- Oh bikes It’s been a little over 2 months since my bike was stolen and I’m missing it. On days like today when the sun is a perfect, my legs just want to ride up into the hills beyond the Rose Bowl and breathe. (Fact: I was made for sunny days.) The week the Trek disappeared from the […]
- Things I Do Not Like: #0512 Warning: A Little Ranty I do not like that drivers so often underestimate how fast I am going on my bike, and that their assumptions mean sometimes-scary near collisions. It is not that I am a speed-racer, but gravity does cause a road bike to go fast down hills. And sometimes that speed is needed […]
- Subpoena So I’ve been summoned to court over that whole getting-my-bike-stolen-shenanigans. I’m not sure how I count as a “witness” being as I didn’t see anything actually happen. I just happened upon a non-existent bike, and saw the remnants of my pitiful U-lock snappage. This will be my first trip to court. And I will try […]
- I Heart the Pasadena Police; or, Jesus Saves Tonight two dudes stole my nice Trek bike. This bike is my only means of transport, and did I mention that it is very nice? It is probably nicer than your mom’s car. I ride it approximately 50 miles/week to get around, and it is very enjoyable. I had locked it up near my school, […]
- Naive New Parent, I Am. My bicycle named Julius is only two weeks old, and having him makes me feel like a new parent. I’m learning how much I don’t know about the baby, and his many shiny parts. People ask me the weirdest questions. And I feel like an irresponsible mother, sometimes; call me naive. Everywhere I go (and […]
- Baby, We Named You It takes a village. Chris’ submission won me over, for the following reasons: 1. Circa 1985, I would go shopping with my Mama at the Mohawk Mall in upstate NY. On our breaks from the shopping I would try to persuade her to buy me a frozen Orange Julius. I was five. I was cute. […]
- Go Metro, Go Bike, Go Beach It is Saturday, and I want to try something new. I will brave Los Angeles’ very pitiful Metro connections to try to get from my house to the beach by bicycle and rail. My friends from Basilea in the city will meet me there. It’ll probably only take me 3.5 hours to arrive, but hey. […]
- Name my Baby Well, ok. I have thus happily purchased my new urbanite vehicle, the Trek ’08 2.1 WSD. In my quest to go car-less in Pasadena, I’m still riding in style. I went for the next model up, on account of good sales (it’s last year’s model) and all around bang for the buck. I also got […]
- This is the Day, This is the Day This is the day that I will get a new bicycle. I have entrusted kind Schwinny to a good soul, and bid him fare thee well. Today I will enter the world of road-bike goodness to improve my commute and allow me entrance into the sport of cycling. I hope to purchase the above Trek […]
- Making Like a Cylinder I have made like a cylinder and graduated. I now have a Masters from Fuller’s School of Intercultural Studies. Hooray. The walking-across-the-stage ceremony of boredom isn’t until next Saturday, but now we are trying on gowns and such. I am excited because this time around we all get to wear a blue hooded/extra-long necklace type […]
- [My Pride] Bikes to Work. Well, as I haughtily predicted, I won some raffle prize during Bike to Work week. I’m not yet sure what it is that I won, because I had to be rushing off to the coffee shop after dropping my raffle ticket in the box at the City Hall festivities. I thought I had heard my […]
- Strange birds, strings, and other things Spring Break is a strange bird when yes, you get a break from classes but no, not a break from your many occupations. I have been a bit sour over this fact, this week. But I have tried to make the best of it. The love birds are nesting above the giant iron gate at […]