i completely forgot! yesterday (march 1st) was st david's day. i suppose it's not much of a celebration unless you're welsh, and it's not as ceremonial as eating haggis, but hey, we used to celebrate andrzejki, in fact, my family still does. it's not much of a thing anymore though.
and if the point of a blog is to celebrate the everyday (okay, the point of this blog anyway), why not point out all the mundane and seemingly inconsequential trivialities to bring them out of the mundane and inconsequential? and what is a birthday if not the everyday? so here goes, with the inconsequentiality:
my arms hurt today. this is neither a revelation nor a surprise. but i'm not complaining - i sort of like this feeling.
BUT NONE OF THIS COMPARES to the extraordinariness of the everyday that occurred on the everyday of february 29th (which is not really everyday since it comes once every four years. (all those proto-feminists up there, shut up for a second, this has nothing to do with that).
lookie what came in the post!
a friend of mine very jokingly called it 'a giant wheel of gouda', which wouldn't be a bad name for a bike. though i was contemplating 'bronislaw', though perhaps something less stately and dated (it is my grandfather's name, after all). i will let you know when i think of it.
here was the grand surprise!
and that's me sitting on my newly-unpacked Trek 1.2. it's my first real road bike, so i'm tremendously excited! i was a bit alarmed when it arrived all wrapped up (WITH NO BOX) in bubble wrap and parcel tape, but boy did the chap do a good job! the thing is in mint condition, shiny as silverware. i don't know what it is about animals liking shiny things, but i definitely don't mind being a magpie for a day (apparently they're not very well liked here - you can even destroy their nests!); heck, i'm a magpie every day, picking up shiny things off the road.
SHINY SHINY SHINY!
what a great leap year it was indeed! i also found out that my supervisor's aunt, dorothy robinson, turned 100 (or 25, depending how you look at it) on the 29th as well! she sounds like an absolutely endearing woman! BBC interviewed her on her birthday: you can listen to the little clip here. she is absolutely adorable!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOROTHY!
and if the point of a blog is to celebrate the everyday (okay, the point of this blog anyway), why not point out all the mundane and seemingly inconsequential trivialities to bring them out of the mundane and inconsequential? and what is a birthday if not the everyday? so here goes, with the inconsequentiality:
my arms hurt today. this is neither a revelation nor a surprise. but i'm not complaining - i sort of like this feeling.
BUT NONE OF THIS COMPARES to the extraordinariness of the everyday that occurred on the everyday of february 29th (which is not really everyday since it comes once every four years. (all those proto-feminists up there, shut up for a second, this has nothing to do with that).
lookie what came in the post!
a friend of mine very jokingly called it 'a giant wheel of gouda', which wouldn't be a bad name for a bike. though i was contemplating 'bronislaw', though perhaps something less stately and dated (it is my grandfather's name, after all). i will let you know when i think of it.
here was the grand surprise!
and that's me sitting on my newly-unpacked Trek 1.2. it's my first real road bike, so i'm tremendously excited! i was a bit alarmed when it arrived all wrapped up (WITH NO BOX) in bubble wrap and parcel tape, but boy did the chap do a good job! the thing is in mint condition, shiny as silverware. i don't know what it is about animals liking shiny things, but i definitely don't mind being a magpie for a day (apparently they're not very well liked here - you can even destroy their nests!); heck, i'm a magpie every day, picking up shiny things off the road.
SHINY SHINY SHINY!
what a great leap year it was indeed! i also found out that my supervisor's aunt, dorothy robinson, turned 100 (or 25, depending how you look at it) on the 29th as well! she sounds like an absolutely endearing woman! BBC interviewed her on her birthday: you can listen to the little clip here. she is absolutely adorable!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOROTHY!
