did the downtown oakland thing today -- something i never do -- funny that when i'm about to leave it all behind, that i start something new and somewhat interesting. i walked down to chinatown and had a good and cheap lunch at some divey restaurant. since it's sunday -- it's a busy market day so the streets were just full of people. after that i walked a few more blocks down the road and ended up at a place called JACK LONDON SQUARE. i have no idea who he was, but he was important enough to be named for the city's harbor/embarcadero area. i just stopped into barnes and noble, bought a book and some magazines and my (of late) my usual starbucks triple venti vanilla latte. yummy. i spent the better part of 2 hours just lounging about enjoying the nice, yet, overcast sunday afternoon near home.

mark, the roommate, just left for work. looks like i'll be going out and getting messy on the town by myself. woo-haa.