[recap]
stuporbowl: evan and chas arrived in town wednesday night. we all went on ira's pub crawl thursday night, totally awesome. embarked for mpls on friday night for two days of absurdity. party bus, ran out of gas at 2am in the middle of no where. finally arrived in mpls at 6am and went back to sleep. brunched, "raced", and then hung out at the end. the real afterparty started when we got back to the rollerderby girls' house and they offered up their liquor cabniet, ridiculous, and totally awesome. we made it back to chicago after a super late brunch the following morning and lots of attempted sleeping on the bus amid many rest stops to ensure our gas didn't get too low.
(link to my flickr set)
(link to chris dilts' set)
being back in california was pretty great: we flew home first to spend time with the family. my older brother treated us to dinner at the restuarant he is currently managing. sheesh, far too respectable for me, but one of the best meals i've had recently. my mom drove us up to sf thursday night, and we stayed with jen and diego at their beautiful new house out in the sunset. sf was dissapointingly rainy for most of our stay, but the sun peeked out friday morning for our trip to atlas with a whole slew of good people. i spent the day stressing out, ironing out last minute details for the race. yummy dinner at jen and diego's, bender's for the friday the 13th alleycat afterparty, and quality time with taco, john blackwell's new puppy at wendy's house. saturday we pulled the race together and 90, yes 90! people came out. i guess i made it more difficult than intended because only 50 finished. still, i had a great time working a checkpoint and heckling. after party at chrome, dinner at golden era with the group, and a stop at gestalt and the uptown after. sunday, we woke up early to meet up with evan at four barrell before traveling to east bay for brunch at steveb's and then drove up to santa rosa to catch the tour of california. pro racers galore, gold sprints, and coffee filled attempts to escape the rain. ate lanesplitters back in oakland and then arrived back into sf to go to sweaterfunk (?!yeah huh?) night at the lepolounge, a weird bar in chinatown. monday was our last day spent getting bfast with noah and his new lady, dani, dave, and james at st francis, packing up and vietnamese sandwiches in dp. arriving back into chicago was actually really anticipated, and super easy despite our insane amounts of luggage, thanks to dave driving us to sfo and jake picking up on the other end.
cog held a one year anniversary party at av-aerie this past saturday. while i had already seen most of the displayed photos, tons of good people showed up and i had a total blast.
(dumptruck's flickr set)
av-aerie is just a totally rad space, and conviently only 8 blocks from my house. i went to see brian dewan, nana gringold, and music tapes there last night. i'm missing having motivation and friends who want to go to shows. i'll work on it.
we had our first meeting of book club last thursday. shit, i'm super excited to see this actually manifest after far too much idle talk. we chose milan kundera's the book of laughter and forgetting. we'll see how it actually flows.
restarted the next season of indoor soccer. i keep hurting myself but finally learned to just wear contacts. we won our game this past week picking up three awesome players since we were short that night. totally ruling.
i brought back a bike i had left at rigg st. and finally have three complete bikes built up: a work, track, and road bike. pictures to come soon cause i'm super proud of them. hopefully i'll get the last bike i have in working order and i'll be set for sometime.
now that february is wrapping up, i call total bullshit on everyone who told me february would be the worst, weatherwise. hrm, it's been a breeze compared to the average 13 degrees of january. i'm desperately awaiting daylight savings time though-working late just isn't as arduous when it's still light out.
