Author: cheerfulchaotic

Had my longest ride ever in CA. Both days of the ms bike ride I did a year and a half ago were individually longer, but they involved much more gradual elevation change, and waystations where people fed me. =) I think the total mileage for today was about 50 miles. I am sore, hungry, and tired. Tired may take precedence.

If you remember my All Saints Day bike ride, I basically did a repeat of that, adding in the three bears, a 20ish mile loop around two large reservoirs in the east bay, going over three hills called mama bear, papa bear, and baby bear. I took the route the opposite way the website talks about taking it (the same way I took it with and Dave-the-medic.)

I took some pictures, which I will share with you all later. I think I’m going to nap now.

Just a point, what was our justification for going into Iraq. Was it “Sadaam is a bad, bad man” or “Sadaam is a bad, bad man with weapons of mass destruction”? If there are no weapons, the son of a bitch still lied to the country. If there were weapons (of course, there weren’t), why are we safer now that we caught the bad, bad, man, and have no fucking idea where the potentially lethal agents are. C’mon, people, revisionist history is beneath you, it’s beneath all of us.

But what a perfect occasion for bush to sneak a little more civil liberties violating power into the executive branch. Right as his approval ratings are guaranteed to soar. God I need to emigrate.

http://www.sacurrent.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10705756&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=482778&rfi=6

Mooooo!

is gonna wanna kill me when he sees his friends page.

Speaking of , and speaking of things I wasn’t sure if I’d ever do, on wed before I left berkeley, I said that if he wanted to he could dye my hair. Basically, I started off saying I thought it was time for me to shave my head again (and a hush fell over the table). Then Aaron suggested that if I was going to shave it anyway, why didn’t I dye it first. So I basically agreed to let him if he really wanted to. I even agreed to keep it around for at least 24 hours. =) Pictures will most likely be taken and posted to the web, because that’s the kind of dork I am. =)

I lost weight, to the tune of 2 or 3 pounds while in Austin. Okay, so I carried heavy bags around a bit. I carried bladed to, and carried heavy bits from the walmart 1-2 miles away. I bladed around ‘s pod a bit. And I walked I don’t know how many miles around downtown Austin. Still, I doubt this is more than a usual week’s physical activity for me. I think the major difference was eating less. Like, not eating excessively.

I also did 961 calories worth of elliptical cross-trainer this morning (I did an hour at difficulty 12/20), plus the bike to and from. On the other hand, I’ve had 2 clif bars one protein shake, and a huge meal, courtesy food not bombs today. I will get back to a thirty inch waist, and I’m not fucking starving myself to do it, dammit.

But, I think I have to find a way to market my plan. I think I will call it “The Vegan in Austin” diet. =) (I have no idea how is not dead. =)

I have a passport! Time for a Las Vegas style wedding in Germany. =)

Also we have something from the department of homeland insecurity immigration division addressed to an individual with a latin sounding name. This is the first piece of mail I’ve seen addressed to her. Hmmmm.

Thank you to the charming gentleman who set me up with the paid account, you know who you are.

*mwah*

(honorable mention to those who were beat to it)

*hugs*

I miss the paid membership. I was thinking about how livejournal makes by far the best way to meet someone online. You get to see how they present themselves to the world. It’s not a short term marketing pitch for something specific, it’s how they are. You can see them over time and gradually get to know them. It still has many of the hideous limitations that being online usually does, of course, but there’s a breadth of contact here you just won’t get in the real world, not on a daily basis. Sadly, without a paid membership, I can’t search the berkeley area or check out my friends of friends listing, etc. Ah well, I’ll get around to it sooner or later, most likely. =)

Grrr, third freaking time a university’s website has crashed this browser. Want to disable flash. Everywhere.

So, I was looking at cornell’s urban planning school because I heard it was pretty cool and had a policy focus. My application essay writing process for the Goldman school convinced me that urban planning is overspecialized for where I am at this point in my life though. So, I hiked on over to their policy program’s website, and checked it out. Turns out it’s in the school of “Human Ecology”. I really like that name/idea. They also have a “life cycle development” program, which looked pretty cool, if overly individual in focus, and insufficiently analytical for my taste.

Best city ever…