Today I woke up in the morning, and wrote a post-card. Then I got on my bike, rode about 200m to a breakfast joint, and wrote a few postcards while waiting for food and eating. I biked some more, stopping at a post office to buy stamps, and at a gas station to fill water and buy more postcards. Then I found a spot to eat lunch, and wrote some more postcards. Finally, I got to Monticello, sat down in a pizza place, and, instead of writing postcards, I am writing this blog.
In some sense, it's just another ideal day of riding. I fell in love with the postcard format, and I'm comfortably settled in the way my blog is run, and my biking set-up. There's something strange about the mixture of low-tech and high-tech things I have, and I think I've found a good balance. I hope to be able to find this balance next academic year.
But what do I write? What's the post-card replacement? I could go to Chinatown every few days, buy some Toronto-related postcards and send them across the street to my friends, with messages like: "greetings from the exotic slushy-grey downtown Toronto! See you tomorrow." How do I keep such a positive rhythm, as the one I have right now, at home?
Today I biked for 100km over the course of about six hours.