25 Aug 2015 hypatia   » (Journeyer)

Wednesday 26 August 2015

I went to San Franciso a month ago this Friday, for the final stages of planning the Ada Initiative’s shutdown. The first morning I woke up there to the news of Nóirín’s death. I wrote “Nóirín was also one of the strongest and bravest people [I] will ever have the privilege of knowing” that same morning and that’s everything I want to say.

So, the only thing about that trip that makes sense to tell is some images.

Staying in the Mission and being in the sun in the streets full of trees and brightly painted houses finally made San Francisco make sense to me. As was probably inevitable, coming from another beautiful city full of gentrifiers.

Long weekday evenings in the dusk at Dolores Park, watching the fog from a distance. Seeing a rainbow.

Mad Max: Fury Road which I had never expected to see, much less like, even though I had heard about it from feminists more than action fans. (Or maybe they were both!)

But instead of rushing into Furiosa’s cab like everyone else I know, I developed an obsession with Pitch Perfect instead and walked up and down Valencia for hours in the middle of the night listening to its soundtrack.

Eating berries. And paté on apple slices.

My family sending me so much Lindt chocolate in San Francisco that I still have about ⅓ of it now. But I ate all the peanut butter balls before I left.

Broken choppy video chat images of V and A smiling at me.

Cutting down my SIM card from my broken phone with scissors rather than waiting another day to call home.

Walking on a hillside in the hot sun near Muir Woods, in a country where pines are supposed to be and eucalypts are pests.

The purple windows of the 787 that brought me home.

Syndicated 2015-08-25 22:26:38 from puzzling.org

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