Annie Hartman
From: Seattle WA. Lived in Portland for almost 5 years
TRUNK: Hand made backpack by her friend, Cool Breeze
Inside TRUNK:
- New shoes made by “Keep”
- U-Lock for bike
- Wallet
- Phone
- Hanky
- Lip-gloss “Pink Lemonade” flavor (No bees wax)
- Bike Light
- Slingshot
- Broken sunglasses
- Stripped scrunchy
- Photo strip of her and a friend from Ace hotel
- Movie stub from “Up 3D”
- 3D glasses
- Clothespin
- Converter for headphones to guitar
- Chapstick by “Avalon Organics”
- Vegan Moccasins
- Sales tag for scrunchy from American Apparel
- Give away shirt from American Apparel
- Broken Camera stored in dirty yellow sock
- Portland Beavers baseball ticket from June 25th
- About12 broken spelt pretzels loose in bag
- Duracell Pro Cell Batteries
- Sharpie
- Prescription glasses (near sighted)
- Glasses Case
- Receipt for giveaways from American Apparel
- Black American Apparel hoodie
- 2 drawings
- .36 cents
D: So where are you coming from today?
A: Work
DP: Since you’ve been off, what have you done up until this point?
AH: Went over to my friend Hopeless’ house and picked up my new shoes
DP: Where do you work?
AH: American Apparel, I’m a back stock manager
DP: What does that entail?
AH: That means that I’m in charge of all inventory that comes in and out of the store and adjusting all of our numbers after people steel from us.
DP: Do you like the job?
AH: Yeah
DP: How far away do you live from your work?
AH: Um… 28 blocks
DP: Do you always bike to work?
AH: Yeah… no, I went through a walking phase a couple months ago.
DP: Do you always bring a bag with you?
AH: Yeah
DP: Do you find it to be a convenient way of transporting things?
AH: I would actually like Panniers eventually so that I could have even more stuff. I’d like to have the weight of my back so I wont get all sweaty and stuff.
DP: Do you prefer the backpack to the shoulder bag?
AH: I like the backpack the best. I do have a huge over the shoulder bag that I’ve had forever but no matter what, with boobs, and ya know… I have HUGE breast. It’s just really hard to pinch the latch shut over your boobs, which is annoying and then eventually it slips and it’s in between them… so I went for the backpack. Also that way it’s kind of like an equal weight to my boobs… on my back.
DP: What about a basket?
AH: I’d be down, but not on this bike.
DP: Do you have another bike?
AH: Yeah, I have two other bikes.
DP: What kinds?
AH: I have a Gianni Motta track bike, a Fuji racing bike, and this Bertoni road bike.
DP: Do you have a favorite?
AH: Yeah, the Gianni Motta, but I don’t ride it much because I crashed it really bad.
DP: When?
AH: Last year at the Velodrome.
DP: Are you racing this year?
AH: Not track but I am doing cyclo-cross.
DP: Is this bag big enough for all the things you need to bring with you, day to day?
AH: Yeah.
DP: What’s the most important thing in your bag?
AH: I’d say my sweatshirt.
DP: You pointed out that your moccasins were vegan, are you vegan?
AH: Yeah, since I was 17
DP: Do you find it easy to be vegan and live in Portland?
AH: Yeah, it’s like a Mecca.
DP: How do you feel about bag culture in Portland?
AH: It is pretty interesting what people do here, I mean the bags are so bright here and everyone sort of collages and personalizes them.
DP: Do you take a bag out with you when you’re not going or coming from work?
AH: Yeah, I have a smaller bag. I usually have it inside my backpack, but not tonight.
DP: Do you think that because bags are socially acceptable, pretty much anywhere you go, that people are more apt to leave their cars at home and find other ways around?
AH: I guess, yeah, it already seams like such a normal thing, here so many people commute by bike, and everyone’s got their bag.
DP: So I’ve got to ask what the slingshot is all about?
AH: Well I usually collect rocks but my bags cleaned out now because I just went on a trip, normally there’s like a million rocks in my bag so I can go shoot them off the dock into the river.
DP: How about random pretzels are those just snacks that got away?
AH: I still eat them, but the other day I had some bubble bath in there and when I ate one earlier it tasted like the bubble bath. So I think I’m done eating them.
DP: The adapter in your bag makes me think you play guitar, is that right?
AH: Yeah, I’m just learning.
DP: What kind of music do you like to play?
AH: Country songs, old country songs. I guess my favorite right now is one by Johnny Cash called “There You Go”
DP: What about between Willy Nelson and Johnny Cash?
AH: Johnny Cash, but I love all the songs Willy Nelson’s written, I got to say “Hello Wall” is one of my favorite songs but when Faron Young sings it
