Being Stupid

I biked to school in the rain today.  Worst idea ever.  I can feel myself getting sick already.  I shouldn't have stayed there for 4 hours in soaking wet clothes.  Biking home in wet clothes was awful.  I stripped them off, hung them over my shower rod, and turned on my mini heater full blast and sunned myself in the beautiful, beautiful warmth.  I also made the last of my emergency tater tots to give me an internal warmth boost.  Not sure if it worked so much for that, but it did taste nice and ease my immediate misery.

My hands were shaking so badly.  Biking in freezing rain in damp gloves is a terrible idea.  When I go to Florida this Christmas, I'm rooting out my leather gloves, my scarves, my boots and sneakers, and every jacket I own (well...some of them anyway) and bringing them all back here.  I had this airy-fairy idea that since Texas was broiling hot in summer it would merely have chilly winters, particularly since I'm only an hour from the Gulf of Mexico.  HA!  Next time I move somewhere I'm wikipedia-ing their annual climate statistics.

I think all my stuff has drip-dried by now.  I went out and bought thermals and a scarf so hopefully biking to school will be less painful in future.  Considering the respective merits of taking workout clothes (which I already own) to school for in-case-of-soaking-wet-emergency, or buying cheap pants and top at Wal Mart or something and leaving them at school for aforementioned emergency.  Alternatively, could take capris (which I am not wearing due to freezing, inclement weather) and leave them at school with a t-shirt and just buy a cheapo sweater.  Leaning towards the last option.  Maybe I'll get an "ugly Christmas sweater" from Goodwill.  It would be a talking point!

Mom called today to make sure I wasn't dead from the awful Texas weather.  She was cross when I told her about biking in the rain, but relieved that it's not sleeting.  Driving in sleet blows, I remember how much Mom and Dad hated it up north when I was a kid.  I've arbitrarily decided if it sleets I'm not going to class.  I'll wait for it to stop.  I'm pretty sure biking in sleet qualifies as torture under the Geneva Convention.

Anyway.  I have two presentations and a handout due Wednesday, a presentation due the 4th, and a huge paper due the 6th.  I should get back to them.