Life is life, no matter how you shoot it

I felt a good deal more wary riding to school this morning, after yesterday's mishaps. Though I am a good car driver, I think I might be a bad bike driver. Hopefully more experience will clear up these problems, but I am used to quiet recreational riding, but riding in Georgetown traffic is a good deal different. Cobblestone, narrow streets, clogged with drivers just as anxious to get to their destination as I am, and just as distracted. Is it any shock that mishaps look frequent in the offing?