Schreiber

1. Written on a series of public transport options,* on the way to see my mother off home from Logan
In happier news, I now have a bike! Bought Friday off "the sketchy guy by Shaws" (as my roommate refers to him) at a comparatively low price. Consequently (well, consequent to that and to what happened to my last two bikes) I am now being paranoid about all the things that might be about to go wrong with it.
However, while having a bike again is something I have wanted for some years, my more immediate purpose--using it for exercise in lieu of jogging until my knee heals up--is not working as well as hoped. The inevitable stops and starts and periods of coasting, among other less identifiable factors, mean that it doesn't work as well for either exercise or loosening up the joint as does an exercise bike at the gym.

And also, I am left wondering whether I literally had testicles made of metal back when I used to cycle regularly. owwie.

2. At the airport, Mom presented me with her old computer! Yay, thanks Mom! I now have a computer with an actual battery!
She was also planning to pass me her old smartphone. While I like this idea in theory, I'd need to replace the SIM Card (since hers is British), and I doubt whether (a) my stupidphone uses the same type of Sim Card and (b) my ability to locate and remove it, given that my phone is so old that I'm not even sure what the model is. And finally, my PC phone company will just GIVE me a smartphone if I put myself in hack sign up for a two-year contract avec data plan, which would also save me the trouble of explaining to them that I'm switching phones and...
So yeah. Now all I need is an hour to spend on the phone with them.

3. Things to do:**
* Job applications (constant)
[Inc.: Mem. to keep checking the BC website]
* Bleach the shower
* Look up the benefits on (cruddy) website of (cruddy) insurance, to find out whether I'm paying for glasses frames out of pocket.***
w Buy said glasses
() Put on some KUEC and actually put my laundry away
w Bake bread for families with newborns (Sunday?)
() Schedule some time off Friday Sept. 30 and Sunday Oct. 3 DONE
() Look up train times for this purpose DONE†
On a related note, find out how much time on what day I should take off to help Sovay move.
* Order smartphone
w Get watch(es?) fixed
() Find out what we're always looking across at from the Silver Line††
() Re-learn Persian alphabet††
w Car inspection (Sat. Sept. 17? Or find a place in Waltham?)
() Look at CoJ website?
() Fulbright website (et sim)?


*Unrelated footnote written at the time: Why is the African-American woman across from me on the train reading Ann Coulter? PLEASE tell me this is for a class or something.

** I'm writing this up because I've realized that I frankly suck at adulting, and I might as well write this here as anywhere.

*** For this: Get out both insurance cards, and check the info on the websites. Or find the paperwork--that might include it. (See above)

† OK, so there's a train that leaves Porter an hour later than the one I usually take. Even if, in the best/worst case scenario, I wake up hungover in someone else's bed, I think I can probably make that. Possibly even with my trousers on over my underwear.
And for Friday: 3:59 out of B/R. Take an abbreviated lunch and an hour of Personal Time: check.

†† Mostly just for the heck of it