Current Music: Madonna – “Open Your Heart”

Everybody look down. See that enthusiastic post about the bike? See it? Everyone? Yeah? Well, guess what… the right hand brake just broke. Splendid, I have the thing 24 hours and it starts ‘braking’ (LMAO!). So now I have to go get that fixed, which is going to be a pain in the @$$ because tomorrow we have orientation starting at 11, so I have to get up and go early to the bike shop… and then I just have to hope that (a) they’re open, and (b) that they can help me, because otherwise I’m screwed. Everything closed at six today, normal time (speaking as an American… I still think that’s way too early), and tomorrow is the special ‘exchange student’ day, so we’re doing stuff until literally 3 AM (well, not me, you can be sure of that! This girl’s going home to bed), and then Sunday everything is closed… and then Monday I need to be riding the bike to classes. (Well, one class: English Linguistics. Boswell doesn’t start till the 15th.) True, there’s still the left hand brake, but this is a very very old, probably about tenth-hand bike, and I really feel like the other one is also going to snap any second, especially now that it has to do all the work of braking. Sigh. Well… if you don’t see any posts for a while, you’ll know I died somewhere in Utrecht under the wheels of a car because my brakes failed. It was nice while it lasted… guess that’s what you get for 60 Euros. Scott paid 85 or something like that (what’s funny is, he has a girl’s bike and I have a boy’s bike) and nothing rotten has happened to him yet… we’ll see.

(GTST-mensen: “Dat betekent… dat het gevoel in je benen niet meer terug komt. Je zult niet meer kunnen lopen.” …And then they leave us hanging for the weekend. Argh!!!)

Goedenacht!