you're so jealous

you're not this cool.

i bought this bike today

remember how i know nothing about bikes? also, marcus and yancy are the best inventions ever!

if you've ever complained about horrible pictures being taken of you, stop now

there's no way it could be this bad.

This is what my life has come to:

My alarm goes off. I snooze for about 30 minutes. I get up and check my email as I'm getting ready. I eat breakfast and go to work. Work usually involves getting lost in Brooklyn, miscalculating travel time and overestimating what I can get done in a certain amount of time. I'm there until way past a reasonable hour and then I come home and can do nothing, but browse online for shoes that I don't intend to buy.
That's it. Also, I need to do my laundry, clean my house and take a shower. All in all, not a bad existence.

Thank you, Luke Stay

For bringing this to my life.

How do you people live?

I've always felt hard-pressed to budget my vacation time so that I was making the most of it and I still always felt like I never had enough time to do the things that I wanted to. I'm not talking about like having enough time to relax and whatever. Sure it would be nice to do that, but I can relax on the weekends. I'm talking about not being able to bike the Irish coast AND visit the Galapagos in the same year that I visit home frequently and visit 4 foreign countries for a combined 2 months. Somehow though, with obvious deficiencies, I got by.

I realize that I have been spoiled my entire life by the academic schedule and so no one is rosining their bow for me, but I don't understand how you people do it! I got a new planner today, it being the New Year and all, and I took a few minutes today trying to budget my vacation time to do the things that are absolutely essentials for me this year and I can't do it! I feel like I have a generous amount of vacation time and flexibility to boot, but seriously how is it possible that I can't go to South America for a week, Florida for a week, China for 1.5 weeks and still fit in the routine family visits?

How do people who only have a measly 2 weeks and federal holidays survive?