i just spent the last five minutes logging in and out of blogger. i would log in, click the “sign out” button, smack myself in the forehead and repeat. ugh.

anyways, i went out driving/riding with my brother (me in the Civic and him in his CBR600) and wow…talk about relaxing. no pressures, no worries, just cruising through the twisties with the windows down and playing a slow David Tao number. we went pretty south (to Lemont, if you know where that is in relation to my house) and i saw things and took roads that i knew not of…one of these is a really cool highway-style street that goes over the Des Plaines river. while i was on it, i glanced ahead and all i saw was forest and a few church steeples jutting out through the canopy. wai…maybe i’ll go back and take a few pictures, we’ll see. and then…like all things in life that seem to start off good, the sky darkened. the clouds looming overhead burst and rain fell. hard. poor Dan had to ride slowly back in the rain and he was pretty soaked by the time we got back.

as i watched the rain cascade to the pavement, i was reminded of the time back in the city when i was trapped outside in a thunderstorm and it took me an hour to get from westside to eastside. i freakin’ miss the city…and after reviewing the hundreds of pictures i took, i feel bad having taken it for granted. all the time i spent inside my dorm…i could’ve been outside taking in the sights and sounds and experiencing the city. i hate the suburbs…but oh well, such is life.