Today I went to Chinatown in San Francisco all by myself. Had to do it for a city planning paper. Had to be able to get enough info solely through observation to write about the history, present, and future of the neighborhood we were assigned. It really ended up being a lot of fun. Never been to the city alone before. Sorta nice to go wherever I wanted to go, see whatever I wanted to see. Went on the cable cars (twice), sat in Union Square, Portsmouth Square, visited a church built in 1854, stopped in random places and took notes and sketched like crazy. Chinatown is a really interesting community, very vibrant, with buckets full of history, cool architecture, interesting people, parks, streets, alleyways. I love that type of stuff. I felt like I was a world away from Berkeley and classes and studio (grrrrr). Studio sucks this semester...more on that later.