and again

My plan was to write about all the cool stuff that I would do here in San Francisco and then I ended up being sick on the couch for the whole first week. I even had to see a doctor, but that's not new to me since this happened last year too. I had to fill out a lot of forms again, but I noticed how friendly and helpful the doctors are. The opposite of their German colleagues, die könnten sich mal ne Scheibe abschneiden. (to take a leaf out of so.'s book)

Anyway, I am able to leave the couch now and I so did some fun stuff:
1. working & being in the office (very refreshing after one week of unintended couch laziness and stupid TV shows)
2. hanging out with Don (he showed me how to play Mankala)
3. nice thanksgiving dinner
4. and finally going out

Yes, I finally went out! We went to a nice movie theater and watch "untitled". The movie was pretty interesting but so was the movie theater too. It name is Bridge and opened in 1939, so it shows movies for 70 years now!
After the movie we went to an Asian Noodle place and I got a mushroom soup. fortunately the soup wasn't 70 years old, it looked a bit scary though with all the mushrooms but turned out to be very very delicious. No, we still didn't drive home: we had a beer in a friend's friend's bar and met some other friends.

Apropos delicious: Thanksgiving! This can be described with few words: wonderful house, food and people.

Oh, and today was Black Friday, the pulic holiday for shopping :) We did not go shopping, but I heard that people actually get killed when the shop doors open and all the impatient people are trying to get one of the limited offers. We kept away from any shops and so we both survived :)