speaking of no-handed stuff (see below): here is how i am freaking awesome forever. i ride almost all the way home from work these days no-handed. i am so waycool! i've gotten so good at steering with my knees, and i can stand up too (well, i could do that last year, but nowhere near as suavely). the only time i use my hands is when i have to use ( Read more... )

it's that time again, kids, for "Bicycle Stories Until We Puke!!!" featuring: a bottom bracket asked to give its all and more for king and country (or for biking twenty miles per diem in chi-town winter), a cassette past its prime but not beyond hope, the dream of a single-speed high-gear knee-killer of a speed machine, and the derailleur that just ( Read more... )

so we sort of have a television now (um, it only took us about a year to get one...we're great people!) only we don't really have a television because we get no reception. but it has a vcr in it so we use it to watch videotapes. you know what i mean. those rectangular things from the 80s that aren't digital? and they're magnetic. so yesterday we ( Read more... )

dudezorz. sitting in bed in a sort of knockoff-egl crinoline type skirt and polkadotted tank top thing (that makes my boobs look smaller! i am going to make about ten of these things!), cutting out a stencil For God's Sake. ought i be worried i'm turning into some cheesy hipster douche? yeah, whatever. my friends probably wouldn't abandon me if ( Read more... )

so, the story of how i needed a new wheel last week. i was biking to work and the rear tire kept rubbing against the frame so i kept hopping off the bike every five minutes to adjust it. then, all of a sudden, the wheel stops turning entirely! i was about five minutes from work at this point. so i think "zut alors! get thee to a bike shoppe!" i ( Read more... )

so i work this weekend, which is pretty effing chouette because it is going to be in the seeeeeeeventies all weekend and, like, not rain. wahey for not dying of...rickets? is that the vitamin d deficiency? anyhow. my front brake has needed replacing for about a week or so now, ever since half the cable snapped. and the rear brake is probably ( Read more... )

i mean, just when a very cute little girl randomly talked to me about her cat (his favorite food is chickenandrice but if he eats it too much he gets fat and when they first got him he was hand-sized. their first one was a stray) and maybe sort of restored a shred of my faith in humanity and, like, children or whatever (probably because this came ( Read more... )

so i find it appropriate that the weather icon thingamajigs at the bottom of my screen describe the current weather as "mist". mist is german slang for "shit" (third year of language study, you always learn all the curse words). it definitely fits. as i dislike rain when i have to be out in it, especially the drizzly kind which splatters my glasses ( Read more... )

i finally bought gangster no. 1 yesterday, and i am having great fun turning the audio commentary on and off. oh god, it's so good. also, i like not watching it on television for once. ifc, so it was never as horrible as it could be, but oh man, i own this movie! i can watch it whenever i like! i think my two favorite scenes in it are one right ( Read more... )

remember how i don't understand how to form relationships with people? um, today i am practicing being maddeningly social. i am definitely going to see pirates tonight (midnight, because i am definitely THAT SORT of dork) with, like, actual people. who are my friends, i guess. but whom i called (on the telephone omgwtfbbq!!) and asked to come with ( Read more... )