I think I got to work faster by bike than I normally would have by car....
I left around 12:30pm from class, and got here at 1:37pm.
By car I would have had to bike back home, drop my stuff off, change, and then walk to my car. I probably would have eaten something to. Let's see, that would have put me at being in my car at probably 1:00pm... and then a 20 minute drive at that time... but then having to park in China town and walk 20 minutes... that would be around 1:40pm. I beat the hypothethical by 3 minutes! Yes! I would have gone faster but my legs were still tired from yesterday.
Haha. Yesterday. Yesterday was a fun day.
It was yesterday when I biked to work for the first time. At 7pm I was going to cover Bobby's shift until 9pm. At 4:30pm, I was about to leave when he called me to see if I could cover it starting at 5pm. It definitely takes me an hour to get to UCLA from here, and I wasn't able to leave until 4:45pm because somebody in the office saw my bike and started blabbing on about biking somewhere.
So I rushed back. It was definitely easier on the way back. I took a Olympic instead of Pico (which smelled horrible half the time), which turned out to be mostly flat ground and some nice downhills. When I was on Westwood approaching Wilshire, there were these pigeons in the road. I was saying "move pigeons, move!" and they were still just chillin' by the road. At this point I'm going 15 mph and I'm not about to stop for some damn pigeons, and with all the cars around, I can't exactly swerve out of the way.
So I just rode through.
And of course, demonstrating the amazing reactivity of the pigeon species, they didn't move until I was half a foot away. Then, instead of flying AWAY from what was running into them, they flew TOWARDS it... meaning me... meaning my head. Haha. I definitely had to duck.
I got hit in the head by a bird before. Different story. I was just walking around campus and went by a low-branched tree, and apparantly there was a bird on a branch that I didn't notice and that didn't notice me. Yeah. Freaked out in my face.
The rest of the night was pretty good. I was biking around campus going to close Young Research Library when this girl came up to me and asked if I could take note of an incident that just occured to her.
Immediately when she tells me this, I think "*sigh* Masturbator." Really though. That's what YRL is all about. I'd say about 80% (if not higher) of the incidents that occur there are lewd conduct related. The entire library is just big, empty, with lots of cover, and the same weird guys come all the time. And whenever I begin to tell this story to anyone, the immediately think it's going to be about some wanker as soon as I say "YRL."
Anyways, she claimed this guy had broken her computer by knocking it off of the table and she was trying to approach him about taking some responsibility for it, and he was completely ignoring him. Well, at that point I was thinking that it was pretty serious since her computer was broken. Sucks. So I was talking to her, and a guy zips by us. She points out that he's the guy. Really distinguishing appearance. Green long-sleeved shirt, black pant, large brown bear, long hair, and this canvas back-pack. So I kept obs him and updated control of his location. Then he headed downthis ampitheatre by the Fowler Musuem. And shit -- I lost ops for maybe 5 seconds because I had to get on the grass, and there were some bushes blocking my view. I get to the stairs of the ampitheatre, the UC arrives, and the guy is gone. He must have gone inside. He must have had a key. They searched the building and didn't find anyone, but all he needed was a damn key to get into a place where they couldn't search. There was no way he did't enter the building.
So I started doing perimeter checks like crazy. Being on a bike makes you so much more aggressive. Anyways, didn't find anything and went back to the library with one of the UCs to talk to the girl. I felt bad, and then all of the sudden, some truth starts coming into the story. He didn't knock down her computer, he accidently (as far as you could tell, because you can't prove that it was intentional) nudged it on the tape and her charger came loose. And then, the computer itself wasn't broken, he charger was just not charging. You know, people who leave their chargers all dangly off the sides of tables deserve it pulled out.
The funniest part was her subject description of the guy. UC 83's out there prompting her for the description and she has everything all wrong. Wow. The only thing she has right was the he was a male/white. She missed the beard. Thought he had been blonde. Thought he was wearing blue jeans and a blue jean shirt. Labeled him as 130 lbs. Dude. This guy was TALL. At LEAST 6 foot. He was not going to be 130 lbs. I don't even think I weigh 130 lbs. Maybe 135 lbs. I don't know. I don't weigh myself.
Oh, and don't question whether or not I was following the right person. He was the only guy around.
All in all, a pretty fun night. Got home around 10pm maybe, finally ate some dinner, and wrote an essay on ecofemism. Lovely. It's actually really interesting; I hadn't really read anything about it before. Actually, I'd never even heard of it. The times that I've tried to talk to guys about it in an intellectual manner they get really defensive about it, and simply dismiss it as stupid. Kind of interesting. It's not accusatory; it just looks at the facts. I think people are just put off about by the word "feminist" and start to feel like they are being attacked. Sad.
I think I'll write something up about it in thenewnature. We'll see how it goes. I'll definitely write more about it later SOMEWHERE. It's rather interesting. I never really thought about ecological degradation and woman objectification steming from man's internal bitterness towards one's mortality and reliance upon non-human resources. That's pretty much the jist of it. I've read some stuff that just talked about exploitation and oppression, but that never really delved into exactly why that culture has developed in male communities. It was a very interesting perspective.
Well, back to work. This hippie needs money.