Thanks, java!

If there are Sunday dinner plans, could you let me know? That week is going to be hard, because the summer associates are just starting, but Sunday evening might work.

I've booked the Carl Hotel

Yay! Less swanky than the Stanyan Park, but also less pricey, and walking distance from a ton of stuff; you'll have a Muni stop to whisk you away to downtown right on the corner, and you'll be walking distance from not only Chez Zmayhem but numerous yummy eateries, good bars, dreamy coffeehouses, and Haight Street (far enough that the funkier denizens thereof won't be hanging around the hotel creeping you out, but near enough to hit the bookstore, the thrift and vintage clothing stores, the taxidermied oddities store, the corsets and fascinators shop, and various other purveyors of baubles and trinkets and kinky fridge magnets and other items of general Buffista interest).

I had a sudden, horrible thought that perhaps the Carl Hotel - due to its cheap rates and no elevator - did not have private baths. I checked and, so glad! - they do.

did not have private baths.

Awww, we would've hosed you down in the back yard if you got stanky, Todd. That's the kind of hospitality we can extend.

I was imagining shared bathrooms, down the hall.

I was imagining shared bathrooms, down the hall.

See, now, that would be ghastly. But hosed off in the back yard would be frolicsome.

Define "frolicsome". And do you HAVE a back yard?

I was imagining shared bathrooms, down the hall.

I've stayed in some cheap-ass motels on family vacations, and aside from actual youth hostels or B&Bs I've never run into that.

I have travel anxiety, what can I say. I often imagine the worst. However, once I'm on a plane, I'm fine.