Back from Santa Rosa: I love Cows!
I got up to Cotati around 6 PM on wednesday. Dave came a retrieved me from a little mexican restaurant I'd wondered into when I realized I needed both a bathroom and a phone. The host looked at me a little nervously when he saw my three small suitcases. I ordered a virgin margarita just to make him feel comfortable. Too sweet, but it was tasty anyhow.
When we got to the house Laurie was there and we spent most of the evening talking and chatting like school girls, she's so much fun and I really was glad to spend time with them both. Dave's voice reminds me of my step-grandfather who died when I was just 19, Elmer Mahoney, I loved him dearly. Dave dug out all of his BM pictures to show me, and I promised to show him mine when I get moved up there permanently. I slept well and got up early the next morning with both of them.
I was planning to take the bus over to SSU but it turned out that Laurie was driving that way anyhow so she dropped me off on campus. I was feeling really excited even though the weather was gloomy. I found my way all over campus and finally found the women's resource center. I caught the councilor just as she was walking out and she came back in to talk to me. I mentioned that I was interested in any program that they had designed for women re-entering college later in life. she said that the program had been cut for financial reasons but that the community college still had their's in tact. So that sort of cemented my choice to go to Santa Rosa Community College instead. Which will help me in deciding where to look for a place to live. Now I just have to start in on that letter to mom.
After I left the women's center I walked over to meet Rebec, someone dryadgrrl had put me in touch with who shares a lot of the same lifestyle choices and happened to work on campus. She was very sweet and took me to lunch. At first we were going to try Charlie Brown's Cafe, it's amazing how much stuff is peanuts-centric on that campus, sort of amusing, but not really unexpected since Charles Schulz was well known to have lived in SR. I'd known about the Peanuts museum up there since I was in sixth grade.
She gets her meals free in the cafeteria because she's some sort of den-mother to several dorm captains, it's definitely a paid position. I didn't get to meet her seven year old daughter, too bad. I'm sure she's a sweet kid.
Then I had the rest of the afternoon to myself and not sure where to go. I got directions to the bus stop to see if it would be worth my while to try getting up to Santa rosa community college, but the bus driver who drove up next helped me figure out that it would have taken me till 4 PM just to get up there by bus! And it was only 12:20 then! She also said it would be over an hour till another bus would come by to go back to Cotati, which is only about two miles away! so I decided to walk back by myself. She said it should only take me 25 minutes to take the walk, but it took me about twice that long. Fortunately it wasn't raining yet, but it was might blustery.
I finally got back to downtown Cotati and found a cafe to hang out in. I sat around for an hour and went to the back to make some phone calls to various people who had said to give 'em a jingle when I got up there, also picked up several local rags to check 'want' ads for housing and jobs. found a brochure for something called the sonoma county pagan network and similar sorts of stuff. I started to wonder around on the main drag looking in shops etc, then figured out that I was about to miss the only bus for the next two hours back toward Laurie and Dave's, I tried to wave it down, but I just didn't make it to the bus stop in time, so I wandered around some more :). After more silly flubs and a bowl of chili I finally caught the bus back to L&D's and walked to half mile to their house from the bus stop. I was so tired that I did nothing, but read through some of the literature I had picked up, didn't even take off my coat. That two mile walk from the campus was was probably good for me, and I'm happy to say my feet aren't even sore today. But I was beat. I was just filling a bath after finally getting up, taking off my coat and turning on the house heater, when Dave got home. Laurie arrived while I was in the tub and we all got ready for the poly potluck as quickly as we could not realizing that it started earlier then we remembered. Fortunately there were a lot of people who came late.
I really enjoyed myself at the party. Y. arrived later, Sally was there too, and much to my surprise T. was there also! He asked me if I needed a ride to the Feri class tonight and I said no since I'd learned that Laurie was going to be driving down to San Rafael the next morning anyway.
Then I waltzed briefly with M. the hostess. She was wearing a little black dress with no shoes or stockings, running around the house trying to play hostess and take care of the children. I found myself rather attracted to her. And it seems the feeling is mutual, she flashed me her legs as we were leaving, I thought I'd have a heart attack. I said "whoo, that will last me an hour at least!"
But back to the beginning of the party. One creepy little VEGAN was telling me it was his greatest fantasy to sleep with two bisexual women again. I tried really hard to ignore him the rest of the night.
Which reminds me of the Cows, when I first pulled into the drive way at L&D's I saw the cows and wanted to go kiss them. They were so sweet and docile. I reminded me of my teen years, spent only a block or two away from where I could feed cows through a fence. I was always worried their huge tongues would lick my fingers. And I loved looking into those big brown cow eyes. I think I even saw a cow giving birth one day at the edge of the highway, that was too big to be a cow taking a dump. I feel like I'm recognizing Cows and buffalo as my newest totem. I really don't personally identify with Ravens that much. I just think it's cool that my mother named me that. But I actually identify with Panda Bears, Eagles, Phoenix's, Snakes or grey Lizards, black Cats and Panthers, more than I do with Raven's! I have picked up stuff about Raven's over the years, but my feeling for them is the same for ALL black birds, I like Starlings and especially red-winged black birds, even Magpies. I'm a Scorpio, and I get my Eagle, Phoenix (sacred symbol of pluto which rules scorpio) and grey lizards from scorp. Panda Bears are just something that I love because my first 'teddy bear' was one when I was 5, and because they are black and white. I had that thing till I was 15 and I loved it to death, threw up on it a few times and replaced the tongue, and the eyes, which all happened long after the music box that played all-a-round-the-mulberry-bush fell out of her butt.
But I digress drastically. Back to the part of the party I'm avoiding. ;-).
Sally started flirting with a cute young red head and I mentioned it to her. She said he was too young for her, but that she assured me that he'd made a point of telling her he was older than she thought. She said he was still too young and mentioned his age, I couldn't help saying he was not out of my range, oh I'm so bad. She's gonna kill me for what I told him next (right in front of her)" so you're older than you thought you were", she ran by saying " you little devil" or something like that. It was really quite funny, I think he liked all the attention. I was flirting outrageously. But I knew it wasn't going anywhere that night so it was very amusing. And I couldn't help goading Sally, we've known each other for years and we were both commenting on how this was a rare ocassion, for us to see each other with clothes on LOL. I really had a lot of fun, it felt really nice to see some other people I've known for a while there. I've been saying for weeks that it doesn't even feel like I'm leaving SF, just expanding my horizons;-). God I miss country roads with cows on 'em! If vegans don't grok cows, then they don't deserve to eat them!
When we got to the house Laurie was there and we spent most of the evening talking and chatting like school girls, she's so much fun and I really was glad to spend time with them both. Dave's voice reminds me of my step-grandfather who died when I was just 19, Elmer Mahoney, I loved him dearly. Dave dug out all of his BM pictures to show me, and I promised to show him mine when I get moved up there permanently. I slept well and got up early the next morning with both of them.
I was planning to take the bus over to SSU but it turned out that Laurie was driving that way anyhow so she dropped me off on campus. I was feeling really excited even though the weather was gloomy. I found my way all over campus and finally found the women's resource center. I caught the councilor just as she was walking out and she came back in to talk to me. I mentioned that I was interested in any program that they had designed for women re-entering college later in life. she said that the program had been cut for financial reasons but that the community college still had their's in tact. So that sort of cemented my choice to go to Santa Rosa Community College instead. Which will help me in deciding where to look for a place to live. Now I just have to start in on that letter to mom.
After I left the women's center I walked over to meet Rebec, someone dryadgrrl had put me in touch with who shares a lot of the same lifestyle choices and happened to work on campus. She was very sweet and took me to lunch. At first we were going to try Charlie Brown's Cafe, it's amazing how much stuff is peanuts-centric on that campus, sort of amusing, but not really unexpected since Charles Schulz was well known to have lived in SR. I'd known about the Peanuts museum up there since I was in sixth grade.
She gets her meals free in the cafeteria because she's some sort of den-mother to several dorm captains, it's definitely a paid position. I didn't get to meet her seven year old daughter, too bad. I'm sure she's a sweet kid.
Then I had the rest of the afternoon to myself and not sure where to go. I got directions to the bus stop to see if it would be worth my while to try getting up to Santa rosa community college, but the bus driver who drove up next helped me figure out that it would have taken me till 4 PM just to get up there by bus! And it was only 12:20 then! She also said it would be over an hour till another bus would come by to go back to Cotati, which is only about two miles away! so I decided to walk back by myself. She said it should only take me 25 minutes to take the walk, but it took me about twice that long. Fortunately it wasn't raining yet, but it was might blustery.
I finally got back to downtown Cotati and found a cafe to hang out in. I sat around for an hour and went to the back to make some phone calls to various people who had said to give 'em a jingle when I got up there, also picked up several local rags to check 'want' ads for housing and jobs. found a brochure for something called the sonoma county pagan network and similar sorts of stuff. I started to wonder around on the main drag looking in shops etc, then figured out that I was about to miss the only bus for the next two hours back toward Laurie and Dave's, I tried to wave it down, but I just didn't make it to the bus stop in time, so I wandered around some more :). After more silly flubs and a bowl of chili I finally caught the bus back to L&D's and walked to half mile to their house from the bus stop. I was so tired that I did nothing, but read through some of the literature I had picked up, didn't even take off my coat. That two mile walk from the campus was was probably good for me, and I'm happy to say my feet aren't even sore today. But I was beat. I was just filling a bath after finally getting up, taking off my coat and turning on the house heater, when Dave got home. Laurie arrived while I was in the tub and we all got ready for the poly potluck as quickly as we could not realizing that it started earlier then we remembered. Fortunately there were a lot of people who came late.
I really enjoyed myself at the party. Y. arrived later, Sally was there too, and much to my surprise T. was there also! He asked me if I needed a ride to the Feri class tonight and I said no since I'd learned that Laurie was going to be driving down to San Rafael the next morning anyway.
Then I waltzed briefly with M. the hostess. She was wearing a little black dress with no shoes or stockings, running around the house trying to play hostess and take care of the children. I found myself rather attracted to her. And it seems the feeling is mutual, she flashed me her legs as we were leaving, I thought I'd have a heart attack. I said "whoo, that will last me an hour at least!"
But back to the beginning of the party. One creepy little VEGAN was telling me it was his greatest fantasy to sleep with two bisexual women again. I tried really hard to ignore him the rest of the night.
Which reminds me of the Cows, when I first pulled into the drive way at L&D's I saw the cows and wanted to go kiss them. They were so sweet and docile. I reminded me of my teen years, spent only a block or two away from where I could feed cows through a fence. I was always worried their huge tongues would lick my fingers. And I loved looking into those big brown cow eyes. I think I even saw a cow giving birth one day at the edge of the highway, that was too big to be a cow taking a dump. I feel like I'm recognizing Cows and buffalo as my newest totem. I really don't personally identify with Ravens that much. I just think it's cool that my mother named me that. But I actually identify with Panda Bears, Eagles, Phoenix's, Snakes or grey Lizards, black Cats and Panthers, more than I do with Raven's! I have picked up stuff about Raven's over the years, but my feeling for them is the same for ALL black birds, I like Starlings and especially red-winged black birds, even Magpies. I'm a Scorpio, and I get my Eagle, Phoenix (sacred symbol of pluto which rules scorpio) and grey lizards from scorp. Panda Bears are just something that I love because my first 'teddy bear' was one when I was 5, and because they are black and white. I had that thing till I was 15 and I loved it to death, threw up on it a few times and replaced the tongue, and the eyes, which all happened long after the music box that played all-a-round-the-mulberry-bush fell out of her butt.
But I digress drastically. Back to the part of the party I'm avoiding. ;-).
Sally started flirting with a cute young red head and I mentioned it to her. She said he was too young for her, but that she assured me that he'd made a point of telling her he was older than she thought. She said he was still too young and mentioned his age, I couldn't help saying he was not out of my range, oh I'm so bad. She's gonna kill me for what I told him next (right in front of her)" so you're older than you thought you were", she ran by saying " you little devil" or something like that. It was really quite funny, I think he liked all the attention. I was flirting outrageously. But I knew it wasn't going anywhere that night so it was very amusing. And I couldn't help goading Sally, we've known each other for years and we were both commenting on how this was a rare ocassion, for us to see each other with clothes on LOL. I really had a lot of fun, it felt really nice to see some other people I've known for a while there. I've been saying for weeks that it doesn't even feel like I'm leaving SF, just expanding my horizons;-). God I miss country roads with cows on 'em! If vegans don't grok cows, then they don't deserve to eat them!