yesterday's worthlessness

actually, i ended up riding my bike downtown. i was going to go to the library and ch's recomended produce store (which is too far to walk to) but once i was on clark i decided to keep going. clark street is such a nice tour of chicago neighborhoods- edgewater, andersonville, uptown, wrigleyville, belmont, lincoln park, gold coast, loop... other than the bus it was fun, though very urban riding on the northside. once i got into the loop there were a scary number of busses (happy rush hour!) i just moved over into the center of my lane and stuck my elbows out and pretended i was a minicooper- a very small, yet worthy vehicle due her alotted space! it's much farther from my new house- i think i rode 10mi. all together. 9 to columbia, then another 1 heading north waiting for it to be late enough for me to take my bike on the el (forbidden during rush hour). the lake isn't nearly as nice heading north as it is south... and the wind is so bad! i was too tired to deal with it at that point. there was a game going on- the trains were so packed i had to let 4 go by. i eventually got back home, but god, those back steps are steep. any sore muscles i have today are from lugging that bike up the steps yesterday.