Archive for July, 2008

Emotionally Unstable

July 26, 2008 - 7:32 pm No Comments

I guess I’m having some male PMS or something, cuz everything is making me agro or fucking depressed. I haven’t been driving lately as you all should know, but I got into my car to buy a new bike and got stuck in traffic, then took out my frustration on poor Gisela. Sorry gurl. Next, to all the girls I’ve dated, fuck you all, you only hold me back. You cancel dates and make dumb excuses for not calling me back. HELLO, I can’t wait for you. I got school and a hundred mile bike race to train for. So don’t get all pissy when I don’t answer my phone. Don’t get all emotional when I can’t come out. There are more fucked up things in the world than your emotional problems. I feel like I should be happy cuz I just finished finals and I got an A for sure, but I’m not. And it’s because of that class, Socialogy 1. Basically it’s all the fucked up things in the world rolled into one class. Globalization, Global Warming, The World Trade Organization, The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank, Gentrification, Rent Control, World Hunger, Water Shortages, you get what I mean. I was already sad before this class when I heard about the plight of the native Hawaiians, of how they are getting kick out of their homes and are living on tents on the beach because rent is too high. WTF! Sometime I wonder about life and humanity. How far have we come? Does helping people make a difference? Is life even worth it?
I just had to get this out of me. Thanx for reading.

The Great Divide

July 26, 2008 - 6:39 pm No Comments

Okay guys next summer there may not be any mountaineering. I just convinced Matty to do the ultimate bike race. The tour de france has nothing on this one. We have one year to prepare which is plenty of time. Here’s the description:

The Great Divide Race is a self-supported, solo competition following the 2,490-mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Traversing Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, the route demands over 200,000 feet of climbing along it’s length. Competitors carry all equipment necessary to negotiate the backcountry, restocking on food and other supplies from the small towns along the route.

So basically you start in Canada and ride to Mexico. The winner this year finished in 15 days, 1 hour, 27 minutes. The female winner finished 7th overall and did in a fucking single speed. Lemme repeat that she finished in 22 days in a FUCKING SINGLE SPEED. The web site has more info

WHO’S WITH ME!

http://greatdividerace.com/

-CrazyChan (the next greatest cyclist ever!)

Something to think about

July 26, 2008 - 6:28 pm No Comments

“Morrie had aging in a better perspective”
“All this emphasis on youth - I don’t buy it” he said. “Listen I know what a misery being young can be, so don’t tell me it’s so great. All these kids who came to me with their struggles, their strife, their feelings of inadequacy, their sense that life was miserable, so bad that the wanted to kill themselves….”
“And in addition to all their miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life who want’s to live everyday when you don’t know what’s going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you’ll be beautiful or this pair of jeans and you’ll be sexy - and you belive them! It’s such nonsense”
-excerpt from “tusedays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, life’s greatest lesson” by Mitch Albom