On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

I am kind of in to this right now and you all will simply have to suffer my intolerable bicycle blabbering. If you are following it on Twitter, it’s #bikedouchery.  There is a growing contingent of tweeting science runners with some kind of chellenge afoot.  Having been a runner in the past, I can say with confident with that cycling is way better.  Once I got the padded shorts in place, that is.

Especially when there are data to be collected!!!  I RULE!!!!

You might have been asking, mis preciosos, whatever happened to the shoes?  Thing of it is, I am dissatisfied with current fashion’s shoe selections.  I mean, this is what designers have to show for themselves…

Figure 1:  Audrinna pump, $39.95 at Shoedazzle.

This year’s shoes are no doubt piling up under beds everywhere, because that is really the only place they are practical for.  Bed.  I love a good heel, but there is no way in fuck I am going to wear most of this year’s shoes anywhere but on a trip flat on my back.

But then today I saw these and realized that there is hope for the world…

Figure 2:  Steampunk pump. $42.99 from an online costume store.   

I found these shoes after someone told me on Twitter that I could ride my bike with garters and I had to do a little googling.

…because I knew every damned one and I just rapped the fuck out of this in my office.