-I found a new Craig's List Bike Guy who came to fix my junker. For a ridiculously small fee he reattached my brake and claimed to fix my derailleur, but didn't. It's okay I don't expect miracles from Craig's List. Overall I am grateful to have a somewhat functioning bike again. But this clown that came to fix it doesn't wear a helmet, AND he wears headphones whilst riding on the streets in Chicago. I said to him "Oh, you forgot your helmet?" and he replied "oh.... um, no I don't wear a helmet." Then I asked "Oh, you don't value your cranium?!" Then he shot me a weird look and an uncomfortable laugh and skidaddled right out of my back yard. Nut job.

-The next day I rode said bike to the gym to SWIM. This is the first time I've used this gym's pool, and I'm not at all impressed with it, but wasn't quite as mortified by it as I thought I would have been. Upon leaving and riding home, the biggest monsoon/tornado watch/thunder and lightening storm struck. Go figure. I got sooooaked. I think it was God's way of telling me I should have swam longer. I also learned that my brakes don't work when it's raining after almost hitting two cars because I couldn't stop.

-I am off to swim in the lake (dry heave). Then back home to take a nap, then to my last night shift for... at least a month! Thank goodness.