Law school exams are sort of like that space between comfortably drunk and black out drunk. Okay, that’s kind of a big range, but you know that phase that starts when everything goes numb and the room spins a little. That phase when that booze-fueled fog that’s making bad decisions for you clears for a [...]
Entries from April 30th, 2009
this is taxing
April 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · general stuff
In T minus too few hours, I’ll be going Chernobyl on a tax exam. Or more accurately, I will be attempting to survive the nuclear winter that will be my tax law exam. I’m in good company, at least. Misery, a common theme this time of year, still manages to make itself useful by forging [...]
train wreck
April 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · general stuff
Just a warning: this blog will becoming increasingly…boring…for the next few weeks. At least in the cycling department [which is the whole point of this blog, right?], due to finals. However, it might be mildly entertaining in that can’t-not-look-at-that-train-wreck kind of way. In moments of clarity and sanity, even I’m amazed at what finals can [...]
drowning in embrocation
April 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · reviews, things in print
My Mom has this tendency to flip through clothes with a dismissive, almost violent hand. Hangers squeak loudly against poles as she’ll cast aside suits, shirts, and pants, unable to find that perfect, impeccably tailored, designer whatever. Meanwhile I try not to completely lose it as the product of someone’s hard labor is violently shoved [...]
Tags:bicycles·cyclocross·embrocation cycling journal·talent·things in print·velodramatic
fearless
April 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · general stuff
Last summer, I encountered my first pack of roadies. Plodding home from work, mostly zoned out, a male voice behind my ear called out: “On your left.” As those words hit my brain, I instantly found myself floating in a sea of matching spandex. Six or seven cyclists drew up alongside me before passing by [...]
work + play
April 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · general stuff, new bike day
There seem to be two kinds of law students here: those that share their personal lives with each other and make normal friends, and those that keep work and play distinct. I clearly fall within the latter. In the past two years, I’ve perfected the art of putting off social events until it starts to [...]
marco…!
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · bike polo, general stuff, hanging out
Cruising home last Sunday on the new track bike, a tall, lanky boy caught my eye. Brown tussled hair, dressed in black, and features that can curl up into a super cute smile. Added plus? He was loaded with polo mallets. I shouted out his name and gave a wave before turning onto Harvard Ave. [...]
puff, puff, [or] pass
April 22nd, 2009 · 10 Comments · general stuff
Section 280E of the Federal Income Tax Code says that drug dealers can’t deduct any expenses related to the drug trade from their tax returns. Well, that doesn’t apply to the cost of the drugs though, you get to sort of make back that investment. It was almost painful reading that on Monday. Monday. Marathon [...]
beer.cupcake.mustache [the party]
April 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · hanging out
I got up this morning and made a beeline for the bathroom. Nearly tripping over the rollers in the hallway, I wondered why 1. I had to pee so badly, and 2. why there were clothes strewn all over my floor. Oh, yeah. Beer. Cupcake. Mustache. Well, the party, I mean. The book itself, created [...]
Tags:beer.cupcake.mustache·chimay·cyclocross·pedal power photography·rain·washington square tavern
best of boston
April 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · fixing stuff, hanging out
Attempting to organize the hundreds of pictures I’ve apparently taken in the past year of all things bike, I realized that this time last year, I hardly knew anything about bikes. It’s weird…has it really only been a year? The tractorino’s official [Boston] birthday is January 7, 2008. Before that, the last bike I rode [...]
Tags:best mechanic·boston·brake·cambridge bicycle·chain·fail·mohawks