Danger staring you in the face

Oh yeah, here's my inspirational jam for the week.  Did you sing this song alone in your bedroom and think you were an amazing vocalist? Yeah, me too...



Those dimples, that little nose wrinkle... Motivations.


So I went to a bike expo over the weekend and didn't buy anything except beer and a veggie burger, but then I went home and planned on studying but I couldn't shake the feeling of missing something... something important.  I then went to a bike shop and spent a lot of money (though it was only $18 more than I'd budgeted to spend at the expo... about the same as the burger and beers...) and walked out with these babies

and the pedals to go with them, and a wrench for the pedals, and a litt-le bag that will fit under my seat and hold small things like keys and a wallet and a phone so I don't have to carry a backpack all the time.  Within the next few days, I will be riding my bike, attached at the feet, and it will be awesome.  Between now and then, however, a winter storm is expected to dump 7-10" of fresh snow on my fair city.


Grad school got real last week. Real real and real hard. And I'd thought that had already happened... Remember that really reading-intensive class last semester?  Yeah, well I've got three of 'em this semester and I'm not sure how I'm going to actually accomplish everything that needs accomplishing. I guess it doesn't help that I am blahgging instead of reading, huh?

It also doesn't help that, as I believe Angela pointed out, I have accidentally joined a bike gang and, resultingly, I have taken on the exciting challenge of organizing a mobile dance party ride called The Ride, Dance, Drink, Ride! Ride. If the weather is good, I'm guessing we'll get 15-20 people out on bicycles to ride around town and dance a lot, both off and on bikes. With mobile sound systems.  Am I excited? Yes.  Am I spreading myself thing? Ehhh.... yeah, probably.

But taking it easy doesn't feel as good as taking it... hard. Hrm.

Oh, and I just picked up some more hours in the computer lab, just this second, so that's, per week...
9 hours of class
12 hours of TAing
12 hours of lab monitor duty
and 30-40 hours of reading/homework if I want to be a good student and have a complete thesis proposal by the end of the semester...

The rest my time will be for the most fun stuff I can dream up (see: mobile dance party).