You’d think I’d remember not to get gas at the Millbrae exit from the 280. You go down miles of a windy road before you come out by the station. I once did the same thing, at school, when I was nearly out of gas, and I was just cruising down the hill without any prayer of finding a station. There are so many roads like that around here – windy and endless. I got stuck on the 84 going the wrong way last night, too.

Anyway, I did manage to get to SF, find parking (miraculous!) return the car to Kersti, and take the train back to Mountain View in time to have sushi with Cisco, Shiyan, and Meredith. I love that BART connects to the Millbrae Caltrain now. If that had been an option when I was in school…

No more car! Hooray! Kersti drives back to Ashland at some point today.

We adjourned to Cisco and Lax’s apt for bread pudding and some weird variation on British cookies called “tim-tams.” That evening, we read from THE GIFT OF NOTHING (a Matt and Earl comic book) and Derrida’s ON GRAMMATOLOGY. I’d never picked the thing up before. It repays the reader with great amusement. I’m going to have to get through it.

“Speaking of the hymen,” Stayner and I took the Taspers to see Gayatri Spivak (Derrida’s translator and cultural critic) at Cornell once, and we had trouble understanding the meaning of anything in her lecture. I found her introduction to be much more comprehensible because I could read over it again and again.

I have four interviews today:

Peter Van Norden (actor)
James Bundy (YSD)
Juliette Carrillo (director)
Claire Peeps (Durfee)

Getting busy.