Occasional forays into thought

Oy vey, I should have accepted the ride.

I just got back from having lunch with Glen to discuss the retreat tomorrow, and oh the things that can happen on that short little ride. I was bringing back two sacks of groceries for making sandwiches for tomorrow, as well as a case of drinks - the sacks were on my handlebars, and the drinks were in the side basket of my bike. Well...the side basket wasn't working right (part of it was broken and knocking against the wheels as I pedaled), so I took the soda out and bungie-corded it to the little platform behind my bike that the basket hangs from. I was wishing I had two cords, but I only had one. It looked okay though. Get back on my bike, start riding along a few hundred more yards *CRASH* all the drinks fall off the back and go scattering every which way in the street. Bummer. Get off the bike, lay it down, start picking up cans (two guys walking buy help me out), can't find one, find it (behind a parked car's tire), distribute the cans between the two plastic bags with the groceries, get back on my bike, hear strange sound. What's that? Look behind me - I forgot about the bungie cord. The sodas fell because the cord broke. Bad rubber I guess. Anyway, it's hanging off the side of the bike, knocking against the tire. Get off again, put broken bungie in the sack, think about other half of bungie, don't see it on the ground, look for it - it is kind of wrapped up in my rear tire/wheels/spokes/gears. Dig that out, and notice some kind of plastic thing that's broken on my wheel. Not sure what it was, don't think it was important, but I see the other end of the bungie cord - the hook of it was pulled almost straight. Uggh. Try spinning the wheel - it doesn't spin right anymore. So, I need to go get the tire trued again (if the tire isn't true, it spins in kind of a wobbly manner, which makes it MUCH harder to peddle).
All I can say is I should have taken Glenn's offer, thrown the bike in the back of the car, and had him drive me home.

So, that's what I've done today, how about you?

As usual, busy, busy, busy. Trying to get things done, but goign to take 5 minutes here to jot a little something. Going to see one of my professors at 4:00 about the assignment for tomorrow - a little xml encoding project. XML is weird - easy, yet hard at the same time. Leaning towards the hard side at the moment. I'll be able to do it I think, just need to work at it.
Anyway, life is going pretty well I think. Last two weekends were spent at the rodeo, this weekend is going to be a one-day retreat with Chi Alpha, next week a Chi Alpha conference, week after that Thanksgiving - then we're into Dead Week here at school. Coming up fast. Have a decent sized paper due this coming Wednesday, then a presentation on "Lover's Infiniteness" in my Donne class on Thursday. Should be fun. Need to figure out exactly what I want to do with it though.
Chi Alpha is tonight - should be quite nice - new person is going to be playing electric guitar. Thursday night planning a little get together just for fun. Watch some comdey down in the History Corner I'm thinking. Andrew's gooing to be gone next week, gallavanting around in the art museum in NY like the bum that he is. Classes? What are those?
Went over to Glenn's for a little while last night o check out Halo 2 - pretty cool. I liked the "territores" mode of game play. On the more intellectual side, I did get through one fo the books on my list this week - Sapho. Quite short, but at least it is a start. I was quite bored with it for a while - seemed like all she was doing was writing wannabe haikus, but then I got into it. A couple, more than a couple actually, I liked fairly well. I'll have to post a favorite or two on here sometime.
Well, time's up I think. Till next time...