I wasn’t looking forward to returning to SF, let alone work, I wanted to carry on exploring Mexico and not go back to my desk. And I discovered that my bike had a puncture so I had to get the bus.
But things looked up when Peter gave me a story to work on within five minutes of being in the office. He had been to a shop up in Fairfax, over the Golden Gate Bridge and had found these framed book covers. The woman who makes them is a librarian from SF who rips off nice covers or illustrations from old books that are going to be destroyed, frames them and resells them as art. I have been instructed to find her, interview her and write a story. Not hard hitting investigation but finally after six weeks I have been given something to do. Other stories that I am going to work on are a Good, Bad and Ugly round up of ethnically related stories from the Olympics and a Q&A with a woman who is an Agony Aunt for undocumented youth. So feeling better about work, it’s always a good feeling to have something to do and achieve.
Monday night I had a really weird dinner of cream of tomato soup with noodles, swiss chard, sweetcorn and croutons. It sounds disgusting and if I had been served it in a restaurant I would definitely have sent it back but it was edible and quite nice. The croutons added a nice crunch.
Tuesday, we had been asked to attend a media conference that NAM had organised to discuss Ethnic Minorities and the Environment. We were bums on seats and made up about half of the audience but it was an interesting talk and we got a free lunch. A report has just come out which says that Latinos and Blacks are more concerned about environment issues such as air pollution and want to see the government act now but know less about specific issues such as fracking and cap and trade policies. I wonder if the ethnic media’s focus on only issues that are directly relevent to their specific ethnic group means that topics such as broad environmental policies so not make it on to their pages. The study had questioned 2,500 people so it is not exactly extensive, like a lot of these studies.
I walked back to the office as it was a beautiful day, the weather has been really nice this week. I had an early dinner at the Vietnamese cafe that is becoming my fail safe choice for something quick, cheap, delicious and not something bizarre concocted by me. Tuesday night yoga. There was the most amazing sunset as I came out. Two low lying streaks of fluorescent pink sat along the horizon as if a painter had just swept their brush across the sky.
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