bikes!!
it shouldn't have been this cold tonight. i just got back from a bike ride around the lake. i forgot how scary night bike rides to the lake can be, and why i hardly ever go there after dark. it's actually probably safer than most places in town, but it's just that feeling of being entirely alone the whole way. i saw a total of one other person, and that was within sight of campus. going around the lake itself isn't that bad, either...that gray-yellow sky is reflected on the surface and when you're on the far shore you can see the train go by but not hear it, only it roars by 20 yards away from you on the near shore. but going there and back is just weird. but no late-night ride can compare to the one i took in Huntington. 1 a.m. in some dirty industrial hick town eight hours from home, freezing cold January night, riding by the unlit train yard with a couple of drunk winos yelling at me as i rode past. scary. bikes rule.