A Fine Idea At The Time

Can you guess my current location in Center City Phila??

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Bike race start (men)

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Didn’t feel like going to manayunk

I have a bigger post in my drafts that will come in the next couple days regarding biking in Philly, but I do have to say this. I had to feed my friends cat so I took 18th Street instead of 20th Street to work today. THE CONDITION OF 18TH STREET IS A FUCKING DISGRACE! Holy god it was really really awful. I really thought I was going to wipe out today.

Last night, I went with my friends Dan and Becca to volunteer with Variety Philadelphia taking kids to the Phillies game. Becca had gotten separated from Dan and I and the two of us left partnered up and chaperoned a really awesome little girl*. She was a younger kid, maybe 5 at the oldest. She wasn’t communicative, besides saying “hi” to everyone and “want” when she wanted something. She was still wearing a nappy and was all smiles.

If Dan or I had kids we would have been properly prepared for the massive amounts of snot that little kids produce. The first time her nose got snotty, and I was about to go in with my hoodie sleeve, she licked it off her nose, much to the disgust of the two of us. It was hilarious. I also almost shit my pants when she was having so much fun and started swinging hard back and forth in her chair. I was scared she was having a seizure and I looked over at Dan who looked as scared as I was. Thankfully, calling her a silly billy showed she wasn’t dying next to us but just being a little kid.

They took her away from us when her nappy got dirty (oh boy, did it get smelly!) and she kept reaching for Dan as the Variety Camp Counselor was taking her. It was heart breaking.

There are so many cute things that she did that night, but it would get boring to get into them all. I am so happy that I did this and I know Dan is too. We fell in love with a beautiful little girl and had such a fun night!

I am a member of Young Variety, and I know that there are young people (under 40) in Philadelphia who read this. For 50 dollars a year you get access to free Happy Hours as well as the opportunity to do fun volunteer activities like what I did last night. More importantly, you’ll be supporting Variety’s mission. Please join if you can

*(I won’t give her name or post a picture, because I’ll respect the privacy of her family. I’m sure there’s enough yuppies who were with us last night that have posted pictures of kids all over facebook and things “look at me I did a good deed”)

he’s so cute! I wanna pinch his gee golly shucks cheekies

Picture of the now: me at work

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I am working on a Cont Ed course for work and as I am studying I am reminded of something an e-friend once “said” while I was in college. I think it was his AIM away message:

“To understand “studying” we have to break it down–
Stud- meaning a very sexy man..
Ying- the first half of inner harmony, symbolizing peace and serenity..
Seeing as How I’m the encapsulation of neither, you know I’m not
so much studying, as sticking it to the “peaceful sexy man” trying to
bring my people down..”. friend, Paul Wenzel

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FOAM AND FROTH

It’s St Patrick’s Day today. We were hoping Theme Pub O’Fiver would be around to write an amusing skit about the festivities - but he’s away in Dublin wearing a big foam top hat shaped as a pint of Guinness, holding a pint of Guinness in each giant Guinness-sponsored foam mitt, spilling both pints of Guinness down the front of his free Guinness St Patrick’s Day T-shirt, picking several of his St Patrick’s Day teeth out of the gutter as he enjoys the Guinness-sponsored craic, and telling a group of severely disinterested girls that despite his thick Dagenham accent, he actually hails from Donegal. (In fact, Theme Pub O’Fiver is a mere one-sixteenth Irish, and only then because on the night of his conception his mother necked an entire bottle of Paggered Mist, the 93.8%ABV Irish Cream Liqueur-flavoured turps beverage, brewed in Basingstoke by Fiver Industries. But that’s a story for another day.)

his accent is annoying.

College Men Unimpressed by Female Binge Drinkers
March 11, 2009

Some college women may drink excessively to gain the attention of men, but new research from Loyola Marymount University suggests that drunk women are not as attractive to men as women believe.

I imagine if they’re unimpressed in college they are likely to be less impressed in their late 20s.

excuse how tired ugly i am and poor cam quality

Waiting for the bus 11 Mar 09 713 am

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Andre on Ross Kemp

If I was one of those gang leaders, I would never let a guy with a camera around. I don’t care if he was on EastEnders.

*synth beat here*

OK Jokers. Colin now has a Bell! (it’s the green thing on handlebars)

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