1. trucks. specifically, that they will not kill you, and that they will specifically not kill you, where you are a bicyclist.  this is in contrast to taxis, which leave you fearing for you life, and motorcycles, which leave you fearing for your life and constantly on the lookout for the motorcyclist who thinks the piste a velo, or bus lane that ( Read more... )

i feel like death

that means there is a 95% chance i wont ( Read more... )

...In Which Heather Considers Leaving Chicago With E, and Chicago Conspires to Keep Her Here.

sheesh, this is hard.

i am drinking chocolate milk and my hair is in pigtails.

only, the milk is soy and the pigtails are tied with carabiners.

i'm a grown-up now. this is chocolate milk and pigtails for grown-ups.

(i am taking the day off of work today as i am sick, and feel like making a map that i've been meaning to make for awhile-- so now i am looking for data before rushing off to the doctor's)

Chicagoland's public transit system has a slightly creepy quirk to it-- the automated voices at stations (CTA and Metra) are female, and the automated voices on ( Read more... )

i am going to miami in a month for a week. good idea/bad idea to bring Small Feline Predator along ( Read more... )

we should have been drinking diet soda

one of the name-brands

in cans.

with straws.

xkcd has something to say about this.

"nearness" is generally relatively high.

this afternoon!  I want her to be vegan, but she will not be vegan tomorrow*, because I don't know enough about vegan cat diets yet, and keep running into the most idiotic things about cats and veganism while trying to learn about the subject.

I think it'll help my psychological state to list them and rant about them. you probably don't want to ( Read more... )