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so far this morning:
both lifts at the foot tunnel out of order. considered living in the tunnel until they were fixed, but lack of food was the deciding factor.
rearranged office furniture with kate. dropped one end of a rather heavy desk on my foot. (at least i had sense enough to put on non-open toe shoes first.) do not think it broke anything, just a very nasty bruise.
am considering whether or not swimming is a good idea. i brought my suit, and the pool is closed next week. will definitely call before i go, though, to make sure it's open today.

in which southeast trains set a new record

and not one of the good sort.
i biked into the pool to swim, and had a nice, relaxing time in the pool. however, i decided in light of the fact that my foot was unhappy just about putting a shoe overtop the bruise, i would bike to charing x and take the train home. i knew it was not good as soon as i got into charing x. normally there are large crowds, but not quite so dense. well, not that they were announcing this or anything, but apparently a person was struck by a train in the st. johns area. st johns is between lewisham and new cross. (map. *pdf) if you look at the map, that screwed up pretty much everything in light green. not sure why that meant it took over 20 minutes to get from charing cross to london bridge (normally about 5 minutes.) once we left london bridge, we didn't stop again until near st johns, and even that was only for a minute or two. however, dear reader, picture me on a sardine-packed commuter train, with bike. and the bike was not folded. i meant to fold it, but by the time i fought my way through the crowd to the gates and got onto the platform, i ended up running pretty much the full length of the train to the next-to-last car and getting on, because the doors seemed to be attempting to close. i also had the fun of keeping not only myself and my bike upright and stationary during this lovely train ride, but also the tipsy older businessman next to me who kept grabbing onto my bike handlebars to keep from falling over backwards.

and did i remember the ice cream after all this aggravation?
no.