“Ma’am, did you really not think you needed to buy a ticket?”

Step counter: 124,911(15 days, from June 4 through June 19) Rough landing in Amsterdam, you guys… Less than 30 minutes after getting off the plane from London, I get in trouble with the Amsterdam transit system. For no other reason than I’m dumb and lack common sense sometimes. In my defense, if they required you to buy a train ticket to board a train, then why are their gates wide open?! I only realized when I got to my station and wasn’t able to “tap out” of the exit gates. The worst part wasn’t even the transit guy basically asking […]

Prone to inertia

Step counter: 70,134(7 days, from May 28 through Jun 3) As I’m writing this, it’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and I have done exactly nothing today but make my hair bluer and sit on my ass watching Boston Legal with a sheet mask on my face. What I realized about myself isn’t so much that I’m lazy by nature or have an addictive personality, even though I tend to exhibit both traits. Rather, I’m prone to inertia. If I’m in motion, I tend to stay in motion until something stops me, like utter physical exhaustion of being go-go-go-go-go. And once […]