Some days (most days) I sit at work and wonder, what could I be doing better right now? Is all the work I put into college ever going to pay off? Why didn't I nab a better internship while I was at school? Did all the methane gas released from the cows grazing down the road from my dorm room finally get to me?

Then I start to think about what all the strangely informative things this position has taught me --plasma gasification anyone? Drilling in the marcellus shale? Working in the PR department for a utilities company has definitely been an eye-opening experience. No, it's not the dream journalism internship I had always hoped to complete before college, but it has helped me become more aware of a number of issues any journalist would be happy to get some information on.

This got me thinking about all the little pieces of knowledge I've picked up during my life when I least expected it and made me wonder about all the pieces I've been missing when I'm too busy complaining to notice them.

Elizabeth Gilbert, the author who wrote Eat, Pray, Love, which has been adapted to the big screen and coming out next month (yay!), is also the same woman behind a story written for GQ detailing her gig at a bar called Coyote Ugly. As if you don't remember, this too was adapted onto the big screen... cue LeAnn Rimes song. All these stories from the same woman!

How? Well she decided to skip grad school, take random jobs in order to travel around, and just write about the people she met along the way.

How free-spirity of her. Despite my angst and thoughts of "I wish I could just do that" I realized there is a way to do this in my own backyard. Kind of.

While I am searching for what to do next as far as a career, I propose to get to know people, my surroundings and issues more than I ever have, by bicycle.

For a number of reasons, some interesting but mostly uninteresting, I have come to love riding my purple bicycle more than ever. From now on this blog will be about the discoveries I find along my bicycle rides.