Night Shift strikes again

[mousme]

Didn't end up getting out to MEC today. There's always next week.

Having a fun time with Anglo!Coworker. I'm replacing Litigious!Coworker who called in "sick" again (which is also why I pulled a double on Thursday) because she has a "rash." Gee, the fact that she starts a three-week vacation on Monday has nothing to do with it, I'm sure. :P

My co-workers are joking with me that I'm going to be able to buy my house in Alexandria cash down by the end of the year at this rate. :D

I'm going to take ankhorite's advice and start packing next week. Monday will be "Bring Moving Boxes Home Day," and after that I will pack a little bit every day for the next while. As long as I have the packing bug, I may as well indulge it.

This is my reminder to myself: I will NOT be as productive as I think I could be this week. Night shift always messes me up. I should NOT expect miracles of myself. One small accomplishment per day will be sufficient, thank you very much.

Took my bike into work again today, after taking yesterday off because of the rain. I am really enjoying the biking thing so far: it takes a little less time than going BMW: five to ten minutes going, and a good twenty to thirty minutes less to come back. Coming back is downhill almost all the way, and public transit takes for-freaking-ever on the return voyage. I'm really enjoying getting home by 23:00 instead of 23:15 and sometimes 23:30 if I miss the metro.

I believe that three times in a row means that I can now say that I am consistently making it up the hill on Courcelles (diggerlicious, I will absolutely take you up on your offer to visit one of these days: let me know what your schedule is like and we'll set a date!), and this makes me happy. My ass is no longer sore, and I do believe that I'm slowly getting into better shape. Sure, four cyclists blew right past me on that hill today, which was a little frustrating, but at least I didn't have to walk my bike at all. Hah!

One of these days, I will get my social life back. Just... not anytime soon. :P

Comments

[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

Wheny ou talk about the hill on Courcelle, you're talking about the one that goes up to the left of Home Depot under the autoroute, right? That's a pretty good achievement, making it up there consistently after about a week. Glad that the saddle sore is starting to fade too, it can be a real motivation-killer. Don't worry about other cyclists blowing past you, until you're wearing lycra everything and competing in national competitions it will always happen. These days I'm usually the one doing the blowing-past, but I still get mine handed to me occasionally from some sponsored lycra racer on a carbon fibre bike that probably weighs about the same as my pannier.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the hill I'm talking about. I take it from St. Jacques up to Ste. Catherine, so not all the way up the hill (not all the way to Sherbrooke, in other words), but I do take it up the steep bit past Home Depot. I'm feeling quite good about that. I also made it halfway up Atwater from Sherbrooke today (went to visit my parents), which was pretty damned challenging.

Slowly but surely, right? I'm not too worried about the other cyclists. I'm not in this for the competition, after all. It's just a little frustrating to be wheezing my way up a hill only to be passed by four cyclists who look as though they could easily be enjoying a smoke at the same time. ;)

I'm having a blast with this. I'm so glad I decided to try biking to work.