a life of quiet desperation

Tonight I walked to the grocery store in 8 degree weather. I forgot to put on my long johns on my lower half (I actually call them tights, for which all my friends make fun of me), and it turns out jeans aren’t very insulating. Upon arriving at the grocery store, I realized that I am in many ways not a unique human being, as my mother would have me think. I wanted soup. They were sold out of almost every kind. I ended up buying some really generic kind just so I could have chicken noodle. It tasted a little like metal. Then I wanted some saltines to go with that soup. They were out of those too. Apparently, in some ways, I’m just another — as Thoreau would say — of the mass of men leading lives of quiet desperation...for soup.

By the way, this is what 8 degrees looks like.

favorite things

[This post is a response to a blog tagging incident from a friend who’s blog you should check out.]

Here are some of the things that make me happy:

1) Spending time with a certain someone who will go unnamed here for now.
2) Krav Maga
3) NPR
4) My fancy new eco-friendly, not gonna give me cancer from free radicals, stainless steel water bottle.
5) Touch screens! My iPod touch has one. Now I want a MacBook that has one.
6) Bicycle shops (specifically Turin and Cycle Analyst)

Here are some blogs that make me happy:
Copenhagen Cycle Chic
bikecommuters.com
Pistols and Popcorn
FAIL blog
Bike Snob NYC

paranoid much?

Does it mean I'm crazy that I bought a cookie at a coffee shop then didn't eat it when I discovered it was a peanut butter cookie? I'm not usually quite so phobic, but you never can be too careful.

Notification: Content Changing

So you may begin to see some changes in the type of posts I make on this blog. Since May of 2007, when I started it, I reserved it for my "writing," that is to say, things I write that I keep within certain constraints and do my best to craft into something between poetry and prose that lands not too far from the label of aphorism. Don't get me wrong...there will still be those posts. But there will also be more everyday type posts where I just talk about life and what I find in it in a very matter-of-fact probably-not-at-all-poetic kind of way. Also, I may try to incorporate more photos. Like this one.
That someone took of me as I was walking out of my bathroom during the New Year's Eve party at my place that got a bit out of hand. (All I'll say is that it took mopping the floor TWICE to make the sticky from the champagne go away). I might even add photos like this one too.
Taken, obviously, at the Celestial Seasonings factory in Boulder. (Apple Banana Chamomile tea, YUM.)

Let's hope, for your sake, that not all the photos that I post will be of me though. To recap: changes are afoot. Just wanted to let you know.