mechanics.
i'm taking a bike repair class right now through yellow bike, a nonprofit community bike project in austin, and i love it. once you've spent 12 hours volunteering with them (and the 12 hour class counts) you get to build your own bike from all their parts and bikes. dena wants me to build her a bike and i really want to build myself a road bike. maybe i'll volunteer another 12 hours and build them both. plus, i have my sister's crappy walmart mountain bike in the garage and i think i may take it home over xmas break and deconstruct and rebuild it in my dad's shop and maybe with my dad's help. it'd be awesome to teach him about how something works rather than the other way around, for once. plus, the last time i did that-- we moved a motherboard from one laptop to another-- he got me a badass set of tools.
when i was in high school and college, i was interested in the sort of stuff he did but i felt like there was such a huge learning curve and i was so far behind it that i would never catch up. i already knew i liked dissecting once-living things but it wasn't until i dissected fruit fly larvae day in and day out that i realized just how much i loved it. and now i dissect computers all the time and soon i will be dissecting bikes, too. i guess what i am trying to say is i always kinda wondered if maybe i didn't live up to my dad's expectations or hopes because i never seemed mechanically inclined like he was. and now, in my own way, i am proving myself to be so after all. i dunno...why do i need to be as good as he is at taking stuff apart and putting it back together? maybe i don't need to be as good-- just show that i have at least some aptitude.
i've been sick for a week now, really sick, and i'm miserable. i think i need thanksgiving break more than ever before. i plan on working on med school secondaries mostly. but, the time to just be- i need it. as expensive as applying to med school is, i don't think i can afford to quit my second job during next semester but i would sure like to. it'd be nice to work 40 hours and come home. i'd have more time to do things i wanna do-- like work on bikes, like ride my bike, like ride my bike sometime when it's not dark, like volunteer. i had planned on having all my secondary applications done well ahead of time-- but i just get so worn out from working 12 hours a day 5 days a week. and next semester i have to take classes again, 4 nights a week. i'm SUPER excited about that, lemme tell ya.
what i'd really like to do this summer, after i've spent a fair bit of the spring repairing bikes with yellow bike, is move on to a car. i'd love to rebuild an engine. that's be an awesome way to spend the summer, not quite as cool as riding my bike cross country but right now i don't think the g/f will let me do that. anyway, yeah, i wanna spend the summer working on a car.
alright, i have been ordered to take benadryl and go take a nap.
i need to write more often.
when i was in high school and college, i was interested in the sort of stuff he did but i felt like there was such a huge learning curve and i was so far behind it that i would never catch up. i already knew i liked dissecting once-living things but it wasn't until i dissected fruit fly larvae day in and day out that i realized just how much i loved it. and now i dissect computers all the time and soon i will be dissecting bikes, too. i guess what i am trying to say is i always kinda wondered if maybe i didn't live up to my dad's expectations or hopes because i never seemed mechanically inclined like he was. and now, in my own way, i am proving myself to be so after all. i dunno...why do i need to be as good as he is at taking stuff apart and putting it back together? maybe i don't need to be as good-- just show that i have at least some aptitude.
i've been sick for a week now, really sick, and i'm miserable. i think i need thanksgiving break more than ever before. i plan on working on med school secondaries mostly. but, the time to just be- i need it. as expensive as applying to med school is, i don't think i can afford to quit my second job during next semester but i would sure like to. it'd be nice to work 40 hours and come home. i'd have more time to do things i wanna do-- like work on bikes, like ride my bike, like ride my bike sometime when it's not dark, like volunteer. i had planned on having all my secondary applications done well ahead of time-- but i just get so worn out from working 12 hours a day 5 days a week. and next semester i have to take classes again, 4 nights a week. i'm SUPER excited about that, lemme tell ya.
what i'd really like to do this summer, after i've spent a fair bit of the spring repairing bikes with yellow bike, is move on to a car. i'd love to rebuild an engine. that's be an awesome way to spend the summer, not quite as cool as riding my bike cross country but right now i don't think the g/f will let me do that. anyway, yeah, i wanna spend the summer working on a car.
alright, i have been ordered to take benadryl and go take a nap.
i need to write more often.