most of my biking is commuting to and from work. i ride by a bubble tea place that is packed at 11PM and wonder why it is so crowded at night, but by a bar and think the same thing. at night everything should be closed and streets empty i suppose.

i'll get passed by a car that leaves slightly less room than others and get self-righteously upset only to realize that i'm fine and probably had plenty of room. but hey i don't have a roll cage on this thing.

for about a year i listened to Stravinsky's the Rite of Spring every night on my way home, trying to hum and rap my handlebars to the complicated and unpredictable rhythm. now it plays in my head automatically but in often disjointed or repeated sections that are my favorite of the piece.

lately i've found myself considering the effects of institutions on individuals within them, specifically those institutions featured in the TV show i'm currently watching, the Wire, and the ones of which I am a part. it's clear that institutions change people within them- but does it go both ways? my disconnected thoughts are often in the form of questions or pithy but ultimately shallow commentary.

often i consider ways my bike's performance could be incrementally improved (of course unnecessarily so)- if i just replaced the cables and housing it would shift much more smoothly. i should probably re-center the brake levers with the drops because now they're pointed in... but i guess it doesn't bother me, plus i'd like to see how far they migrate. that sort of thing.