Week 3: I may or may not be thinking about seriously trying the cycling thing, for reals.

(Monday, 26 May)
Jesus, I am a lazy slob. I got home last night at like 4.30, and then slept until 1. In the PM! I don't think I have ever in my life slept that late into the afternoon. What the hell? It's like my body was totally unfazed by the fact that I slept 8.5 hours into the middle of the day. I know there's folks like this at Tech, and I guess it just took me like 4 years to figure it out. I was scared.

Spent the day steam cleaning the car (very rewarding, I highly recommend) and then working. Yuck.

(Tuesday, 27 May)
Ran a few miles easy in the AM to pick up my bike at Parkwood, but I think I may have had some mild food poisoning or something because I had a bit of the... squirts. It was unpleasant but seemed to work its way out of my system by mid-evening. It may have had something to do with the nearly raw beef I had for dinner. Next time I'm going to demand that Matt and Mark throw those suckers back on the grill.

(Wednesday, 28 May)
Basketball class today. Man, I saved the day! It was awesome! Here's what happened. So, we're doing some suicides, which is when you sprint up and down the court and it's so painful you wish you were dead (changing direction is tough). Then, Coach has us do this thing where you take free throws, I think it's called 1 and 1's or something, where if you make the first free throw you have an option to take a second one, so you either get 0, 1, or 2 free throws total.

Okay, so we do the suicide thing. He has us do the free throws. We're all tired. Then, he's asking us how many we made and basically we sucked, because it's intro basketball class and we don't know what the hell we're doing. So, he's like, suckers, do it again. So we do the suicides again, and the free throws again, and he goes down the line and we still suck. So, he get's this sad panda look in his face, like geez, I just want to go home and eat my snacks, why are you sucking at basketball? So instead of doing it the whole thing again, he says this time we just have to do suicides so that we go to half court and back, and then the full court and back (we'd been doing it with the court in quarters). So then we come back from that and we're all tired. And he randomly starts choosing people to get up in front of everyone and try to take the free throws. First person to make it, we all go home.

So, numero uno dude he picks misses the first shot. Everyone's getting nervous. It's clear we could be here for a long, long time. (He picked the guy who was doing the best earlier in the class at getting his shots). So, next person he picks is - you guessed it - yours truly. So everyone's like, oh shit, he picked the one girl, and she's the one who looks like a blind walrus out there. I'm out of breath from the sprinting, and I'm like pouring sweat so I basically look like a disaster. I get out there and do my thing and I make the first shot and everyone is like OH DAMN! and I'm like sweet! But no, I have to make the second shot. Folks get nervous. I do my little hop preparation and SWISH the second sucker goes in! EVERYONE IS LIKE OOOOOH DAAAAMN and like "thank you so much" for ending class and we all go home. It was great.

In other news, I'm seriously considering doing the Everest Challenge. 29,000 ft of climbing in 2 days. Is this loco or just nuts? Maybe if I did Baldy like every week for 2 months beforehand... and got really low gears...

(Thursday, 29 May)
Macked up yoga class.

(Friday, 30 May)
Run and breakfast with Susan - both of which were awesome. We went down around Huntington plus a little so we came up El Molino. Ran into Scott- turns out he's getting a squirt. Cool! Her name is Evelyn or "Evy" for short. Way cute. That kid is super lucky.

Also turns out the LeMond is way effed - rust in the head tube or something. We're sending it back. Good news is that there's hella bikes in the Parkwood garage so we built up a carbon fiber Quatro Assi that's been in there for a while. The carbon makes me nervous but it's way light and I think the size will be okay, we need a shorter stem though.

(Saturday, 31 May)
Piddled around. I can't even remember what I did. I think I had fun though.

(Sunday, 1 June)
Student-faculty softball game. It was okay except for the getting made fun of every five seconds - that got old. Rode around the QA a tad before having to head back. Ian showed me how to adjust the derailleur while riding, which was pretty cool. Also finished up that orange American Classic rear wheel, so now the bike is looking much more presentable.