Had a fun lunch with the sister of a friend of mine who's in town from Davis (California) getting her son settled in to start college here.  We barely stopped talking to eat something.  A lot of talk about what life is like in Portland.  And a lot of laughs about past lives in San Francisco... how much it has changed, etc.  We all used to live in the same area of the city (Mission/Noe Valley) but at different times.  Our discussion veered to the days of doing the roommate (flat sharing) thing and the Roommate Referral Service that used to be in the Haight... now long gone, but boy how perfectly that system worked, ring binders filled with hand written forms describing what you were seeking in a roommate/house/apartment in the (ancient) pre-internet days.  Hilarious.  Actually my second discussion this week with someone about San Francisco days and roommates.  

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