Our Pets Heads Are Falling Off!

Holmbird bit the dust this afternoon. The green one, my least favorite. The blue one is living in caged loneliness. It was mine and JP's mutual assumption that the other party was feeding our birds. Turns out their involuntary fast got the better of Green One. Sorry Green One! A death resulting from negligence is both dishonorable and hilarious for a bird. I've got to take my hat off to Blue One for not resorting to cannibalism. We've taught it well.

"I'll just start feeding them regularly and exclusively so there will be no confusion in the future". Good plan.

I wiled much too hard today on my date with my bicycle. The roads were still thinly layered with wet for the morning commute as I barreled down the last hill to 艺术学院. At the bottom of the hill is a traffic light, which was green when I last saw it, and subsequently blue. (The traffic lights in China don't actually turn blue, but that's the resultative color when green and yellow mix). Exercising my dangerously (literally) liberal rights as a cyclist in China I decided to beat the blue light. The car ahead of my decided to heed to it. Circumscribed by vehicles I hit the skids going blatantly too fast to stop, but slow enough to contemplate how I would deal with the angry owner of the Lambourghini Diablo before hitting it. I decided to be scared about the situation. I gathered myself off of his trunk. The owner of the vehicle I ran into was so understandably confused as he alighted the Diablo. He looked like he wanted to yell at me, but more than that he looked like he didn't know how to deal with a foreigner who'd just smashed into his car (no visible damage, I hit him straight on with my tire instead of side-skidding my frame into his bumper, good thing!). I nearly burst out laughing on the spot at the absurdity of the situation. The conversation that transpired went something like this.

冷静 － "....不好意思”，
先生 － ”＃¥％ 干吗？红灯你看过没有？？？“
冷静 － “我的旁边都有车了, 没有办法“
先生－ ”这个呢？“
冷静 － ”那个不是我的“
先生－ ”你看！“
冷静 － ”那个不是我的， 应该没有问题“

Translation (Roughly, some things are hard to translate):
James - "Oh! How embarrassing!" (This is hilarious because "不好意思" is something you say if you accidentally bump into someone on the street, this situation definitely calls for a more serious choice of words, I was still piecing my life together when I said it though leaving no time for word processing)
Holmey - "What are you doing? Didn't you see the red light?"
James - "There were cars beside me, I had no way to...."
Holmey - "What about this??" (pointing to minor scuff marks on his bumper"
James - "That's not mine" (literal translation, if I had more time to think I would've put it more delicately)
Holmey - "Look at it!"
James - "Nahh, that's not mine, it should be no biggy" And then I biked away. (Had I done serious damage I would've openly admitted it, but he was just trying to get money from me so I brushed it off, thinking back, very nonchalantly)

The funniest thing is this is exactly what I predicted would happen.

Taken from earlier posted '泰国‘；
"I bike downtown everyday, it’s about a twenty-minute ride. There are just so many people, I’ve come so close to so many accidents, it’s only a matter of time. Thankfully everybody drives slow, so when the time comes my injuries will be non-existent or minor, I’m more worried about my bike."

I predict it will happen again.

Don't worry Mom and Dad, I have something better than a helmet protecting me.