In case you’re a yokel, like me, it’s pronounced “hate”, not “haight”…  How do I know this?  The disembodied voice on the bus told me so!

Tall!boy and I went over to HA for the afternoon.  The bus was CROWDED and there were the most obnoxious 14 year old boys talking about beating up on each other and getting high.  Boys are dumb at that age, for sure.

We had lunch at the BEST cafe — All You Knead.  It reminded me of Magnolia Cafe or the original Kerbey Lane back home.  We then went to Crepe Express and the gal behind the counter was the nicest ever.  She and I kind of look alike, according to tall!boy.  I take that as a compliment, because she was beautiful.

While tall!boy went down to Amoeba, I went all over.  I was disappointed with Mendel’s.  If I wanted to buy polyester and nylon, I’d go to Joann’s and not pay SF prices for it all.  I bought a Pigma Pen and some matboard for my cross-stitch project.  My back hurt from standing on the bus (the constant stopping and starting is murder on the knees, too) so I went to the bookstore down the block and sat in the ONE CHAIR in the whole store.  It happened to be by the paper doll books, which were fun to look through.  Their quilting and sewing section?  Two books: one on art “quilting” (no quilting involved, please note) and Denise Schmydt’s book.  Shame.  I was looking forward to buying something.  I did end up getting Candy Girl (the auto-bio of the writer of Juno) and a book about the history of HA.

After the bookstore, I met up with tall!boy and we went to a different cafe that I heard has the best chai in town.  Ok, yes, it was good, but they used skim milk the first time and that’s just not optimal.  I asked for half-and-half the second time and YUM.  I decided to stay and read Candy Girl while tall!boy went to another record store.  Chated with the guy behind the bar and had a grilled cheese sandwich — BY FAR the best grilled cheese I’e had in my life.  He said it is: provolone and sharp cheddar with fresh salted butter and fresh baked French bread.  I have challenged tall!boy to try and replicate it.  He makes a killer g.c.

I think if I lived in SF, I would either have to spend a lot of time in HA or live there.  It’s the only place I’ve been this whole week and felt really comfortable.  It’s very much like SoCo back home.

Off to bed.  More tomorrow — we’re going to take the cable car to the end of the line and see what’s there.