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(Also known as “Shiro’s Bicycling Misadventure” crying )

So—for those who don’t know, summer is definitely my favorite season. I love to be out in the sun and the heat—my inability to produce my own body heat is such that I might secretly be a member of a lost reptilian race. You might think that this love of the great outdoors would mean that I must be a fairly athletic or at least ‘healthy’ person—unfortunately, the reverse is pretty much true sweatdrop

And yet.

And yet—somehow or another, I got it into my head that it would be fun to go for a little bike ride. I don’t quite know why. Maybe I just missed biking around campus? My beautiful, beloved, utterly flat campus... I mean, when people think of Oklahoma (‘if’ they think of Oklahoma stare ), they probably think of a lot of flat nothingness, and that’s pretty much how my university’s campus is (except with a lot of trees and buildings instead of a lot of nothingness). They probably chose the location because it was so flat, because it’s so ideal for building. But, the thing is… I live out in the country. There are actual hills out here. eek I mean, I know they don’t compare to the honest-to-gosh mountains on the east and west coasts, and they don’t really seem that bad when you’re driving on them…

But still.

crying Um, well... I made it about a mile and a half, at least. The roads here are laid out in a grid, and the original plan was to just keep turning right until I made it the whole way around one square—4 miles. burning_eyes Maybe if I trained for like a couple years, yeah… By the time I got back home, I felt like I was going to faint, or throw up, or spontaneously develop asthma, or possibly all three at once >_> So now I feel like I really ought to get myself a little more in shape—but I’m also a little afraid to try this again, especially because I didn’t have cell phone reception part of the time xD;; (‘Why’ would I want to do that to myself again?!)

emo They’re mountains. Trust me. *falls over*