Thursday, I continued on my epic pursuit of fitness by actually riding my bike. I originally planned to ride out through Shingletown and continue on up to Tussey, and was aiming for about a 4 hour ride. However, at the campsite on Shingletown I was rewarded with the following spectacular site:
A little display of ominous clouds pretty much sealed the deal to end my ride. So I turned my ass around and descended the gap. The trails were in terrible condition though, as the snow from the day before had a very wet consistency and was unwilling to give up a little traction. But the soggy snow was the least of my complaints; the ride home was subject to strong, gusting headwinds for the whole way back. Eventually I became mentally broke and was very happy to arrive back home after pushing through campus like a sloth. This was a sharp contrast to my ride on Tuesday, where the trail conditions led to perhaps one of my fastest rides out in Shingletown and the ridge.
After the ride I engaged in my traditional, yet highly controversial, "refueling" process which involved consuming an entire Digorno pizza. My diet is clearly one of the main limiters to my fitness, but I doubt I have the resolve to change that anytime soon.
Friday was the 20th of February. This statement seems pretty obvious and unneccesary, but becomes incredibly important when I tell you I thought SATURDAY was the 20th, and even more important when I tell you I scheduled an exam on the 20th for my statistics course. This means that I did not think about my exam until Saturday morning, only to find out I had missed my exam altogether. No high GPA for me this semester...
Friday was also the day our electric bill arrived at our house. Lucky for us, the company increases the cost of energy every month during the winter, so inspite of maintaining a constant power usage we get to pay at least 15% more every month, bringing us to over $200 for the month. I still have no job, and no money, so this will be quite a difficult bill for me to pay right now.
I did make a valiant attempt to correct my unemployment today, but I have high doubts any of the places I applied to will hire me. The one place that seemed most promising is only hiring for summer. Now, as I proved earlier, I am not too good with dates and calendars, but I am pretty sure that the summer is a number of weeks (and a number of electric and cable bills) away from now, so the prospect is of little relevance to my current situation.
I am not putting a lot of effort into this post because, well hell no one is reading this anyway, and I am just plain worn down from the weekend. As a result, I will leave you all with a picture of my fixie that I took while practicing how to be homeless, as well as a picture of my new favorite photoshopped moment:
Photo from http://www.cracked.com/article_17079_20-moments-that-would-have-improved-great-movies.html
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