I Got a Job!

A week and a half ago, I interviewed for a social worker position within the Referral and Assessment team in the Child Protection unit of the south London borough that I had been volunteering with over the past two months. If any of you reading don’t remember, because everyone who hears that I was volunteering [...]

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Les Equipes Sans Clips

On a lovely warm Sunday afternoon, the much-improved end to the 50 Fixed Women Ride’s rainy start, a bunch of us were gathered at The (old) Ship, in Fulham, and it was discovered that one of the ladies rides a bike that has a 52×52 cm frame. This is exactly what I’m looking for, after [...]

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The Intersection Between Beauty, Utility, Effort and Sloth

I looked back over my posts to see if I’d written anything more about my non-official internship but couldn’t find anything, which seems like a good indicator for a new post. There is some confusion on what to call myself while discharging my unofficial duties. I’m not associated with a university, so am not a [...]

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Diagram of Large, Raised-Cab Vehicle Blind Spots

As a cyclist, knowing the dangers of the road is paramount. Governments spend much more time and money into making sure drivers are knowledgeable about the rules of the road than any other group of road users, but I’m starting to wonder if there ought to be some sort of similar mandatory road training for [...]

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Married!

It’s shocking how fast time has gone by and here I sit, a married lady for twelve days! I wish I had written about the wedding earlier, things are already starting to slip away. For the first week I kept saying, “Dude! We’re married!” until he was sick of hearing it. But then he’d turn [...]

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Bike vs Body

Since arriving in London two weeks ago, it has been go! go! go! and I have been riding my bike at least 10 miles nearly every single day. Several days it was more along the lines of 20-30 miles a day. After four months, during which time I only managed four rides, I have lost [...]

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At Long Last!

When I arrived in London I had possession of four bags, two of which contained 89.4 lbs of stuff in them by themselves. Traveling from Heathrow Airport to East Dulwich is no picnic, especially when you’re trying to transport a wheeled duffle bag, a giant camping backpack (bigger than dude-sized as the boyfriend said when [...]

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Letting Yourself Feel Weak

I’ll start out by admitting that I have a problem with looking like I don’t know what I’m talking about. Of appearing foolish. This is neither a strange problem, nor an uncommon one, but it’s still uncomfortable because no one likes feeling weak or useless. The underlying feeling behind this, of course, is humiliation. But [...]

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Things & Stuff & Junk

Irony of the day: wearing my pink Local Girls t-shirt, sporting two different shades of hot pink nail polish (hey, I was testing out ridiculous pinks) and complaining about when bike companies put pink stuff on women’s accessories. Bike shipping box, fork and dropout spacers, even tubing foam wrap! procured from LBS and I am [...]

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Ay yi yi!

With another plane trip in the works, travel preparations have been in high gear, as are my fears that I will forget something. I’ve made a list, and checked it thrice, but now that a friend has alerted me to the fact that my thrice-checked acupuncture points tattoo is incorrect on one side, I am [...]

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