Aaro: I picked Celina up at Anodyne where she was conversing with Oliver X. It was the first time I met him as well. I gave him an SF0 pin per Ian's request. I also gave Celina a pin. Nice to meet you, Oliver, but you were probably just as paranoid as Piratey Monkey was when meeting me. The difference was that Piratey Monkey had been drinking.

Celina and I drove to Nicollet Mall and sat down near a bus stop and chatted for a while before figuring out exactly how we were going to go about this task. We had the flowers in hand and we decided to split them up... She got all the purple ones and I got all the yellow ones. We started off well right away but Celina ended up getting turned down the first two times. :-( She came back very well and we were able to distribute all of our flowers minus the last one I let her keep. A highlight was the strange man that accepted my flowers right away but ended up wandering around slowly and pausing to then turn around to come back at us! We rushed down a different street to avoid him. We also enjoyed the cute couple with the meow cat they had around their neck. After we took their picture they wrote down their email address on the back of my BART pass that I still had in my wallet from SF so they could get a copy of the photos. I sent them the urls on my Flickr page to abide by this task's rules. We also saw an owl and I wanted to kill it.

We walked down to Ike's afterwards and had an appetizer and a bottle of wine. A great evening.

Celina: (will write more here later)
This task was difficult for me because

1. I was meeting someone for the first time and spending several hours with them and
2.I can be pretty shy and being shy for this task would not do us any good.