bone in sub

after riding to school on tuesday in post-freezing temperature, not only were my legs soaked, so was my bike. unfortunately, tuesday was a cold snap, so my entire bike (and the lock) were pretty seriously frozen. i had to use hot water to get it open again, but as i was riding down philosopher’s walk i decided to test the brakes – none of them worked. the back brake cable snapped right away. after some effort (and unsafe acceleration on the ice) my front brakes seized shut very quickly, throwing me off my bike. yikes!

my bike’s been locked up at school ever since. i’ve been a ‘plain old’ commuter ever since. i barely felt like a commuter when i rode everywhere since there were no crowds and it was really fast. i HATE taking the subway during the morning rush hour, the rest of the time i enjoy it.

i got home around 8 on wednesday, and proceeded to play online scrabble with some friends. we got into it, and i was yelling into voicechat when ‘my spot’ would get taken. shortly after 10pm my power went out. i actually entertained the notion that i was yelling so loudly about online scrabble that my landlady cut my power. little did i know that 25000 other people had outages. i went outside and saw that my whole street was off, so i gave up and consigned myself to an unproductive unentertaining night. i did clean my room pretty well (with a flashlight). my uncle called at around 8 letting me know his power’s out too, and that it seems like a pretty big outage (but downtown is still powered, so not 2003-level).

i went to bed assuming the power would be on after a couple hours, wearing only an extra sweatshirt as precaution. i woke up about 8 hours later, absolutely freezing, i mean shivering UNDER MY COVERS. i spent a couple minutes getting up the nerve to get out of bed, and unpacked a big duvet and added it to my bed. after that i slept nicely, but unfortunately it was so incredibly cold in my house i couldn’t bring myself to get out of bed until 4pm. that’s like a 17 hour sleep, but i guess the latter part of the “night” i didn’t sleep so well from the cold. went to school, played a concert, afterwards nobody wanted to do anything fun so i came home, expecting to spend the night at my uncle’s. my power was on, though, so i stayed here. the heat didn’t come on until way late! i think something is wrong with my landlady. she’s super nice, she just might have dementia.