first of all, my apologies to everyone who’s been bugging me to go out and be social, or at least, for the love of god, to update my damned blog. sorry, sorry, sorry! have been very busy lately, and when have been not busy, have been either stressed and anxious due to quitting old job and starting new job, or sleepwalking due to insomnia. trust me, you wouldn’t have wanted to have been around me anyways. my cats didn’t want to be around me.
but now, a very short update about the job. as mentioned previously, my cube faces a television which broadcasts CNBC all day. mostly this is “meh” at best, but today i happened to notice them airing a special groundbreaking news item: apparently a new study reveals that bicycling is actually worse for the environment than driving. the reason given is that because bicycling makes you healthy, and if you’re healthy you live longer, and if you live longer you generate more trash and use more energy and so on and so forth. since it’s a well-known fact i have nothing but disdain for treehugging filthy hippies and their filthy hippie self-powered transit, i went out and bought a shiny new bike after work. screw the environment! i’ma ride a bike! my shiny new bike is a charmer. she’s blue and white, has blue fenders and a silver chain guard, a built-in back deck and headlamp (!!!), and a kickstand. technically speaking she’s not really new… i’d say, oh, 1950s vintage, and she’s got a little rust so she’s not particularly shiny either, but she’s new to me and she’s shiny in my sight. and i get a kick out of riding her, which i did for three miles up western avenue and across division, then up ashland during rush hour (and lived to tell the tale, even without my helmet). so, screw you greenpeace hippies! i’m riding my bike! MUAHAHAHAHAAAA. (and i’m going to donate the santa bike to working bikes, from whom i acquired my shiny new bike — who needs a name — sometime soon. i like my santa bike in theory, but in practice it hurts my wrists to ride it, so i had to either make a bunch of changes to the santa bike or replace it, and i went with a replacement. for sixty dolla! woohoo bargain-hunting recycling charity co-op shopper niqui!) pictures of shiny new bike later. gotta run, now.
