bike pysched!

new old bike! hip hip horray!

Chairs in the Yard

Harvard has these funky chairs of various colors and back settings.  They're a fun time, and on a not-so-cool fall afternoon prompted a lot of people to hang out in the yard.  Even a banjo player...

Bikety Bike!

This weeks bike class is all about bike culture and bike identity. It's funny to think about how each cultural group identifies itself, and how individuals identify with a specific group (or multiple groups).

I just read an article social identity--products as social identifiers, and the salience of a represented identity indicated by frequency (meaning-if you're a full-time student, and work 10 hours a week, you would call yourself a student, not a worker).

Although it was fun to read this in a scientific-y format, some work of sociology and psychology is silly to me because they take concepts that are seemingly common knowledge and make them into theories. I'm just saying, obviously people who identify themselves with a certain group will buy into products related to that group, and so on.

We won tickets! too bad I was in Chicago...
Megz sad it was fun though!

Wait Wait PLEASE TELL ME

Of all the things to miss the WHEEL taping for, I guess Wait Wait is a good choice...and I'll be in Chicago so that is also a double plus plus! However my attempts to figure out who will be the guest/on the panel this week have been thwarted. I guess it's TBD till you get there.
This also leads me to believe that Wait Wait probably has no idea who will guest star/ be on the panel until a few minutes before the show when some funny/half famous people happen to show up at the Chase Auditorium. An NPR clusterfuck, and that is fine by me, really.

But I am still a little bitter that I'll be missing Pat and Vanna, and yelling garishly at any contestants that buy vowels.

The Cheese Stands Alone

Graffiti in Allston! It's a funny thing to see next to all the other artwork on the brick in Allston.

Enneagram Test

I am equally type 5 and type 2--The Investigator and The Helper.

http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/type5.php

http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/type2.php

New way to commute to work

thunder and lightening gets you rain

Rock on Maine!

This kind of thing makes me feel happy to vote for my... [moderate-republican -but-still-bipartisan] maine Senators!

...aber Heute Nachte, putzte ich meinen Schrank

meinem?

Tonight, I'm cleaning out my closet.

I don't feel much lighter, but there is quite a load to be carried away.

And it's a step in the right direction on the road to organization.

bGOCK!

Falling fish shatters Ohio driver's windshield

Stupid sheriffs arrest many Moors

Thou dost protest too much: A tale told by an idiot

Nerdcitement!

This is a great current events article for my upcoming class. I'm not an extreme bicyclist, but I have hit my share of cars! It's not hard to do when you're sharing the lane with traffic.

Leave your conscience at the tone!

Two Things:Amazing! RENT couldn't have been better, even with the entire original cast!!
More interesting is the fact that Cyberland/Over the Moon was probably one of my highlights of the show. I also don't think this is the Joanne I saw. And I'm in love with Mark/Anthony.

not to be confused with Marc Anthony


Neko is coming to Maine!
TWIST? It is exactly one day from being convenient. such is life, but we'll see how life can play out!

ultramarathon man

Not only was it required reading, it was required FOR FIELD HOCKEY. It was the stupidest thing I had ever heard......until I read it.

The ultramarathon man is the most conceited, self important person ever to eat a cheesecake. The only thing he has going for him? he's greek. But what I did like about the book is that he made me want to run long distances! and now I'm trying to make time for it. yay!

I'm not talking ultra marathons, but...more than the average mileage.

Readyyyy go!

brighton center: cleveland of the east?

I can't believe that not one mile down the road could be such an alternate universe! Polite people, happy children, happy bartenders with great irish accents, laughing packie cashiers. Maybe it was the weather, or maybe it's the water...but either way, it was a breath of happy and fresh air!

too late for the market though...maybe next weekend.

we love our lovin. but not like we love our freedom.

So there are some things I want to do after I get a job (besides having a job), mostly superficial things of course. This list will continue to grow, as I promise myself more and more, and as I remember other things I already promised myself but can't remember at this moment!

-Sephora with Megz for a here's-how-real-people-use-makeup session
-buy a road bike? or at least the new treads for the bike I have!


Today at work, I was asked about the appeal of the Jonas Brothers, to which I said I have know idea, I'm not a preteen girl (nor was I ever really in the sense of boybands), and somehow the conversation made its way to Woodstock, Joni Mitchell, The Who, Arlo Guthrie etc etc. Thank god for my Dad's music education on Alice's Restaurant, the Motorcycle Song, and other pieces of useless music knowledge from my childhood!!

In other musics, Garfunkel and Oates is hilarious, and I need to remember to check back on them from time to time.

Brandi Carlile's new album isn't coming out until the summer or fall so I might die.

And "Rainy Night House" and "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" are playing nonstop on my ipod. again. I can't help it!


One more thought, The next apartment should not be so close (rephrase-NEXT TO) a parking lot where people illegally park and get towed at 11pm. I know I'm not sleeping right now, but I wouldn't be able to even if I tried!!