All Around Downtown

This post is going to be less about food than about some of the things I've been enjoying about SF lately. I woke up early to go to my chiropractor's office today. I'm sure everyone's heard the jokes about how chiropractors aren't real doctors, but I love mine. I have chronic back pain from years of carrying a heavy backpack and then a large purse on my right shoulder. You know that posture: right shoulder hunched up, right pelvis thrust forward to help balance the weight. It's terrible!


I've done enough back exercises over the years that my muscles are compensating for what my spine's not doing, but I'm going to the chiropractor's regularly now to re-align my spine before I do permanent damage. I don't want to be a fifty year old hunchback!


For whatever reason, today's adjustments was unusually effective. I literally felt like I was standing up straighter and taking deeper breaths! Thus invigorated, I headed downtown for a walk.




City Hall, as seen through a grove of sycamore trees. Isn't it beautiful? It's an exact replica of the Capitol Dome, but slightly taller just to be obnoxious. There weren't any pro-Tibet protestors today. I wonder where they went? They've been at City Hall every day for the last two weeks. Maybe since Mayor Newsom finally announced the Olympic Torch route the protestors took a day off.



The Civic Center Farmers' Market. This is the city's workhorse farmers' market--the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market is the showcase market. Food, flowers, and houseplants are all relatively inexpensive here. I'm going to have to remember to save some grocery shopping for Wednesdays from now on.

I also stopped by the library and picked up a few books. I'm now officially reading all of the following:



-The Omnivore's Dilema
-A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
-The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
-A Soldier of the Great War
-Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norell



It's a big ol' list, isnt' it? I'm the kind of nutty person who's always reading either five books or no books at all. I tend to finish most books I start, but out of five I'll usually find one that is especially interesting and power through it first. Then I'll go back to the other four, or add a book, and see if I suddenly like any of them enough to read through quickly. Odd system, I know. The last two books I finished in a hurry were Freakonomics and He Knew He Was Right. I highly recommend both!