a more relaxed weekday. i'd say 15% relaxed. a nice rewind from a few weeks of craziness.

i walked on third street for a little bit to catch dinner. i saw a pair of college students on a date. several groups of asian tourists. a disheveled looking man tuning a guitar with his voice.

mom and i talked the other day about how third st. is a tourist spot. sometimes i can step back visually and see a place, any place that i'm familiar with, through the eyes of a visitor. like how i first stood paralyzed under the shooting cn tower or wandered mindlessly through chinatowns of various cities. (san francisco, seattle, vancouver, toronto, d.c., chicago) (i like chinatowns.) third street looked like that to me today and it's interesting. i transfer buses one street up from it and if i stay there, i'm still in the drowsy school mode. it slowly passes as i wade into the crowds of the promenade. i remember times where i had enough flexible time to catch more than a snack at famima and go down to ocean avenue and just soak up the pacific on that salty white railing as if i were seeing the ocean for the first time.