euclid street

i'm more thankful now that we were able to go to the protest than even when we were there in the streets with our signs and balloons. i feel like the olympics are coming up more and more just in conversation as a matter of course with the media and all, and it's so good to be able to talk to people about it from firsthand experience. it's surprising how many people don't know about darfur and even tibet, but i feel like anything that i can share with them about it was worth the gas money. which is the whole point of having protests anyway. (whether it justifies our carbon emissions on that trip is another story :)

also, instead of calling this 'entry the thirteenth,' i'm calling it something else, for the following reason:
many cities with numbered blocks choose to skip the number 13 in the sequence of streets because it's generally considered unlucky. so instead of 13th street, the sequence will read 11th, 12th, euclid street, 14th- in honor of some man named euclid who had a lot to do with geometry. if i knew more about math i could elaborate on this, but i just don't. my roommate told me this story, and it could be totally untrue, but it sounds reasonable enough! plus, i used to live on a euclid street with my dad in buffalo, and i know there's one in berkeley, in santa monica and in anaheim, so i'm pretty convinced of it.