A random rant... It's raining today in Chapel Hill. Again. That's four days in a row. It was really hard to motivate myself to get out of the house and onto campus for management this morning. After class, which had a CPA as a guest speaker to teach us about accounting (sound dull? it was actually all right, for a talk about accounting.), I rode the bus home. I have about a block to walk along Airport Road (NC 86) from the bus stop to my house. Normally I walk on the dirt past the bike lane on the road so I won't interfere with bike traffic. I figure that today there aren't many bikes out since it's pouring, and since the dirt has been transformed to a muddy mess, I tried walking at the outside of the bike lane. Bad plan. I nearly got run off the road by about three different SUVs. I mean, I know they're big vehicles. I did drive one for a long time. Even so, I never had nearly as much trouble staying in my lane. I started counting. Of the approximately 16 cars that passed me during my 1.5 block walk, four strayed over the line into the bike lane. Almost all were barreling by at a speed much greater than the posted 35 mph. One honked its horn, though I don't think it was at me.

When did we all go and get in so much of a hurry that we forgot how to be courteous? What happened to sidewalks? There are plenty of them in this town, just not along my stretch of road. They're all in the rich white neighborhoods and downtown. For a city with such a nice public transportation system, we don't do much to ensure that riders won't be mowed down on their way home. Argh.

Today's Weather: Rainy and cold. See above.
Song going through my head: Some old CCR stuff. How random is my brain?  ¶ 12:36 PM