Today I went to the Anti-Cruelty Society to get “trained” for the Dog Adopts program.

Basically, my job will be to take the dogs out to walk and also help the people who are coming in to adopt them.

I am so looking forward to this. As I told Carrie when she picked me up “I’m going to come here every …

It’s not as bad as , but still making me a little shaken up.

I collected my first door prize this morning. I was riding down Wells, under the L tracks, which gets kind of weird. If you look at this picture, it will help the story:

See how there’s the area on the “outside” of the L tracks, where the …

Today began the great experiment of biking to work.

I managed to get here just fine…now, going home will be another story.

It’s a seven mile ride each way, and took me about 50 minutes door to door. If you want, you can check out my route.

Some things I learned:

1. When starting at 6:30 AM, being …