Shiny San Francisco Stories: Sensory overload

[kellinator]

One thing I really didn't expect about San Francisco was the feeling of sensory overload. Everywhere you look, there's something different and nifty... As cool as it is, it's just exhausting. I was falling asleep all over the place. I don't think I made it through a single movie we tried to watch (though in my defense, it was Old School; not even Luke Wilson could keep me awake for that. Owen maaaaaybe, but not Luke. Even though he is beautiful and all).

After my first afternoon in Haight Ashbury, I basically turned to gamgee and asked if I could go lie down for a while until my head stopped spinning. Later, after seeing the Marin Headlands and many different views of the Golden Gate Bridge, all of them cool, and dipping my toes in the Pacific (and that motherfucker is cold!!) for the first time, I was just this big puddle of grinning goo. gamgee said I looked stoned. I think at that point I hit this point... it wasn't quite a saturation point per se, but at that moment I figured I'd seen enough cool stuff that the trip was a success and everything else was just gravy.

But anyway, pretty much every day had me totally out of it by the end. I may have even dozed off in the DNA Lounge. (Don't ask me how. I was just chilling out to the music.) So as much as I loved San Francisco, I kinda wonder if I could live there long term without my head exploding.

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[thedivinemrsm.livejournal.com]

Hey...I'm a friend of allanorn, and found your SF stories extremely amusing. :-) I went ahead and added you to my friends list...hope you don't mind. :-)

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I feel special! :)

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[thedivinemrsm.livejournal.com]

:-) I'm just here to make people feel special. ;-)

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

i lived in San Francisco itself, right on Market Street near City Hall, and my head never exploded... =)

you really don't get totally used to the place -- i mean, every day when i opened my living room blinds and the view of downtown and the Bay greeted me, it took my breath away, even four years later. but this is a Good Thing as far as i'm concerned, because that means you also never get tired or bored of it.

yeh, i could live there again. easily. =)

[whysoblue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's exactly how I felt/feel about it, too!

[sirinek.livejournal.com]

The DNA lounge is cool just for the fact that jwz owns it, and he's one of the people responsible for the modern web browser. :)

He's got linux-powered network stations all around the club. He even had it on webcams all the time.