Near misses and near matches

Today I had the worst bike ride home ever.  Admittedly, I've struggled with keeping the tires filled up, I always seem to end up losing lots of air whenever I try.  And there was a bit of a wind, and I was feeling tired.  I figured this was responsible for my struggling to move faster than a snail's pace.  I seriously considered hopping off and walking, that's how bad I felt.  Looking back on it, that would've been a really good idea, since I would've been able to figure out immediately what was wrong, but no, I'm not a quitter!  No man or machine can best me!  Well, a combination of both almost did. In order to pull into the driveway that goes up to my complex, I looked behind me and decided that I had enough time to get over to the other lane to turn in before the nearest car caught up to me.  Apparently, I misjudged just how slow I was traveling, since I almost got ran over by that car.  There wasn't any honking, so I'm guessing that the driver wasn't paying as much attention as he/she should have been and didn't hold me solely responsible for what happened.  It was a terrifying couple of seconds, since I just couldn't get my bike to do what I needed it to and it just wouldn't move anywhere quickly.

What was wrong with it?  Apparently, the back brakes were clamped down, so while the front tire was moving normally, the back one was barely able to move.  This is the result of irresponsible bike lock placement, since I typically let it arrange itself organically, which ended up interfering with the brake line.  Hopefully I didn't permanently damage anything, since I already feel bad enough about torturing my poor bike.  At least I had on a cute outfit while doing so?

The near match for today was between the blue in my cardigan and the blue in my dress- in my closet they looked like the same color, but when I got to work it looked completely different.  I'm guessing no one really noticed (or cared), since I tend to dress a little differently from most of the grad students around, and it's a pretty busy pattern (also, neat-looking).  Both the dress and the cardigan I'm wearing are from Modcloth.com, which sells clothes that really aren't actually my size, but sometimes a really full skirt balances out the tightness of the top enough for me to gleefully throw the clothes on, and cover it up with a cardigan.