Oct
29
So Scary
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Just wait till the end, you will see what I mean about scary...Anyway, it's Halloween weekend. Halloween is historically my very favourite holiday, but for some reason this year I allowed life to distract me from preparing a good costume. Bummer. Next year I will be something for sure. I like to try to wear the least revealing outfit possible. Most chicks are skank-somethingorother for Halloween and it's kinda boring. Dudes either cross-dress or go as pimp-somethingorother. So the challenge is to be clever, NOT "sexy", if you ask me.Enough preaching. The other night we carved our pumpkins, pictured below. Guess which one was mine and which was Devon's?...
Oct
26
Small Victories
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I like to practice my cyclocross "skills" up in Redwood Park about once a week. There is basically one route that I am familiar with, once I tried to explore beyond it and got totally lost and found myself asking a dog-walker what the most bike-friendly route back to the road might be. She looked at me funny and then said "well that way goes down hill, but you have to remember to turn right at some point." So very helpful... ever since then I have stuck to the familiar, and tried to master its combination of roots, scary drop offs, steep little climbs, and one big curb.And yesterday I finally rode the whole thing! I didn't have ...
Oct
23
Yesterday was the second race of the Bay Area Super Prestige Cyclocross series. It was a hot and dusty day at Candlestick Point, next to Monster Park where the 49ers play - meaning there was TONS of glass in the parking lots from all of those hooligan tailgaters. I have been to one NFL football game and I highly prefer college football.Anyway, the race... It went well. I finished second! I really wanted to win for my team, Freewheel Bike Shop, and Travis, and Devon, and everyone who was cheering for me. I think I could have won if I had not made a very poor and uninformed equipment choice that caused me to go practically backwards in ...
Oct
19
Gimme some Muscle Milk
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Actually I don't know what gym rats use to bulk up. Maybe it's creatine. In college I remember seeing a lot of the guys walking around sipping smoothies from the smoothie bar and occasionally picking up a weight. Gold's Gym in Oakland is a little more intense and definitely filled with characters. Devon and I have been going for a month. Yesterday I took my camera, because usually we look pretty funny doing our various excercises. I was hoping some of the regular gym scenesters would accidentally be in the backgrounds but it was not to be... And I am not as bold as Sarah B. is in truck stops, where she is able to take photos of the rednecks ...
Oct
14
Australia
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Having this scanner has brought up a lot of memories - I have gone through all the photos I have accumulatd over the years, and found some treasures that I haven't thought about in a while. Ah, nostalgia...So, before I started college, I took a year off. I went to high school at a small all-girls' school, and I boarded there, so I was pretty aware that I had a poor concept of what the real world was like. So I took a year off. I went to England first for three months, and had a blast. Then I went to Australia. My mom gave me a camera for Christmas that year, which I put to good use ...
Oct
13
More Old Photos…
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This is unofficially named the My Little Brother Is Pooping His Pants While Ma Is Taking The Photo series. Nathaniel please don't come beat me up, this is funny and cute remember??And in this one, we both might be...
Oct
12
Some Photos
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In the early days of my cycling career...Me as a charming sweet little beach bunny:Me with my dad and my new baby brother who I decided to poke in the mouth:Sabine, the best kitty ever, who I got when she was 1 week old. She knew how to fetch and do somersaults: I am still having too much fun with the scanner. I am remembering ...
Oct
10
New Art Blog!!
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SO, I am kinda successfully working the new scanner! I have started a new Art Blog, which you can see here. And I have a new link to it in my links section.Right now there are only a couple of things on there so check back later and you will probably see more...
Oct
10
Uh-oh…
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Actually my brother is probably the only one who really needs to worry about this purchase... I just bought this Canon scanner, which I will pick up today, and use to post my artwork and all the embarassingly incriminating and cute baby and little-kid photos I have of me and my brother! I can't wait.
Oct
8
Today was my first cyclocross race of the season! I had a blast. The race was at Hellyer Park, the same place as the track races I blogged about a few weeks ago. For those of you who don't know, cyclocross is kind of a mix between a road criterium, a mountain bike race, and some cross-country running. The races are short, today we raced for 45 minutes, and very brutal, today my average heart rate was 190. Sorry for the number geekness but that's kinda high and last time I told my mom about an average heart rate that high she was like "sweetie! you could have had a heart attack!" But anyway, for some reason cyclocross is fun ...
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