Critical Mass was SO just what I needed. During the school year, I take being surrounded by radical people who like having fun for granted. I hadn't really been around those kind of people in over a month, and that's why everything was getting to me so much. But the Mass was full of people just being excited about biking together. I felt the ( Read more... )

Reading week isn't going to be much of a break for me--I've got all kinds of stuff going on (film shooting and editing, volunteering, catching up on errands I've been ignoring--I lost my cell phone in November and still haven't replaced it) plus enough homework to fill the whole week if I just studied for 8 hours a day, 7 days straight. But I'm ( Read more... )

Okay, this weather is more like it. Cool, but not cold, just enough rain to make you need a rainjacket if you are going outdoors for long periods of time but not rain pants or boots. No wind. No snow. No slush. No thin covering of ice on the ground that makes me fall off my bike, twice, just because I wanted to make a right turn ( Read more... )

I'm getting one of those painful, fluid-filled zits on the edge of my lower lip, the kind I always need to touch my tongue to 200 times a day, and will eventually get infected (because I popped it and then touched my tongue to it 200 times) and look like a cold sore. So that's something to look forward to ( Read more... )

I feel deliciously melancholy today. It was cloudy and windy like fall, for the first time in months, and I forgot how different the city looks in this light. I like the sun, but this is almsost nicer; the dirt doesn't show as much. Today I remembered why I only bike half as much in the winter, how thick the wind can be, how much I like listening ( Read more... )

Some entries should be in point form, this one shouldn't, but I'm too tired to make the paragraphs flow together ( Read more... )

Tonight I went to see a preview showing of this:


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I think people really appreciated and/or disapproved of my conservative skirt/lace up knee-high boots (I call them my stompin' boots) combo as I was biking today, because I got a lot more looks than usual while I was biking. (And it was a long-ish skirt compared to others I have biked in and I was wearing bike shorts underneath, so they weren't ( Read more... )

The Sea ( Read more... )

The only thing stupider than motorists who don't respect cyclists (like the woman who ran a 4-way stop today because she was dialing her phone and probably didn't see me because I'm not in a gigantic SUV like she was) are cyclists who wear a helmet but do not do it up. Dude! Why are you wearing a helmet if you're not going to secure it to your head ( Read more... )