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