Yesterday started off reluctantly getting out of someone else’s bed. No nookie, not much cuddling, mostly just alot of traffic noise kept me up. Drop off video, on my bike to the gym, workout, psych myself up to do some work, come out and find my rear bike tire flat. Work is about a 10 minute bike ride from the gym. More like a 40 minute walk. I take my bike over to missing link, where I find it doesn’t open for another hour and a half. (not terribly unexpected, it was before 9am & all). I am so not dragging my bike up the hill at this point. Go home, and waste the rest of the morning.
Leave the house around 2:30 in the afternoon, do some shopping for bike bits (a seat that won’t damage my sex life, a new tire, a new inner tube, no head light (doh)), and a frame-attaching tire pump. Also took my wiggly front wheel down to their shop storefront, where they tightened it up in less than 5 minutes. Spend some time in the basement fucking with my new purchases. Manage to bust a hole in the new innertube (don’t ask me how, I only noticed the hole as I was trying to pump it up. Also broke the hooky bits off of both my tire levers (post hole discovery). Patched old innertube (it had a smaller hole). Put it on with new tire. Hopefully fewer flats in my future. Went for a little spin around the block. Much better. Take my laptop apart, and add the third penny (plus duct tape). Hopefully no flexing of the screen casing will ever be required to keep the damn thing working (in preparation for upcoming travel).
Unlocked Dr Mario in Super Smash Bros Melee. Finished off event battle #30. (strangely, even after simon finished off the horde of puffballs, completing battles 1-30, we still don’t have 31-40. Ah well.
Going to albuquerque monday morning. Through thursday. We’re doing some flight simulations for the whole ranging mess. Fortunately no class on tuesday. Unfortunately, the following tuesday, I’m presenting on the economics of zoning. And I volunteered to give sort of an overview on the topic (5-10 minutes is the plan). (I plan on a brief foray into the history of zoning, including why it was put into place, and some samples of typical zoning legislation, and the briefest glimpse as to criticisms leveled against it.) My compatriots then get to argue whether we should scrap zoning entirely.
Then, on the following monday I need to have written my homelessness paper. Also, cal’s application deadline is december 15th. I haven’t even checked into other places yet. Need to write up a letter of recommendation for Ro to rubberstamp, and another one to go through the berkeley free clinic approval process. Fortunately, Lai-San (aclu volunteer coordinator in pittsburgh) has offered to write her own, which brings me up to three recommendations.
I hate marketing myself.
Funkity funk funk. Go for a bike (and be exhausted by the time Gymnast-Patrick’s bday party rolls around) or go in to work, and be lonely and probably grouchy. Or maybe start work on the recommendation letter drafts. Hmmmm.
Princess! The river holds the trout;
so does the world take care of me.
And if you do not choose to see
that what we are, we choose to be
It’s hard, but is all one to me.