Work is much better, having stuff to do makes a world of difference. I lent my ‘Pinheads and Patriots’ book to Elena, one of the editors. Now I’m a bit embarrassed that I went through underlining bits. I did stress quite emphatically that they were things that interested/surprised/shocked me rather than things that I agreed with.
Today all of the interns were taken out for lunch by the editors as most of us are leaving soon, we all got given certificates too. We all got given $10 to spend, at an outdoor food court. I went for Hawaiinese food, which is a weird mixture of Japanese and American. It was nice to get a chance to chat more to some of the editors; Elena must be one of the only editors who lives in the city and doesn’t have kids. If I was staying I would probably have made her be my friend but with only a week to go there is little time left for new friendships.
I posted my story about the Olympics (http://newamericamedia.org/2012/08/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-olympics-2012.php), not my greatest journalistic achievement and I wasn’t overly happy with the editing but that is the lot of a lowly hack. I power walked up to Sutter Street to buy a camera that I had seen yesterday. It is Lomo camera, a film camera originally made by the USSR but not reinvented and super trendy. I like it because it is a good quality film camera but is very light and easy to take snaps with. Then I rushed on to the cinema to see ‘Searching for Sugar Man’, a documentary about the singer Rodriguez who recorded a couple of flop albums in Detroit in the late ‘60s. Without knowing it, he became a mega star in South Africa, the sound of a generation, inspiration to the white, anti-apartheid youth. The doc followed two South Africans who tracked him down and brought him over to S.A. in the late ‘90s to perform sell out concerts to stadiums of 20,000 or more. The notion that you can be leading a virtually subsistence lifestyle on one side of the world whilst also being a musical inspiration on the other is crazy.
Supper tonight was similar to Monday’s odd concoction but instead of tomato soup I substituted yoghurt and chilli sauce, and added sauerkraut. In hindsight the sauerkraut was a step too far. Clearing out the fridge I threw away an opened carton of Half and Half, which is half cream, half milk, that had been open since my first week. I presumed that it would be yoghurt by now but it seemed perfectly fine as I poured it down the drain. After six weeks that should not be fine, what do they put in that stuff?
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