Pedal Strike

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April 28th, 2009

train wreck

Just a warning: this blog will becoming increasingly…boring…for the next few weeks. At least in the cycling department [which is the whole point of this blog, right?], due to finals.

However, it might be mildly entertaining in that can’t-not-look-at-that-train-wreck kind of way. In moments of clarity and sanity, even I’m amazed at what finals can do to me. I woke up this morning to some pretty disgusting carnage.

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My knuckles are still sore from typing nonstop for the past two weeks. And there’s the final sprint to the finish which consists of a 3 hour exam where no one can manage to type fast enough to get every single issue out on paper. But that kind of fun starts in a few days. Until [and through] then, I’m apparently surviving off [bad] coffee and beer.

I got soundly hammered after drinking less than a third of that beer last night. I drunkenly stared at my notes, feeling guilty enough to try to study but knowing deep down that I was just staring at words that made no sense [although it’s debatable if they make sense when I’m sober]. I looked at my rollers, decided that maybe I should wait until the Asian glow subsided to try riding my bike on them, and ended up passing out after just barely managing to brush my teeth.

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Never much of an endurance athlete, I’m clearly losing the marathon that is law school [drinking this time last year would have been unthinkable…clearly my priorities have changed]. But the race is already on and I’m almost, almost two-thirds done.

And while what doesn’t kill me might make me stronger, my apartment and bike are clearly showing signs of wear and tear [the resulting decrease in value, which, by the way, is not deductible from your income tax return]. I’ve been reduced to begging the Bianchi to last through the next three weeks [please, please pleeaaase don’t break/fall apart]. The dust bunnies in my apartment get no comment.

Except, maybe, that it’ll be May [12th] soon enough.

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