a couple other small matters....

Pouring rain in SF is better than no rain in Paris. Before the rain I was freckling right up from all that California sun.

However, the croissant at Tartine, my local organic French-style bakery, is not good enough. Everyone I know here is trying some strange diet: no wheat, no sugar, no this, no that. What I wish they would understand is that the problem is not what you include in your diet or not, it is the entire culture's attitude towards food. It's the corporatization of food, eating, diet. it's in the radio waves or something. It's capitalism.