smart person with patience likes cycling shocker

we have to take the car

ignoring the skeletal elephant in the room for the moment

thanks for playing, konyaspor!

insta-personalcanon

yesterday i woke up and i knew what happened yea i knew what happened* and i'm leaving it the hell alone because i don't need any more scenes playing over and over in my head


*i don't know what happened and i never will

what is it up in the air for?

the tour this year is freaking me out. i spent the first five stages moaning about how all of the gc contenders were still in contention. we've made it to the first rest day with nary* a mountain in sight. i'm trying to get emotionally invested in the polemica and failing miserably. i miss highroad. the pre/post-race stuff is a huge mess and i never thought i'd say this because i generally love interviews but i can barely keep myself from changing the channel. the people on the field (which i'm sure are really nice and work very hard and will get better at this) are just not very good at questions** which would be managable if they could speak english but they can't and it's freaking 2012 but they're oh-so-fluent in german which i'm pretty sure they don't need to be because all the german speaking riders speak english well enough to give interviews and and and they interviewed jens in german the other day and it made me cry because why why why would you do that to us and why?*** and this happens where they ask a question and the rider looks at them blankly mostly because he's tired and bored but also because they can't speak english they just panic or possibly think it's the rider who can't speak english and so they just ask an even worse question oh and dh's been transformed into a history-revising winking nudging schleckhater which is just great.


*so my definition of a mountain is different than yours. big deal.
**by "not very good at questions" i mean i could think of better ones and generally felt i was better informed about the rider
***even if they didn't make shit up while translating which they totally do everyone who knew anything worth knowing about cycling knows that you interview jens in english.


i don't know, man. it just feels strange, y'know?
by strange i mean has potential for greatness.

saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

i want to talk about things that happened but i've lost all perspective on everything and decided i shouldn't be allowed near functional people except every now and then one of them gives me something new to obsess over and it's so good i don't think i

that's not how you pronounce "epitome" but who cares

i have this patch on my face where skin of the undereye kind extends out to my cheek it's about a square centimeter in area and it's the only place where my skin is completely flawless and all it does is that it makes me look like i'm woefully incompetent in foundation application