I biked to school today in a patch of blue sky that was mine all mine. Downtown was all cloudy when I left, and I debated just riding the train all the way out to school, especially since I (raced and) caught a Hillsboro train. But autumn is definitely here, I skipped the gym last night to keep working, and my bike hasn't seen a whole lotta lovin ( Read more... )

bye bye Portland, hello Baltimore.

I've moved to Baltimore for an 8-week summer workshop, which is highly likely to be a ton of work but hopefully rewarding as well. Arrived yesterday and was productive in terms of unpacking, grocery shopping, & setting up my internet (hey, I have my priorities!!), but unproductive in terms of working, which for ( Read more... )

I raced the train this morning on my bike, and totally beat it to the stop. Yeah baby. :) Endorphins > caffeine!

This morning as I was getting ready I had a couple of awesome insights about how to design the research for my dissertation. And, now at school 2 hours later, I still mostly remember those insights. That never happens! I'm soooo thrilled ( Read more... )

oh my God it is freaking beautiful out there today. So beautiful that I decided I could brave the cold frosty weather and bike in from Sunset. It was soooo sunny the whole ride! I was grinning like an idiot until my teeth felt frozen. :D And the Walkie Man was with me today, so I barely waited at any lights for the entire first half of the trip ( Read more... )

holy shit I just nearly died.

okay, 'die' is an overstatement. how about, I just nearly smeared half my skin across the pavement at Burnside.

God that was terrifying.

So I'm biking to the gym, and kind of frustrated because I kept missing all the lights and I'm already running late. Up ahead of me is a large intersection (both busy and very wide ( Read more... )

God must want me to ride my bike... I missed my train this morning by mere seconds, and figured out that I'd have to wait 10+ minutes for the next blue Hillsboro train. But a red train was coming in 1 minute, so I hopped on that, jumped off at Sunset, and rode in to school again ( Read more... )

I play a little bit with skiing backwards -- or Swiss skiing, which Celia informs me is the proper term. Mostly just on the gentle slopes that I have to go over to get to the fun runs. Celia was teaching me that it's a good strategy to, when you're looking back over your shoulder to see where you're going, be consistent about which shoulder you ( Read more... )

I guess I haven't exercised in a bit longer than I'd thought -- my heart was really pounding by the end of my bike ride today. totally worth it, though -- I made it from Sunset TC to school. yeah baby ( Read more... )

• Chicken. I'm such a chicken. This morning, because I was impatient to get to school, I got on a Merlo Rd/158th Ave MAX train, which ends about 50 blocks east of my usual MAX stop -- Quatama/205th. I thought I might be brave enough to read the map & bike the rest of the way to school ... but I wasn't. My rationale was that it's super foggy out, but ( Read more... )