There are many reasons I decided to drive instead of bike:
- Ma Johnson's Olde Fashioned Cold Remedy just hasn't seemed to do the trick, and every morning for the past few days I've woken up feeling sick. I have then spent the whole day trying to remedy it, only to have another poor night's sleep and wake up feeling sick again. So, as I have for the past few days, I had a terrible night's sleep last night and woke up feeling pretty sick this morning.
- It snowed a bit over the weekend, maybe a total of a few centimetres, and continued to snow throughout the day today. The snow is problematic for me because the options I have for my routes from the west end to the university are, in my experience, poorly maintained and can take several days after a snowfall to clear up enough to even be passable by bike. On top of that, the fresh snow covers problematic spots (i.e., potholes, mini ice moguls, deep tire ruts, etc.) that, when I can see them, I can avoid or adjust my riding style as I go over them, but when they're covered in snow they present a safety problem for me.
- Most of all, it's the last freakin' days of work before the holidays! When the holidays arrive, I'm flying back to my hometown with my daughter to spend the holidays with family. Traveling, dealing with my daughter's adjustment to a strange place, all the family commitments planned, and especially the several work-related meetings I have planned for that week back home make my "holiday" time anything but a vacation. So, my gift to myself this season is to sleep in a half-hour every morning, drive to work, arrive at my office with a large latte in hand, and settle in for a slow, lazy work day every day until I'm off on the afternoon of the 24th. I figure that, given the work-related meetings and continued dissertation research I have planned for my "vacation" back home, it's the very least I could do for myself.
