sadie and her food: Probation and the end of Probation

the 24 hours

John and I decided not to have any contact with each other for 24 hours.

At first I tried drawing, and went to Toscanini's, where they had honey

thyme ice cream, which I tried and which was delicious! But I drank a

lemonade, met Bill McKenna to give him back the hat and book he left

in Gabe's room, and drew an older lady sitting near me until she left. I

only had her nose drawn, so I improvised most of it, and sat there

crosshatching for a while, until a little girl and her mom asked me if I

did that for a living. It was pretty cute, the little girl said she liked to

draw, and her dad did watercolors. The woman had spent the rest of her

time there fawning over the breakfast menu, especially the warm bread

pudding, which made me think of Brooke.

After that I went home and had a pretty great time, relatively unprod-

uctively, Gabe threw a party on Friday night, which I went to, drank at,

and got thoroughly nauseous as the lounge got messed up and the guests

got beat up by Matt Garcia. By two or three, or four, I was ready to puke,

but didn't and tried to sleep it off.

part 2

Woke up still queasy. It took me a record amount of time to walk down to

the shower, and walking outside in the blazing sun was a little more than I

could handle. I went to get breakfast hoping to settle my stomach, but the

sweet smell of abp made me want to ralph, and I spat out the first bit of my

sandwich for the same reason. After a few hours I would only get dizzy

after running up the stairs or leaning over, and by 6 pm, I was ready to start

my day.

Riders up

6 pm was also the beginning of the Belmont Stakes, where Big Brown was

the surefire winner, and potential winner of the Triple Crown, which

apparently hasn't been won in 4 decades. Big Brown looked fine, and held

a steady 3rd place until a few furlongs short of the finish, but then he

dropped back and back and back, finishing last, at a trot. Apparently he

couldn't take the weather. But hey, it's pretty unbearable here too.

So I went to JP Licks to cool off and draw, I got this mojito sorbet with

seltzer thing, but the girl had never made one before so I had a whole

pint of sorbet in mine, totally overkill, but great. I sat outside and

listened to some guys chatting about hitting on girls and going dancing,

and behind me was a motorcycle gang and a bunch of the biker-women

eating ice cream in belly shirts. The gang all got on their bikes (with

their respective (maybe) women) during a red light and sat their revving

for about 45 seconds. Meanwhile, I drew a lovely old lady sitting inside

Starbuck's, watching her through the window.

post 24

I went out to dinner with John, because the probation was over, and too hung over all day to drink, spent my night on the Annex roof watching people drink and play music and talking about growing cucumbers in a city. Terrence, who is the only other person from my high school to go here, was there, and was starting to grow vegetables on the roof in a fishtank with no drainage. John went off about acid rain, Terrence went off about New York City, John went off about starting an off-season cucumber delivery service, I recommended he outsource to Oregon, but I think there was someone there with a barn in Oregon so that might have made sense. When I went to sleep, John stayed up researching submarines that can jump like dolphins .