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cblj_backupI used to be quite an avid cyclist, especially in high school. In college and at grad school I rode mostly for transportation, but after I moved to Chicago I didn't have a bike for a while and I got out of the habit. I've had a bike for about a year now, brought up from home by my folks the last time they visited, but I've been a lazy asshole about getting air in the tires and I live on the third floor, so carrying it up and down is a pain.
Still, I've made a list of "Things I am ashamed I haven't done" and top of the list was "fix up the bike", so today I took it out, pumped up the tires, checked the gears to make sure everything was running smoothly, and took it out for a ride.
OH MY QUADRICEPS.
I can't really say I recommend making any kind of list that has to do with shame, because shame is terrible, but I realized I was feeling it about a lot of things in my life, or more specifically in my apartment, so I made this list and frankly I feel better now. It's not stuff like "I've never skydived" or anything, it's stuff like "I need to frame this poster" (which will have to wait until I can save up for some frames, so that one's on hold).
So I had to get the bike out of the way (it's now locked up in the bike parking in the basement) in order to get to the next thing on the list. I have a gorgeous faux-antique stereo that has a turntable, tape player, and radio, and I never use it because I couldn't GET TO IT since it was behind the bike. I have a rather small apartment.
Anyway, I can now access the stereo, so I am writing this to the strains of a Tchaikovsky casette tape that I have had since I was five or six -- it was my favourite tape as a child and Tchaikovsky remains the only classical composer I really have any passion about. And I have changed "unearth the stereo" to "find some cheap records for the turntable".
After that, I need to find R and make him drive me to The Brown Elephant (a local thrift store that supports LGBT health centers in Chicago) to give them these four huge boxes of charity stuff that have been in my kitchen for two years.
Bein' a grownup, la la la, gettin' things done, doo doo doo...
Still, I've made a list of "Things I am ashamed I haven't done" and top of the list was "fix up the bike", so today I took it out, pumped up the tires, checked the gears to make sure everything was running smoothly, and took it out for a ride.
OH MY QUADRICEPS.
I can't really say I recommend making any kind of list that has to do with shame, because shame is terrible, but I realized I was feeling it about a lot of things in my life, or more specifically in my apartment, so I made this list and frankly I feel better now. It's not stuff like "I've never skydived" or anything, it's stuff like "I need to frame this poster" (which will have to wait until I can save up for some frames, so that one's on hold).
So I had to get the bike out of the way (it's now locked up in the bike parking in the basement) in order to get to the next thing on the list. I have a gorgeous faux-antique stereo that has a turntable, tape player, and radio, and I never use it because I couldn't GET TO IT since it was behind the bike. I have a rather small apartment.
Anyway, I can now access the stereo, so I am writing this to the strains of a Tchaikovsky casette tape that I have had since I was five or six -- it was my favourite tape as a child and Tchaikovsky remains the only classical composer I really have any passion about. And I have changed "unearth the stereo" to "find some cheap records for the turntable".
After that, I need to find R and make him drive me to The Brown Elephant (a local thrift store that supports LGBT health centers in Chicago) to give them these four huge boxes of charity stuff that have been in my kitchen for two years.
Bein' a grownup, la la la, gettin' things done, doo doo doo...
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Date: 2012-07-08 09:09 pm (UTC)Quick thing for RFM: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enterthehaggis/enter-the-haggis-the-modest-revolution
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Date: 2012-07-09 01:11 pm (UTC)It wasn't even a long ride, half an hour at most on flat ground. Though the derailleur was sticking a little so I did do like half of it in a hard-pedal gear.
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Date: 2012-07-08 09:43 pm (UTC)You need to get a Cole Porter record for your turntable and watch Midnight in Paris, though which order you decide to do these things is up to you. :)
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Date: 2012-07-09 01:11 pm (UTC)I would love to get some Cole Porter...
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Date: 2012-07-08 10:38 pm (UTC)And yeah, my bike has been chained on my balcony for... three years now? With a flat tire, and also I need a light for it so I can ride in the dark.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:33 pm (UTC)I do however have three stubborn boxes that I cannot get round to unpacking. Oh well. I keep the cupboard door shut...
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Date: 2012-07-09 07:41 pm (UTC)And all those toys acquired by a small person -_-
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Date: 2012-07-10 02:01 pm (UTC)(This one I ended up prepping some paperwork at work while listening. I suspect I may have missed some things but it was still quite entertaining!)
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Date: 2012-07-10 02:08 pm (UTC)I can recommend the lady who talks about how food has shaped our cities (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/carolyn_steel_how_food_shapes_our_cities.html) (London specifically) and the dude with the cheating elephant who talks about moral behaviors in animals (http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals.html).
It's really a good thing the library computer doesn't have flash or I'd be watching that instead of writing..