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Entries from May 31st, 2009

fabricated crises

May 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments · cambridge bicycle, drop offs, handmade goodies, hats

1.57am. That’s when I finished. Not like that’s unusually late these days. Between rides, blogs, and scheming, late nights are becoming part of the whole routine. A dizzying one that has me nearly falling asleep as I brush my teeth and having small fits of existential crises over gchat. All while some part of me [...]

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[imaginary] friends

May 30th, 2009 · No Comments · road rides, training

One reason I tend to ride alone is the blissful ignorance of how fast I am not going. No fancy cycloputer on my handlebars, no stop watch, just a cell phone and a mental note of when I roll out. Of course, when you ride with friends with gears, everything sort of changes. Not in [...]

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slipshod

May 29th, 2009 · No Comments · style, training

Dress up. Dress down. Change shoes. About three times a day. Another summer working in Boston. I love shoes, but this is getting to be a little too much. It feels like I consistently have three pairs of shoes on me that I’m actually wearing. Needless to say, my outfits are changing, too, almost a [...]

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disaster zone

May 28th, 2009 · No Comments · customizing stuff, handmade goodies

Imagine newspapers, fabric, bottles of screening ink, plastic tubs of cottage cheese [for mixing ink], and tailor’s chalk strewn around the floor, cardboard boxes spewing out fabric with a track bike wedged into a corner and you have an idea of what my room currently looks like. Needless to say, it’s a mess [no, I'm [...]

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operation

May 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · fixing stuff, style

When I was little, it seemed like every household except mine had that game. I loved it though [who didn't?]. I remember seeing a friend with the game in college, and attempting to pick out the plastic pieces for the first time in over 10 years. Even sober, it was hard, and after about 12 [...]

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oral fixation

May 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · food, road rides, training

Yesterday, I almost couldn’t wait to dump my face into food after a mere 30 miles. And I did. Because I took a friend, Matt, on my recently discovered 40 mile route. We met early to throw down a few miles; he on a geared bike, kitted out, and looking every part the serious roadie [...]

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farmer's tans

May 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments · bike shops, cambridge bicycle, food

“Nice tan you got going on there,” Chris said as I casually walked into the mechanic’s floor of IBC. I knew the tank top was a mistake. You can clearly see how pale my shoulders are in comparison to my arms, and then that arm tan gets cut off into the glove tan around my [...]

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a satisfied itch

May 24th, 2009 · No Comments · road rides, training

Face flushed, dizzy with that mixture of satisfaction and exhaustion, I finally broke my dry spell yesterday. And what a satiating way to do it. Biting my lip between panting and gasping for air, goosebumps were shooting up my neck. Even with a cramped up shoulder, there was no way I was going to stop. [...]

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impatient voyages

May 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · bike shops, hanging out, new bike day

Remember the “ipod nod”? Back when only a select few had ipods and they were far from touch screen? And those white earbuds would qualify you for that so-geeky-it’s-chic, sage nod from another ipod owner? That secret, shared understanding of owning something…superior? I like how that died within a year as ipods and Apple just [...]

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hump de bump

May 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · bike shops, cambridge bicycle, hanging out

I have 1.5 Boston winters under my commuting belt [I got my Bianchi in January 2008]. It doesn’t make me any more hardcore, or special, than any other cyclist. But it’s something I’m secretly proud of. It’s also the reason I think Bicycle Commuter Appreciation Day should be in the middle of February, not in [...]

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