I Called A Squirrel An "Idiot" This Morning

One of the many things I love about Minneapolis (that's right - I do love Minneapolis. I mean, Minneapolis is no New York, but New York is no Minneapolis. Do you know how fun it is to type Minneapolis?) is the abundance of biking options. There are bike paths straight through downtown. We have our own two-way lanes. Now here is a city that respects and loves bikers. Minneapolis drivers, however, have yet to be won over, but there's probably always going to be that biker/driver rivalry until our bikes finally become small hover-crafts. Wait - I would think the bikes would become hover-crafts first because they're smaller and cheaper, but would that take away the fitness aspect of riding a bike? And also the ecological aspect since surely you can't just operate a hover-craft on just pedaling alone. Okay, so, clearly, cars are going to get the hover-craft models first. Fine. That means us bikers will get the streets to ourselves.

Anyway.

I biked into work today. This morning was spent contemplating calling in sick (thanks to a mixture of beer, Sambuca, and sake last night, though I didn't really feel sick, just tired), shaking the residue of a difficult dream wherein I visited my newly separated ex-boyfriend from looooong ago and tried to reconcile my anger and disappointment in him with some wanton lust (what?), ignored my cat's cries for her second bowl of food, and juggling the choice between the bus and biking. Biking won because I know I probably won't get much exercise in this weekend and if I just bike 3 days a week, I can knock exercise off my list of things I have to do. (Yeah, the 30 minutes of yoga a day? Not happening. And I haven't even played the banjo in like 3 days. What?) And I wanted to ride into the sun along the quiet path of The Midtown Greenway.

The Midtown Greenway is one of Minnesota's rail trails for bikes and pedestrians only. It's located parallel to 29th Street South and runs for a long time, though I haven't biked the whole thing yet. But it's gorgeous. Especially now in the springtime, it's so green and it smells good and there's a load of people out there biking and walking and talking, but not too many people that you can't go at your own pace. After the Greenway is a little jaunt through a knot of freeway exits and entrances, but closer to my work is an easy bike path practically to the front door.

I arrived safely and 10 minutes early! But not before almost running over a squirrel and calling it an idiot because I was clearly coming down the path before it made the choice to dart out in front of me. Both the squirrel and I are safe, thank you.