Here's to a super weekend

Amazingly I couldn't find the time to post last night during my Night Watch shift like I normally do. Night Watch is basically the front desk person at our residence halls, who stays up from 12am to 4am on Wednesday and Thursday nights and 2am to 6am on Friday and Saturday nights. I work the desk on Wednesday and Friday every week. Usually I had been posting from there, since I'm up for 4 hours and usually have nothing to do except watch Youtube videos and listen to music. Usually my friends who never sleep come visit me. Its actually a pretty fun job because I get to sit behind the front desk and watch all the drunk people come in. Sometimes they come talk to me, but they're part of the reason I'm there. If one of the residents comes in and they're really really messed up I'm supposed to call university police who come and get them an abulance. Also I make sure people who don't live in the building can't get in and cause trouble.

Being on ResLife means that they pay for my room and board, so I really don't mind being up at all hours of the night talking to drunks.

I lost my cell phone on Monday, which is very upsetting. I had a Palm Centro, and basically had my entire life on that phone. I hadn't scynced it with my computer since August, so I lost most all of the stuff I had on it. Luckily my parents had it insured so Sprint is shipping me a new phone which is supposed to get here tomorrow, but I won't be able to get it from our pathetic package room until Monday. But I'll be glad to have a phone back. I had to write my friend's phone numbers in a little notebook I've been carrying around. And I hate asking people to borrow their cell phones all the time. Also I never know what time it is anymore. I should probably just buy a watch.

Something awesome happened this week though! My boyfriend finally bought a bike! He got a Giant Boulder mountain bike with street tires. It's a pretty solid bike, I really don't know much of anything about mountain bikes, but I've heard pretty good things about Giant. As soon as we got home with his bike he wanted to go for a ride, so we got some of our friends together and rode around in Audubon park and over to the Tree, where we found a bunch of my other friends who had ridden over there earlier and were climbing in the Tree. Now almost all my close friends have bicycles. I can start a bike gang. Or not and say I did.

So, theres some bike mapping this weekend! I'm going on Saturday for sure.

Saturday October 11th, 4pm - Palmer Park. Mapping Hollygrove.

Sunday October 12th, 4pm - Samuel Square. Mapping Central City.

October!

Wow! It's already October. The last few months have gone by pretty quick. But with October comes absolutely beautiful New Orleans weather, lots of frat and sorority parties, fall clothes, and HALLOWEEN. My favorite holiday after Mardi Gras and Christmas. I love Halloween. Why? Because it's an excuse to dress up in ridiculous clothes and drink excessively. And since the month leading up to Halloween is crammed with ridiculous costume parties, dress up days, and themed rides, the month of October should really be renamed Octoween. Upon my boyfriend's request I'm going to be prancing around as a nurse. I will definately be pulling my school uniform out of the closet.

There are two NolaCycle bike mapping rides this weekend.

Saturday October 4th, 4pm - Comiskey Park. Mapping Mid-City/Treme.

Sunday October 5th, 4pm - Park at Esplanade and Grand Rte St John. Mapping 7th Ward/Fairgrounds.

There's some sort of ride coming up this weekend, I read about it on NolaCycle. Crunkical Mass is what it's called, and it sounds like its going to be pretty rad. I'm going to try and go for sure. Any excuse to dress up and ride with people. And it's right after mapping, so everyone should go map and then ride over to the Crunkical deal. Heres the flyer, which I stole from NolaCycle, as usual.

I want this weather to last forever...

It has been absolutely beautiful out as of late. Its been sunny, but not too hot and then there's been a wonderful breeze. I've been going for rides almost every day this week. I rode up and down magazine on Monday and stopped by American Apparel and Buffalo Exchange to get some fun accessories. On Tuesday my friend Jason and I rode around in Audubon park and up around the Fly. We kept getting passed by old people, but I didn't mind at all because I was having so much fun. I love how cycling has brought me so many new friends who love to ride. The sense of
community that comes along with a bicycle is so inspiring.
Unfortunately I can't go on the bike mapping rides this weekend since I'll be out of town again, so here's the times and locations for this weekend's rides

Saturday September 27th, 4pm - Freret St. at McAlister Dr. Mapping Freret and Uptown.

Sunday September 28th, 4pm - Freret St. at McAlister Dr. Mapping Broadmoor.

Maps and Alleycats

Sunday's mapping was awesome! Me and my buddy JohnHenry went as a team and made quick work of the area around Langenstiens. Lauren is going back to her school, which is a total bummer since I only just met her. But she'll be back for more fun soon. I can't wait to do more mapping, I love meeting other cyclists. Here's the map so far, I pulled it from nolacycle. The blue bits are finished. It's looking pretty good.


One of the guys I met at the mapping is going to help me start a cycling club at Loyola, which would be so rad I would'nt know what to do with myself. I also convinced one of my good friends to flip his hub and ride fixie with me. Now I just have to work on getting my boyfriend a bike. Won't be too hard.

Also, there's an alleycat coming up this weekend!! Here's the flyer:
I won't be in town for it so I'm pretty bummed. A Wonderland theme sounds so awesome! But I'm going to be sailing in Mobile with The Boy. I wonder if he'll let me bring my bike...

Uptown Mapping

Today's mapping was an exciting adventure! The turnout was not very big, just me and another girl, but we still had loads of fun mapping between Nashville and Audubon Park. I'm going to go again tomorrow... hopefully more people will be there.