On your left

these days, the kind of passing i prefer to do entails muttering "on your left!" and the production of massive wattage from my massive quads.
alas, the only kind of passing i've BEEN ABLE TO DO lately is the academic kind. like last night. economics pre-entry test: 82%. sweet!
however, my new academic life has been boring some readers, and i promise to keep things vaguely lycra-ish from now on.
the percentages will be as follows:
50%: my life
25% or greater: cycling
10% or less: mba skool
15%: other. usually obsessing about how much i love burritos or how much i loathe babies and dogs that play fetch.
so there you go. someone feel free to track this and graph it. if you can't, i am learning how. regression analysis, probability, price elasticity of demand (oh wait, that's economics), verteces, etc. yay, me.
so back to the "on your left" moment i had today. someone in a myfirstbeamer decided that they belonged next to the curb, and turned into my handlebars at a stoplight. i paid them back, inadvertently, by leaving a long scrape in their black paint from my sti lever. take that, noveau riche hoochie.
i then proceeded to go on a killer ride past monticello and walton school (starting place of the infamous jefferson cup road race). i was smashing it and felt so good! i guess 2 weeks of pure f-ing around while riding/running was just what the body needed. that, and i'm on a produce fast today: only items grown in albermarle county are in my body. i am practically buzzing with (temporary?) vitality.
when i was about 30 minutes from home i stopped to pet some scraggly-looking kitties owned by a local named leroy. he had a nascar hat on, and one eye that i believe he picked up off the jungle floor in vietnam after a mine explosion. this is not a sleight on leroy; he seems to be the mayor of his section of old lychburg road and was very kind. he offered me a calico cat and i declined, sadly. then he told me that he was about to leave for richmond for some bluegrass concert. he had won some tickets. i'm not sure if he won them in a radio contest, or intimidated some poor soul in a grocery store into surrendering his/her tickets. i couldn't understand all that leroy was saying, but he did remind me to be careful because people drive awful fast these days. however, he said, since he could see that my bike was fast he thought i'd be okay most of the time.
then i skeedaddled to the tech department at darden to pick up lappy. lappy had a clean install of xp pro. gone is media center. gone are my homestar and strongbad error messages. i must obtain them from the site again before next week carries me toward mba-oblivion.
in all, a good day. i even got to do some sunbathing on my patio. don't worry mom: i was laying on my stomach studying statistics. i am not in the south of france and therefore spared my neighbors a view of my buddha belly and what lies above it.
now, the only passing i have to do is my business math and statisics test. i can do all sorts of formulas, but my wee brain struggles with one of the building blocks: factoring quadratic equations. how have i gotten this far in life without a deep understanding of this?
on your left, business math and statistics. get outta my way.

bmw makes great cars, but the people who buy this one are just after that blue and white logo. lame.