bone in sub

i’m weirdly competitive about cycling. i’m in great shape and i ride a lot, so i’m faster than almost everybody when i’m riding casually, but when someone is going about the same speed as me i’ll make a special effort to pass them. or if someone’s about to pass me i’ll “floor it”.

last night i was going down harbord at maybe 11:45, when i would almost always be alone on that street. i saw someone else’s shadow right behind me, and it was kind of startling – i looked back, and yeah, there was someone on a bike about to pass me that i somehow hadn’t heard. the weird thing though is how i instantly knew that shadow wasn’t mine without even thinking about it, even though i was casting like 5 shadows (headlights both directions, streetlamps).

when derek was here he bought a weird little book that had a section on stuff like that, and it was fascinating. the ‘sixth sense’ of body heat, how you can tell someone’s in the room just by their radiated heat and how subconsciously you know whether leftover body heat (in clothes/chairs/beds) is yours or not, and if it’s not yours it’s undesirable.

i looked after dove again today. whenever i put him to bed he tells me he’s “making mini bed” and he puts a pillow and a blanket on the floor beside his bed so i can have a nap there while he’s going to sleep. i think his dad started this. he also puts his hand through the bars of his crib and says “my hand is there” expecting me to hold it. he does both of these every time, so it’s not remarkable anymore, but the last couple times i put him to bed i was really sleep-deprived so i actually fell asleep on ‘mini bed’ BEFORE he fell asleep. this time he wasn’t going to let that happen, once i held his hand he shook it really hard and said “wake up tyler”. this kid is 2 and a half, so funny.

there was a rehearsal today for a group my friend will is starting, “will snodgrass’ boomwhacker orchestra”. boomwhackers are pitched plastic tubes that you play by hitting things with them – the floor, your shoes, your knees, your head – made for kids to learn music on, but a bunch of music students can make hilariously out-of-depth-complicated stuff on them. first rehearsal, and only six people showed, but i think we’ll be able to get more to come after a little promotion. we played two “arrangements” of mine, piano phase (insane) and ‘my girl’ by the temptations. so much fun.