If you don't feel like reading it, it's just 16 pages of double spaced reasons why bikes are better than cars. you probably already knew that though, if we're friends.

American Bike Culture:
An alternative vehicle, status symbol and lifestyle

by Vanessa Schmitz

It’s 8:30 a.m. You have class in half an hour and your apartment is five miles from ( Read more... )

there are few things so nice as cruising through certain half-deserted streets late at night by myself. i feel like a ghost.
bring the noise!

have slacked slightly on training. feel like a dumb ass. might not get paid for track job. feel kind of used.

le sigh.

but i'm writing a paper on bike culture. works for me.

there's a book exchange in millenium park at one pm. on june 1st. it's at the jay pritzker pavilion and it's hosted by chicago couch surfers. you should check it out ( Read more... )

Neon Hand III: We Graduated, Now What ( Read more... )

i really hate that i made you so sad. there's no easy way to tell anybody that you don't want to be the love of their life anymore. i hate it when you cry. i love you and i want good things for you, but i can't do it.
i'm sorry.
i'm really fucking sorry.

so i was stalking other people online and it made me want to write something of relative quality. i mean, not really, but just for showing off's sake ( Read more... )

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i'm fucking sold on biking for the rest of my life.

bang bang bang ( Read more... )

track meet was semi-successful. pictures to follow. eventually.

i have a track meet today. i'm not so thrilled about it. i have one tomorrow, too, but somebody messed their schedule up (me) and has two works at once. no bueno. lots of speedy biking though, fer shure ( Read more... )