Yeah that’s my supper. I was going to go to the uni town and get some delicious and addictive curry (have to fulfill my weekly craving…by the lineups at that place I’m not alone) but after a nap in the lab I was too cold and drowsy to get my act together. My knee is also feeling a little (just a wee bit) sore and my knees are like “my thing”. You know, that part of your body where as soon as there is some inkling of injury or pain you cancel all plans to spend the rest of the day tending to it and feeling sorry for yourself. My knees are that probably because they act up more than anything so it gives me plenty of “I should be easy on…” days. So the walk to get curry might have “irritated” my knee. Yeah…
I blame it on the roller bladder this morning. So I don’t know what the ettiquette is for being a biker and getting annoyed at roller bladders on a bike route. Is the biker supposed to appreciate the roller bladder because they too are using an environmentally friendly alternative method of transportation? Can the biker assume that they have right of way on the path (not even just a park path but a bike designated road lane) and that roller bladders being the slower ones should easy over to the side so that the biker may pass? This dude (or girl, couldn’t really tell) was taking up the whole lane. I was worried about passing him (her) because since I am so horribly unbalanced with inline skates I question the equilibrium of everyone on them. I finally saw an opening to the walking path and no pedestrians in site so I decided to scoot around him (her) that way and avoid pissing any drivers off. So get this, as I am about to get ahead of this guy (girl) which is proving somewhat difficult because I’m on the last leg of my trip, already cleared the 3 evil hills which turn my still weak legs to jelly and they can handly make me go anymore, this guy (girl) gets a sudden urge to increase his (her) speed to match mine (my legs are really sore) thus preventing my passing. I could have possibly really given ‘er but I was so taken aback that I actually stopped to let him (her) keep on going, waiting for another bike to pass, then got back on the road. Are some people just so competitive that they instinctual “go as fast”? This bothers me, mostly because of my warriness of biking around bladers - I am so scared I will make them wipeout. Anyway, that took a stupidly long time to tell and I’m not quite sure I have a point. I don’t want to say “bladders should not be in the bike lane” but I would like to know / decide that there should be some kind of courtesy or standard of what the bladder or biker should do in such encounters.
I should get to my presentation. I avoid these things like I avoided church in highschool. The upside being that I get all this other stuff done. I haven’t quite figured out what makes it so hard for me to whip up these slides but it just is. I’m making by the end of tomorrow my deadline. If I’m not done by then somebody please slap my hand.