bintou spends six dollars

this evening (beautiful, sunny, 72) after my walk home from 30th street station, i dropped my stuff off at home and changed into a comfy pair of jeans and a tshirt plus scarf. as i set off on my non-specific adventure, i discovered $6 in my pocket. this, i decided, would be my capital for the evening. i just got home a few minutes ago and here is what i have acquired since i left around 7:

1. a fresh head of lettuce from the farmers market
2. a beautiful onion with long green stems (its probably a special kind of onion but i dont know what its called), also from the farmers market
3. a bag of really yummy granola (hand made, farmers market)
4. a lunch-size container with tasssssty vegetable curry (leftovers from the dinner i made with amy) - also containing a zucchini i got at the farmers market
   
5. a beautiful, rusty, skinny green roadbike (!) - acquired from the wonderful mirah and jack and their interesting landlord who no longer wanted it. the name of the bike will be revealed once im finished fixing him up (tubes, gears, chain, lock)
   
6. the song 'down by the river' stuck in my head from 2 cute neighbors having band practice on their front porch
7. a new liberian friend who speaks bambara and works at an african record store (no, he didnt physically come home with me)
8. a flyer that i'm probably going to throw away (ok, its a stretch)
   

not bad for six bucks huh?

oh also, the coolest thing happened when i got home. me and bike were just about to walk in the door when we noticed a group of people standing around outside the pinball arcade. i thought it was a fight at first, but then i realized it was just a bunch of guys that were having a freestyling battle. man they were amazing. it was like being at a really good slam at the nuyorican only it was on the streets and they were like, in each others faces. at first it was just 2 guys going back and forth and then a few other guys got into it it was basically just a gangsta rap battle (to quote flight of the conchords).

so that was my day after 7. minus all the details of what i did to aquire all those things. philadelphia is a pretty exciting place to be if you dont know anyone (actually, i have 5 friends! not even including the people i live with!). this saturday is the longest day of the year and i plan on using every minute of daylight in some really fun way. hopefully bike will be ready to go.