bone in sub

why did i stop writing for a while? no reason. in a couple hours i’m flying down to richmond to visit my folks for christmas…i’ve never flown during a holiday (except once when i flew to arizona during some bowl game OSU played in. that was a lot of moms & dads) so i’m excited to see what it’s like. hoping to see huge drama at some point

when i was in first year, someone very involved in municipal politics told me in no unclear terms that it’s basically impossible to keep a bike in the downtown core for two years…”it will be stolen”, they told me. my bike just turned 3! i have a sweet lock, pinheads, i don’t lock it to stupid places (pretty much post-and-rings only, preferably double ones), and it’s not a sweet-looking racing bike or whatever. one time i left my apartment way early in the morning, something like 4, to get a snack and saw a homeless-looking guy checking out my bike and playing with the lock. i started walking towards him and he ran away. yorkville cyclists are not very hardy – during the summer, it was regularly hard to find an open post-and-ring, and lately my bike has been the only one on my block.

freelance work slowed down a LOT between the second half of november until now, not good timing for christmas shopping. it picked back up this week and i have a bunch of gigs in january. it’s going to be very nice to pay off my credit card and be able to put some in savings. and order sushi.

some advertising firm offered me money to put a bunch of horrible flash ads and games on this site a little while ago. even though i should have because it would have been free money, i was too proud or something and kept demanding to see the code before agreeing to a contract. they stopped emailing after i asked a couple times, which makes me think it was phishing or malware anyway. who knows why they came to me, it’s not like i have any kind of serious pagerank.

i’m going to watch the hurt locker on the plane, which i am very excited about.