Down on Castro Street

[mishalak]

The real trouble for me in finding people to hang out with after work is that I cannot think of anything I'd like to do. I just have a vague uneasy sense that I might as well be in Birmingham, AL as San Francisco for all that I am getting or will get out. Walk to work put in nine hours return to my temporary lodgings type for a while on Steve's computer and go to be around ten a night. Wake up at six in the morning and do it all again. And now I am joining a chorus of uninteresting people complaining about such things in my journal. Some days I really am just an engine for turning good food into shite.

Comments

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

Hey now, sweet pea. Everyone feels that way the first week at camp. It's overwhelming and dead boring at the same time.

If you're working downtown just go for a walk. Grab a cable car. Any damn thing. Do you have a bus pass? Bus passes are good on the cable cars.

Get a map, dude. Get the AAA guidebook. You can spend a couple weeks doing the tourist stuff, get that out of the way before you start digging deeper.

You're in SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!!!!! I hear they have a very nice wharf. With fishermen!

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

A) Uninterested in doing tourist stuff.
B) Not enough money to be a tourist even if I was interested.
C) Been here, done that.
D) Doing tourist stuff is not meeting friends.

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

I do remember that part of moving to Berkeley, namely staring out the apartment window, not having a clue where to go, or what to do, and thinking "I wish I had enough money for beer and cigarettes."

C) Been here, done that.

Well, then do something untouristy. Like rob a tourist!

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Give it time - you just got there.

[ajournalguy.livejournal.com]

You're in SF??? That's what I get for not paying attention. I love SF... Just go out to the bar some night, look like you are new and uncomfortable( shouldn't be too hard)... When I visited the guys were all really friendly, and you're a lot cuter than me. The first people you meet may not be the ones you'll want to form lasting bonds with, but if they're the kind who strike up a conversation with you, they probably have *lots* of other friends to introduce you to.

[julesjones]

Your first week in a new job in a new town. Of course you're going to be tired, disorientated and bored. Give yourself another week or two to get over the shock of the move before deciding that you have turned into a blob. :-)

Could be worse - you could be in a small seaside village in Holland with only your company-supplied laptop and the reading material you picked up in the airport for something to do. Which didn't bother me overly, since I am an unsociable git anyway and I *like* sand dunes, but I could have done without the hour-long bus ride to the nearest shop stocking English language sf and a bunch of people I knew from online....

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Turned into? No, I lament that I've been this sort of person for years and that I still am. It's no use moving somewhere new if I'm the one doing the moving.

I've been the type that stays in and reads a book when vacationing in New York since I was little.

[3appleshigh.livejournal.com]

bored at work and stumbled across your lj, but wanted to say welcome to town. and definitely give it a little bit. its a pretty easy city to navigate since its relatively small and has something to cater to all different types of things.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there was even a society for shy book readers. But it broke up when everyone felt more like staying in with a cup of hot tea and a Harry Potter book than going out.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Also, hi! How long have you been in San Francisco?

[3appleshigh.livejournal.com]

hey. i've been here forever. heh. well, 9 years anyway.

and never picked up a potter book but always hear its worth the read.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Nine years isn't forever. Now twelve, that's a different story. Oh and I lived for 27 years in Colorado. Never more than 70 miles from where I grew up.

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

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