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Anita

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About Me


About me? Really? Umm, okay. My legs are always undergoing some kind of abuse, be it from cycling, crashing while cycling, snowboarding, dancing, running, getting kicked in the shins....
Apparently, I like bicycles. And going fast/turning left.
I bake all manner of delicious goodies when I have time and am inspired.
I like cookies.
I've been known to take photos.
Photos

My Interests

anything and everything, but right now...cycling, racing, (road, track, and cyclocross), industrial design, linguistics, languages, svenska, francais, house plants, coffee, tea, good food, good desserts, snuggling, going wherever life takes me,finishing my degree at PSU so I can start a Nursing program!

I'd like to meet:

Creative, athletic, genuine people. And any combination thereof.

and...Tasha Smith:

Music:

changes regularly. right now: amy winehouse, bloc party, blue scholars, boom bap project, brother ali, buck 65, common, ghostface killah, handsome boy modeling school, j-live, latyrix, lifesavas, medeski martin & wood, M.I.A., nas, rjd2, sage francis, sly & the family stone, wu, and many more

Movies:

those that make me laugh, cry, and keep me otherwise entertained... a fish called wanda, amelie, box of moonlight, wallace and gromit's curse of the were-rabbit, death at a funeral, dogma, the edukators, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fight club, girl interrupted, kitchen stories, naked states, office space, stand and deliver, the three burials of melquiades estrada, triplets of belleville, v for vendetta

Television:

kill it...oh man, recently i've been sucked into such shows as scrubs, arrested development, the chapelle show, and a few others. all on dvd. no commercials!and...i've been seen watching discovery channel and/or bad mexican tv in the morning while drinking my coffee.

Books:

i remember a time when i was very into books. now, in my free time, i ride my bike. perhaps over the summer i will again read books for pleasure. or more likely, in the winter when the dark, rainy hours are plentiful.when i read, i remember enjoying such books as 'the monkey wrench gang' and 'ishmael.'at some point last year i attempted to read 'anna karinina' and got about halfway through before deciding i had better things to do.as a child my favorite book was 'matilda.'

Heroes:

I don't play favorites. I see a lot of good and admirable qualities in a lot of different people.

My Blog

apparently i’m in the psu newspaper

I got interviewed last week, and the article was published in the PSU Vanguard....
Posted by Anita on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:09:00 PST

training = wiggle legs

Gotta love those training rides that leave you feeling so spent that you don't even want to walk around afterwards. Maybe it was the two days in a row of hill after hill after hill, plus the madison ...
Posted by Anita on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:00:00 PST

show disappointment

No, don't show me that you're disappointed, unless you went to the M.I.A. show last Friday here in Portland. Yes, the first show/concert/whaterver they're called these days, that I've been to in fore...
Posted by Anita on Wed, 28 May 2008 09:30:00 PST

rain

so it's may 25th, 50-ish degrees, and raining. wtf?this rain is doing nothing for my morale. riding in this weather sucks. i went out for an hour and a half, came back cold and crabby. rain also m...
Posted by Anita on Sun, 25 May 2008 01:30:00 PST

Ive finally figured it out

I've finally figured out what I want to do for the rest of my life.Ok...not really. BUT, I do have a goal, and a plan, for completing school and then going to more school. That was grammatically hor...
Posted by Anita on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:46:00 PST

Motorcycles

This weekend I finally took the Basic Rider Training class that is offered at our local community college. Despite the overwhelmingly hot weather and the fact that the parking lot we learned in was r...
Posted by Anita on Wed, 21 May 2008 10:48:00 PST

Collegiate Road National Championships

Saturday's road race was brutal. I've never been up so many *steep* hills in my life. I've been told that some of the grades were 15% or more! With 80 women starting in this race, it was the bigges...
Posted by Anita on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:57:00 PST

Northwest Collegiate Cycling Conference Championships

This weekend marked the 6th and final weekend of the Northwest Collegiate Cycling Conference. After the MSU race weekend, I managed to get sick. On Monday, I felt something coming on, so I drank ton...
Posted by Anita on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:26:00 PST

CWU Collegiate Race Weekend

This weekend was brutal. For serious. On Saturday, we rolled out in 70 degree sunny weather. First real warmth of the year. The Women's A road race was 45 miles of chip-sealed roads, and it was wi...
Posted by Anita on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:10:00 PST

PSU Collegiate Race Weekend - this one’s exciting

This was the third of six weekends of racing. The weather, well...it could have been better, but at least it didn’t snow.Saturday - Road Race:I raced around Hagg Lake for the 4th time this year...
Posted by Anita on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:46:00 PST