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Entries Tagged as 'rollers'
commute to train
January 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · training
“It’s cold out today. Or, that’s what I thought when I got in my car.” I’m met with a variation of that comment at least once a week when people see me with a bike in one hand and a helmet in the other. A friend once informed me, in the middle of that frigid [...]
the guilties
January 12th, 2010 · 4 Comments · general stuff
I have a bad case of the “guilties.” If I’m on the rollers, I’m feeling guilty that I’m not doing my reading [even if I have the whole night to do it]. If I’m cooking dinner, I’m feeling guilty that I’m not out on a ride [even if it's sub-zero temperatures out]. That familiar sinking [...]
roller girl
November 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · training
If you’ve ever seen even one scene from The Paper Chase, you have a vague sense of what it’s like to be called on in a law school class. Even as a third year, the Socratic method of drilling questions eludes me. It’s like being asked to perform a waltz with cinder blocks for shoes. [...]
Tags:fan·law school·rollers·sweaty
ugg[h] season
October 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments · general stuff, training
It’s Ugg season, again. Remember those boots that became popular in, oh, 2002? Yeah apparently, they’re still around, despite their highly unflattering, leg shortening and fattening qualities [unless you're over 5'10" and under 100lbs, of course]. Which inevitably gives rise to snarky jokes with my best friend: “Is she wearing Uggs?” “Yeah. Welcome to 2002.” [...]
how i roll
October 15th, 2009 · No Comments · general stuff, training
Back when my mother was still deluding herself into thinking I had some musical promise, she would send me to weekly piano lessons. I don’t actually remember being presented with the concept of “choice” in this decision. I was supposed to learn how to play piano. End of story. I was maybe six or seven [...]
rolling addiction
August 26th, 2009 · 4 Comments · general stuff, training
Despite a calf that’s wound up so tight my heel actually hurts, I’m pushing, thrusting, alternatively gritting my teeth and biting my lower lip. Eyes closed, head tilted back, hissing in air and letting it out in trembling exhalations. Moving my hips just a little bit to the left, a little forward…right there. Right right [...]
Tags:addict·embrocation cycling journal·pain·perfection·rollers·sweaty
lazy rain
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · general stuff, style
I don’t know what my parents were really thinking but my name is a homonym for “silkworm” in Japanese. Or maybe they weren’t really thinking. The characters are different, obviously, but it still makes for somewhat awkward introductions. Like oh, hello, my parents named me after a worm that you eventually boil in its own [...]
Tags:day off·drenched·rain·rollers·silkworm·sweaty·thunderstorms