it's moving day! i'll be back in iowa city! hooray!

not totally sure if timbo is 100% gone from the basement room but he's generally good about that stuff so we'll see. i think i'll wait until tomorrow anyway to officially move in. it's super rainy today and tomorrow looks like a better day to move my CR stuff in. i have to work tonight as well and tomorrow night but then i'll have three days off which sucks but i'll utilize those days to return the basement to its former glory (as in decorate, go through my old shit, and organize) and go get some job applications. i want another job in addition to my current one so hopefully i'll find something that's worth it. i guess there's open interviews tomorrow at a new bread store that's opening with an oddly high starting wage so i think i'll pop in there and get all interviewed up.

the forecast looks good for the weekend...a wee bit chilly but no rain so that's happiness. it'll be good for when scott comes to visit. hooray!

speaking of hoorays, i went to world of bikes in iowa city yesterday despite the downpouring rain to see if they had the bike i looked at at northtowne cycling in cedar rapids. wob is having a super sale right now and there's a gagillion employees on the floor wearing these horribly bright neon green shirts advertising the sale and with the florescent lighting in the store and the limited space it makes one almost need to pass out. but, for a change, an employee named ryan rode over and asked if needed help and i said that i wanted a bike that i tried in CR and he went off to try to find it. the computer said that it was in the store but he had to go through all the bikes on floor and in the basement to find it. i waited for a good ten minutes while ryan did his thing and then on the eleventh minute or so he started panicking and profusely apologizing to me. he made me feel like i was planning on hitting him which i wasn't, i swears. i had plenty of time before i had to be at work and it was crazy raining outside so i wasn't in any hurry. anyway, to make a long story shorter, ryanino found the bike...but it was in the sold bike section. boo! but ryanino found his manager and asked about it and the manager said that it was possibly a hold but if i wanted to buy it, then he'd let me have it. sure, i feel bad for the dude who put it on hold but it was the bike i wanted and on sale so fuck that. i put money down on it and happily they have a layaway thang there so i have 3 months to pay it off. so, that's cake. i'm sure i'll want to ride it once the weather is less crappy and cold so i figure i won't need 3 months but it's nice to have that option. hooray! bike for me!

i got the giant cypress in gray.



sure, it's a little boring to look at i suppose but once i put on the banana seat, handlebar streamers, and a white wicker basket on the front filled with fuzzy kittens that'll definitely jazz it up a little. i know it!

bike, bike, bike, bike! bike, bike, bike!