Things are looking up for me: I’ve got an Albuterol inhaler from the school doc to help with the whole asthma thing. I’ve even used it, and the effect was immediate and amazing. We’ve got a webmaster for the newspaper, and he’s definitely impressing me. This weekend is the Six Month Anniversary of Happiness with WO. The second new bike is in my apartment, ready to be assembled tomorrow night. (In case I didn’t post about it, the first one had a warped front fork and had to be replaced–except that they seem to just have rotated models, so it took a couple of weeks for another to be conjured…

Mae and I figured out the secret to college life at Rose today.

The interesting thing about having an SO is that there is (at least at this phase) much less motivation to reach out and share all of my thoughts with the world. One of the reasons I started blogging was that I felt like I couldn’t rope anyone into sitting down long enough to listen to me babble about all the minutae in my life–all my weird little theories about weird little shit that probably won’t matter in the long run. But now I’ve got someone to listen. I’ve got a best friend who thinks it’s cute when I run off on tangents researching things like the Terry Schiavo case (*shrug*)…

More details on the bike accident. Continue Reading *beep!* *squeal!* *thud*

I just got hit by a car as I was biking home from campus. An SUV. Luckily, they weren’t going at full speed, and I was back up almost before they were out of the car. Um, there was little damage to me (some nasty bruises). Their car has damage on the hood where I bounced off. My bike tires are both shot. I’m not quite coherent yet, so I’mma go lie down and scream for a minute until this all passes.