearny:

Gorgeous facade on Jackson:

The firehouse on Sansome:

I’m hoping I’ll get more sleep tonight.  Stay tuned!

I headed into Chinatown over lunch.  I’m super sore but moving around makes me feel a bit better.  After a while.  I haven’t been in Chinatown in a long time.  It’s super colorful:

Chinatown has tons of alleys that you can wander around in and it’s easy to get a little turned around and be surprised by where you end up:

I found these cool Buddhist Murals on one of them:

And some apparently pre earthquake houses in another:

The Broadway Tunnel:

I moved on to Russian Hill.  This is the Virgin of Guadalupe Church:

It’s not in the greatest shape.  The mosaic over the entrance is crumbling:

This pretty mansion has an enormous apartment building behing it.  It’s huge!

Telegraph hill:

St Peter and Pauls:

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I hadn’t been in.  It’s very pretty.  A little dark and hard to photograph without a flash which I wasn’t going to use:

The Financial District from Washington Square Park:

An interesting building on Broadway

The Financial District from Broadway:

Me back at the office.  Think pink!

I was really beat this morning, slept in a little and made Mr. Poe drop me off at the Church Street Muni on his way to a meeting.  I’m hoping I perk up by lunch. 

Watch this video.  I really, really like it.  Fauxnique!  What a great drag name!  Mine is the Bond girl inspired “Tucky Galore”.

Here are some links to the girls in the vid:

Katya Smirnoff Sky -  who’s super cute as a boy.
Hoku Mama
Fauxnique
Peaches Christ
Vinsantos
Kiddie

Mr. Poe had to come downtown mid day for a dentist appointment which meant that I got a free lunch out of it.  Free lunch!  I walked through Chinatown on my way to pick him up at his dentist’s office.

California and Grant:

Looking down Grant Street from Market:

The Chinatown gate:

This is the Medical Dental Building, a masterpiece of Maya Revival style that was built in the 30′s.  It’s hard to get good pics of it:

Check out the super fantastic lobby:

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I picked up Mr. Poe and we headed towards Market:

Hello gorgeous:

The DeBeers building.  likey:

Crocker Galleria:

The flags are out for the Pride Festival this weekend.  I don’t think I’m making the parade.  I’ve been focusing on walking as much as possible to get my legs moving again and it’s pretty much left me a hot mess.  I don’t know that I have it in me to stand for a couple of hours and watch the parade.  I haven’t signed up to work at the Different Spokes booth for the same reason.  We’re having a couple of people over for brunch and I’m thinking I’ll head down after that for an hour.  Mostly to see that super tan naked guy.  If you live in San Francisco and ever go to street fairs you know who I’m talking about. 

New Montgomery:

We ate at Chipotle which I’m quite fond of because I like a couple of their salsas and I love their guacamole and I like that you watch them make your burrito so you can make sure that it is free of unauthorized ingredients.  I walked Mr. Poe back to Union Square so he could go shopping for some new pillow cases as some of ours have been partially eaten by Rufus.  And I really don’t blame him for it.  I think if on his own his behavior is perfect.  It’s really a combination of Ashley being an instigator and Rufus being incredibly stupid.  It goes like this:

Ashley:  “Hey look at me Rufus!  I’m chewin’ on the pillow cases!  I’m sassy!”
Rufus:  “Oh, we’re chewin’ on the pillow cases now.  I’m in!”

I think this is also the way that Rufus got mixed up in Mimi’s Ponzi scheme.  We walked through Yerba Buena on the way back to Macy.  The Jewish Museum, which I have shockingly now been to, is such a gorgeous building.  I’m putting it on my list of things I want to do before Mr. Poe goes back to school in August:

Pretty fountain in the courtyard:

The view up O’Farrell from Market:

Detail on that fabulous building with the Goldschmid clothiers in it:

The Palomar from O’Farrell and Stockton:

I dropped Mr. Poe off at Macy and headed back to work.  I got some pics of the Financial District as I went.  This is Sutter Street from Kearny looking north:

I think this is called the Equitable building.  It’s been recently reclad in marble and it’s super fantastic.

The view down Montgomery from Sutter:

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Looking south up Pine from Sansome:

I was sooooo beat when I got home and was eager to go to bed.  I’m definitely getting stronger but it isn’t easy.  I knew it wouldn’t be.

I was very stiff this morning.  Very, very stiff.  My knee doesn’t hurt at tall but I’m sore pretty much everywhere else.  Which is expected and, although not very pleasant, acceptable.  I thought it was a good idea to get off of muni at Powell instead of Montgomery to give myself a few extra blocks to stretch out my legs a little more. 

The Flood building from the escalator at the Powell Street Muni:

This little building has an incredible facade.  With fabulous detail:

Likey:

The windows at the Louis Vuitton store are all decked out for Pride:
 

The Chinatown gate on Grant:

No comment:

I”m not a huge fan of the Bank of America building.  But my friend Daniel took these great pics of yesterday and I wanted to revisit it in all its angles:

This is the building across the street.  I don’t like it.  I’ts hard for me to pinpoint exactly what it is I don’t like about it.  The fake chateau-ness??  The bizarrely out of scale statues??  Where to start?:

Getting off of Muni at Powell turned out to be a good idea.  I felt a little better by the time I got to the office.

I went back to work at the office today.  I’ve missed it.  Being stuck in the house all the time was super boring.  I won’t be commuting on by bike for a couple of months so sadly it was Muni for me.  I got a few pics on Sansome as I headed into the office:

I love these amazing sculptures in front of the old Pacific Exchange.  I think I was lucky with the light:

Over lunch I went for a walk around the Financial District and the South Financial District.  I’m working on getting my walking speed up.  It isn’t exactly comfortable and it isn’t going to be so for a long time but it’s definitely a necessary part of getting back to where I was.  The weather was being very cooperative.  It was in the seventies without a cloud in the sky.  I love the Embarcadero Buildings.  So textural and all sexy angles and fabulous in a variety of lights:

Interesting sculpture in the Embarcadero center:

Transamerica Pyramid:

This pretty fountain is in the plaza in front of One Maritime Plaza:

As was this sculpture:

One Maritime Plaza:

More of the Embarcadero:

Walton Park at Jackson and Front is also littered with interesting sculptures:

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I wasn’t crazy about this fountain/sculpture.  It looks better in photographs:

As is the Embarcadero Plaza:

The Ferry Building which is another one of those building that I kind of stalk and like to photograph from many angles:

Pylons from a pier with the North Bay rising in the background:

The Bay Bridge:

Ferry:

Telegraph Hill from the Ferry Building:

I love the angles on this Ferry structure

The South Financial District:

The Embarcadero as seen from the Ferry Buildings.  See??  It’s fabulous from any angle:

One of the city’s vintage streetcars in front of the Audiffred Building.

Another one of our vintage streetcars.  It’s streamlinericious:

The Bay Bridge from the park at about Howard:

The Infinity Towers.  I love these buildings:

One Rincon Hill.  My fondness for this building is well documented:

This is an interesting alley in the South Financial District:

This is the Waateekaa Train Museum in front of the Bechtel Cente.  It sucks.  I mean really, really sucks.  I was hoping to learn about the Bechtel family or trains.  Instead it’s an exhibit of the many, many triumphs of the Bechtel corportations.  I felt totally gipped.  And the museum is free.  I took pics of the inside, but really why bother:

Me back on Sansome:

I’m pretty happy with the pace I kept up but I was very, very sore when I got back to work.  No knee pain at all which is good.  It’s everything else which is expected.  Stay tuned!