I took the subway yesterday (Friday) and had many places to go. In the evening, I attended the seminar on Urban Planning at Hunter College with the main attraction being Ray Delahanty, aka City Nerd from YouTube. He always gets appreciative audiences but this crowd was, as he put it, orders of magnitude bigger than everywhere else. The auditorium is very large, and it was absolutely full. The subject is rather academic and potentially boring, but the speaker makes it accessible and funny at the same time. There were also speakers from the City's DOT and Riders Alliance, a transit advocacy group.

So I got a ton of exercise walking. My phone and watch say that I walked 5 miles and climbed 28 flights of stairs, and I really felt it. City life can offer decent exercise just doing your regular life.

The elevator at my school has been out of service for a year or two. I've seen technicians working on it recently. We were apparently waiting for permits to come through, and that caused the delays. It won't be a life changing thing, but it will be an improvement. It might mean that I can easily bring my bike into my office which is on the 5th floor. But as it is, I'm pretty satisfied with the bike rack outside but there might be days when I prefer to bring it in.

There is another teacher who commutes there on bike. She brings her bike in, but it's a lightweight fixie. She parks it right in her classroom or in the hall right outside. She's clearly a badass cyclist, riding with no lights, no helmet, and no brakes. I'm not going to offer my opinion on that style. She saw me with my bike and said, "Oh you've got all the accoutrements," which is fair enough.