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fuckyeahcycling:

Giro d’Italia 2012 | Stage 21

Ryder Hesjedal giving it 100% on the final stage time trial.

(via Photo from Reuters Pictures)

fuckyeahcycling:

Giro d’Italia 2012

Canada! How proud of Ryder are you all?

(via Photo from Reuters Pictures)

Kitteh!!!

(Source: sweetlittlekittens, via everyonelovescatss)

Anxiety dreams about new job have started, even though new job doesn’t start for 10 days.

In last night’s dream my new job was in Montana (in P-burg), where last summer’s job was. And featured some of my fellow interns from last summer. And the ridiculous computers - mid-90’s, running Windows 98.

… what?

elytra:

riotgrrrrrrl:

Why I identify as queer.

I LOVE THIS. <3, Queer Cisgirl With A Cisboyfriend

This is fantastic.

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lindseykirkbride:

A survey of 11 recent Portland tech startups, ranging from companies with four employees to 80, reveals that their total workforces were typically 70 percent to 80 percent male, while their development and engineering teams—i.e., the people who write the actual code—have even fewer women. In many cases, none.

So glad to have found this piece from the Willamette Week! Super solid reporting on the state of gender diversity in the startup boom here in Portland. 

dduane:

Upstairs cafe terrace, English Market, Cork on Flickr.

I miss this place so much.

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Tea always makes things better. (Taken with instagram)

Today is really, really not going well. Like, all the things have gone wrong.

Also, I’m already back in the ETC making angsty posts to tumblr. Just not okay.

Spilled water in my computer. It shut down on its own in less than two seconds. Pretty sure that isn’t a good sign.

Really, really not what I needed right now. Fuck.

Rainy day. Trying to embrace it rather than be annoyed all day that it isn’t sunny. After all, I went on a fantastic bike ride yesterday despite the rain. But today is a different kind of rain: I woke up to the sound of it pouring down on the roof. It’s that kind of rain that you hear and think “today is not a day to go outside.” But I need to get better at dealing with this kind of rain, because I spent too much of this past year holed up in the apartment.

Today: Clean kitchen. Pick up room. Plan out meals for the week. Making grocery shopping list. Go to Trader Joe’s. Do a lot of work (10 days to finish this project… eep). Start learning Ruby. Make plans with lots of people. Do something to relax: read? Buffy? Attempt to clip cat’s toenails (neither the cat nor I is excited about this).

(Source: perfect-moods)

Lost my phone yesterday. No idea where it could be. Possibly fell out of my pocket somewhere?

Options:

$199.99 iPhone 4S with $15 a month data plan, which buys me 200MB of data. This would add up to $560 over 2 years. If I go over 200MB, I get another 200MB for $15.

$9.99 Samsung Galaxy S2 with $30 a month data plan, which buys me 3GB of data. This would be $730 over 2 years. I doubt I would ever go over 3GB of data.

GAH decisions. On the one hand, I would love an iPhone. On the other, 200MB is not a lot of data. On the other, I could get 400MB for 11 months and it would work out to be the same… On the other, the Samsung Galaxy S2 is supposed to be a good phone…

I don’t know what to do.

Also,

please, please professor I know I didn’t do like 1/4 of the assignments for this class (I tried, okay, it’s just there is this thing called thesis and it took over my life for the past month) but please I just need to get credit for this class so I can have 6 units for senior year so I can graduate. That’s all. Just, even a D I think would be fine. Please.

Alright, can do this.

Last undergrad assignment turned in at 5 am. 3 hours of sleep (makes for 8 hours in the past 3 days).

Awoken by mother calling at 8:30 to tell me yhe whole family is already awake and ready to go and to get up to go on adventures. Will be dragged around until afternoon, when roommie and I will go dress shopping and then I will go out for dinner with ALL the family.

I can do this. I can do this. I can sleep in probably 12 hours (thank the gods for grandmothers who go to bed by 10pm and who are jet-lagged). I can do this.

I’ve been awake for more than 36 hours (well, except for that half hour at my thesis desk). I can’t think straight anymore. I should really go to sleep, but I still have math assignments to do, and I’m starting to worry that if I don’t turn them in tomorrow I’m not going to pass the class and I won’t graduate…

I’m also feeling ridiculously nostalgic, because this is like the last night ever that I am floundering against exhaustion trying to complete work. I mean, perhaps I’ll go to grad school, but definitely not for a while, and it will never be the same as my experience at Reed. This is the end. I’m glad; I’m ready to move on. But still… this is the end of four years of insanity and anxiety and working really hard and being around amazing people also working their asses off and late night misery and pride at getting problem sets done in the wee hours of the morning and those little things that happen at 2:30 am when you come back from the library that are sometimes kind of amazing and and and. How did we make it this far? (except not quite done yet)

I’ve got to be up in 6 hours to go to the airport to meet my parents.