Urban Girl Almanac

It’s been another busy week in San Francisco. The last few days were full of fabulous weather, fun parties and a few challenges. Here’s what I learned:

• The only thing worse than serving jury duty is being put on jury duty standby. I had to talk to that bossy voicemail system more than ten times this week.
• Baking almost 100 cupcakes in one night is surprisingly easy.
• Cobb salad! One of the best foods on the planet.
• Cheesy summer television shows are lovely (and extremely formulaic, where do they find all these crabby brits?) ! I love Hasselhoff!
• When you host 12 ladies for a cupcake decorating party everyone will have fun but very few will actually admit to planning on eating their besprinkled creations.
• “Besprinkled” is my new favorite word!
• San Francisco’s normally charming hills become death hikes when the temperature passes 80 degrees.
• Pride week! Rock on fabulous San Francisco gays!
• The Grand Cafe is a fun place to have breakfast.
• Giving directions to confused tourists is a good deed and a good test of your bus/train knowledge.
• Don’t ever, ever eat chips and salsa on the bus.
• An effective defensive move for kickball shortstops: jump around with your arms over your head and yell “kick it to me.” It’s very distracting to your opponents.
• Two bikinis, two books, two pairs of pants and two sweaters is all you need for a weekend at the beach in Santa Cruz.
• Don’t forget about free public transportation on Spare the Air days this summer.

I’m off to the beach for a nice relaxing weekend!