On beyond Zebra

Said Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell,
My very young friend who is learning to spell:
The A is for Ape and the B is for Bear.
The C is for Camel and the H is for Hare.
The M is for Mouse and the R is for Rat.
I know all 26 letters like that ……..

Through to Z is for Zebra, I know them all well.
Said Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell.

So now I know everything anyone knows.
From beginning to end, from the start to the close.
Because Z is as far as the alphabet goes.

Then he almost fell flat on his face on the floor
When I picked up the chalk and drew one letter more !
A letter he never had dreamed of before !

And I said, You can stop, if you want, with the Z
Because most people stop with the Z
But not me !

In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I'm telling you this, cause you're one of my friends
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends !

-DR SEUSS-

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"Make sure that you have exhausted everything that you can communicate by motionlessness and silence."
- Robert Bresson
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Cinématographe, 1975

Allright allright

So it became like any other diary I have ever had. Start out positive, end up never writing again after five days. But we are here to break bad habits.

A lot has happened over the last few weeks. We had Halloween, I went to Los Angeles for a week, Obama was elected president (and I cried over the acceptance speech), and I found a nice place to live.

Next goals: find a job, a better bike, learn how to drive.

In the meantime, some pictures to illustrate.


New room...

I live in the Sunset area now. As you may or may not know, San Francisco has several microclimates. I live in the misty one. But, lucky enough, it has been really sunny and warm these last few days. I had never expected this weather, as someone sort of told me SF would be like Amsterdam, weather wise. Now I can tell you for sure that it has never been 25 degrees celcius in November back home.
This week, as I was exploring my new neighbourhood, I decided to go to the beach. The beach is about twenty five blocks from here, which is sort of walking distance or really short tram distance. There is only one way to go: straigh ahead, till you hit the water, it's incredible. So, I live by the beach. And by the Golden Gate park, that's tomorrows excursion.




Me, and the road to the ocean..


Halloween with Bryant and Andrea.


Laura Dols, Martien and me, driving around with evening gowns in the city of angels..

So. If anyone needs me, my NEW contact information is:
1433 23rd Avenue
San Francisco CA, 94122
1 (415) 577 4048
skype: avamees