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Before I approach the story of the Fetish Ball, I have to talk about my commute into work this morning. There are probably very few subjects in the world less worthy of being written about than the act of going to work, but today was different because today I got on my shiny new bicycle and cycled into work.

Cycling from Sunland-Tujunga to Burbank is no small feat. It took me about an hour and fifteen minutes to do it, and in doing so I realised that a lot of the roads my Dad usually drives along to get to and from work are very, very long, but moving along them at a slower pace allowed me to take in much of the scenery, sights and sounds that I had previously not paid much attention to. I never really take in much of Sunland Blvd when we whiz down it in the car, but cycling along it I got to see some interesting things. There are a few houses in dire need of a good bit of work, for instance. A small row of houses absolutely stank of pot. And no, that really isn’t a large enough plot of land to keep horses on.

I’m still largely unfamiliar with Californian Traffic Law and how bicycles factor in to them, so I tried my best to adhere to what I remembered of British Traffic Law and hoped that would do me (obviously I decided not to cycle on the left side of the road). I was fairly relaxed, although I probably would’ve been a bit more relaxed if I’d had a helmet. Unfortunately the store I bought my bike from haven’t had any new helmets for a while as their supplier’s warehouse recently burned down in Mysterious Circumstances™, so my head is relatively unprotected. Well, I say “relatively”. I mean “absolutely”.  I’ll ask Dad if he’s willing to make a detour to Target on the way home from work today so I can pick one up.

Getting to work under my own steam was fantastic, and I can’t wait to get up tomorrow morning and do it all over again. I feel like my legs are going to fall off, but honestly I don’t think I could care less about it at the moment. I’d forgotten just how much fun it was to cycle long distance like that.