But the day improves!
Mar. 4th, 2009 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aprilstarchild1. At the intersection leaving Sunset Transit Center this morning, I was waiting for the light with another cyclist. Turns out he's a guy I've seen around, an older guy who also attends the Midnight Mystery Rides. He was wearing normal clothes and riding...a fixie! On those hills! Damn. We chatted almost all the way to my office, although I did coast ahead of him on the steeper downhills.
2. Took the same route as the bus, from work to the max station. It was an effort, but not as awful as the shorter route. It's totally doable.
And I remembered something I read in a Rivendell bike catalog thing: When you're doing a steep climb, count to a hundred or recite the alphabet. One letter for each breath, starting over when I finish it. It doesn't make the ride physically easier, but it makes it mentally easier. Instead of thinking "oh fuck oh shit I hate this it sucks," I'm just taking it one moment at a time.
3. Went to People's farmers market and went shopping, and came home and ate an artichoke, with melted margarine and dill. Mmmm... And I have the ingredients for several more meals. AND the new issue of Bitch Magazine was there.
4. Discovered Google translator. Having fun looking at websites for Japanese clothing. Amused endlessly to discover that "petticoat" is occasionally somehow translated to "bottle holder." WTF? I know that petticoats are sometimes called panniers and maybe that's related? I don't know. Sometimes I can figure out what they're saying and sometimes I can't. Bah.
But I have to say, oh god, some of these dresses are beautiful. I am especially enamored of the brands Victorian Maiden and Innocent World. Both brands make some dresses that could pass for just really dressy clothes; so much lolita stuff is cute but I would feel odd wearing it in public. But, yeah: I found several dresses I'd be willing to get married in.
Of course, I don't have $300 to blow on a dress. And neither site ships outside of Japan. Which is kinda dumb, the sites that are willing to sell to Americans do tidy business from what I can see, with lots of American lolis wearing them. I mean, if I had the cash I could still buy the clothes, but I'd have to do it through a buying service and pay extra.
5. Got a postcard from Shawn G. when he was in Santa Cruz (he's in California for two weeks visiting friends and going to the Bike Summit in LA). Every other time I've seen his handwriting, it was photocopied! The part of the postcard he wrote on is completely covered in small but very legible text. He started it "April dear," which gave me the warm fuzzies. Which is what inspired me to write this list.
2. Took the same route as the bus, from work to the max station. It was an effort, but not as awful as the shorter route. It's totally doable.
And I remembered something I read in a Rivendell bike catalog thing: When you're doing a steep climb, count to a hundred or recite the alphabet. One letter for each breath, starting over when I finish it. It doesn't make the ride physically easier, but it makes it mentally easier. Instead of thinking "oh fuck oh shit I hate this it sucks," I'm just taking it one moment at a time.
3. Went to People's farmers market and went shopping, and came home and ate an artichoke, with melted margarine and dill. Mmmm... And I have the ingredients for several more meals. AND the new issue of Bitch Magazine was there.
4. Discovered Google translator. Having fun looking at websites for Japanese clothing. Amused endlessly to discover that "petticoat" is occasionally somehow translated to "bottle holder." WTF? I know that petticoats are sometimes called panniers and maybe that's related? I don't know. Sometimes I can figure out what they're saying and sometimes I can't. Bah.
But I have to say, oh god, some of these dresses are beautiful. I am especially enamored of the brands Victorian Maiden and Innocent World. Both brands make some dresses that could pass for just really dressy clothes; so much lolita stuff is cute but I would feel odd wearing it in public. But, yeah: I found several dresses I'd be willing to get married in.
Of course, I don't have $300 to blow on a dress. And neither site ships outside of Japan. Which is kinda dumb, the sites that are willing to sell to Americans do tidy business from what I can see, with lots of American lolis wearing them. I mean, if I had the cash I could still buy the clothes, but I'd have to do it through a buying service and pay extra.
5. Got a postcard from Shawn G. when he was in Santa Cruz (he's in California for two weeks visiting friends and going to the Bike Summit in LA). Every other time I've seen his handwriting, it was photocopied! The part of the postcard he wrote on is completely covered in small but very legible text. He started it "April dear," which gave me the warm fuzzies. Which is what inspired me to write this list.
