A lovely spring day in Montreal today. And I actually took adantage of it (no, not *that* way) and went outside, on my bike! For hours! I went out riding with a friend and it just sort of turned into an over-2-hour ride (yeah, we got a little lost, but who cares) around Verdun and Ile des Soeurs and almost over to Parc Jean-Drapeau - to get over to the park you have to cross this bizarre industrial bridge that seems to go on forever (um, because it's actually crossing the St. Lawrence River...) and then you have to bike up this peninsula-like tract of land for a while. While we managed the long bridge, we knew we weren't prepared for the rest of the massive ride, so we just went back the way we came, which was fine and dandy.

It was nice to get out of the city centre. We kept remarking to each other about how alien it felt, a different planet, as we passed through meta-suburbia and then into industrial lands and then into parkland(ish). None of which looked like the Montreal we live in and which we could still see way off in the distance, as one might see earth from a spacepod (adjusting for scale, of course). I took a few photos and perhaps will post when developed.

The rest of the day, well, the rest of the day was spent on-line, doing research and not doing research. Then reading. Then watching Lionel and Nicole Richie on Oprah (yeah, I cried a bit, whatever) and then eating and then webbing and then reading again. Very happily. Ah, nothing like a bit of fresh air to make the rest of the day spent inside seem a-okay.