Work and Cycling

I biked home in the rain yesterday. It was a little bit chilly, but I paid it little mind. By the time I got home, my shoes were soaked through, my shirt was plastered to my chest, and I felt great! Until the moment that I hit a big, water-hidden pothole in the alley across the street from my building and bent my back tire.

I'll have time to take the wheel off and get it to the local shop for repair after getting home. I opened today, so I'm done at three. I've developed a headache over the last hour or so. I'm not sure whether it's from having my hair up with a stick (maybe it's causing tension I'm not used to), being a little short on sleep after getting up at five, or from eating too many cookies at the grand opening of a new student-focused space where I work. Regardless, it'll be nice to get home.

I rode a bus in Chicago for the first time in a long time. Urban train systems have always been easy for me to navigate - I think it's the linear topography - but I've been intimdated by buses. Google told me the quickest option for my departure time was train-to-bus, and it worked just fine. I *love* riding public transit and feeling like part of the greater structure and life of the city again!

Oh; and I met the archivist here today and she says she'll have things for me to do and I should come get a tour of the archives. Yay!