Completion

When you are facing a mountain of work, here is what you do:
1. Stop for a breath.
2. Quickly prioritize what you have to do.
3. Chip away at the important stuff first.


Now to follow my own advice.

San Franciscans Smell

I was in San Francisco last week.  It is a beautiful place.  Beautiful scenery.  Gorgeous architecture.  Yummy restaurants.  But the thing that struck me the most was another sense: smell.  People of the Golden Gate, you smell! 

Now before you get a big hate on for me, let me explain.  First, you don't necessarily smell bad.  You just smell in a greater magnitude than I am used to.  I was walking down the street and I was surprised at the smells: colognes, perfumes, hair products, pot, cigars, garlic, coffee.  It is not just confined to younger people either.  I was in a restaurant, and I got a big waft of perfume.  I thought it was from the waitress standing behind me, but when she left, the halo stayed.  It was the octogenarian woman in the next booth.  She was lucky there was no open flame around. 

I've been to a lot of cities.  Why does SF seem to smell more?  Have I just become desensitized in my own city?  Is it just that Spring was in the air?  We get a lot of rain where I live; are people just rinsed more?  Have we become so PC that smell is another one of our personal liberties we are quick to give up?  Maybe it is just that I fell in love with San Francisco and that my senses were aroused (the same way I can still smell the hair of the girl who used to sit in front of me in grade 1). 

I'll definitely go back to San Francisco.  The pics and vids I took can't do the smells justice.  Maybe by the next time I go, there will be smellovision.