Last week I kept finding excuses to ride with someone. I kept not feeling like biking in to work.

This week I was thrilled to get on my bike and go.

The difference? This week I was in a teaching workshop called Connecting Undergraduates to the Enterprise of Science (CUES). I absolutely loved it. The CUES project is NSF funded and the goal is to add more inquiry elements into undergraduate science labs, which are traditionally cookbook-style, easy to do, no thinking required, no learning occurring.

For 3 days I didn't think about how mad I am. Now it's back to the lab, painfully keeping my mouth shut.

A lot of the CUES participants are cyclists. At the dinner Monday night, I ended up near some other cyclists, and a good deal of the evening was spent talking about biking. I couldn't help climbing on a soapbox when the lady next to me, who is not really a cyclist, talked about biking on sidewalks with her kids. Poor woman...I hope I convinced her to take the Road I course. So many people, including her, respond with "Well, I'll send my kids to Bike Pro." Bike safety isn't just for kids, folks.