4 posts tagged “driving”
Good! :
- My lunch! Let me show you it:
It consists of: quinoa, red lentils, black lentils, garbanzo beans, broccoli, white mushrooms, toasted sesame seeds, nori flakes, a little bit of ground flax, and a little bit of soy sauce. Yum. I am eating it as I type!
- I picked a topic for my Art of Research project! woo!
- Visiting friends tonight!
- Yesterday I learned how to use power tools. I now possess knowledge of how to use a band saw, a drill press, and a lathe. I am most excited about the lathe. It seems like my kind of tool. It and I have an understanding.
- Thomas and I will have been together for 2 years tomorrow. Pretty neat!
- I sort of hate to keep yanking things from Drawn!, but they featured another thing that I thought was really amazing and wanted to share. It's an animation made of paintings done on walls, graffiti style. It was done by an Italian street artist called Blu. Click here to watch it on his vimeo page. It is massively impressive.
Bad! :
- Working in the [um I don't know what it's called... the power tool room?] at school and inhaling large amounts of sawdust makes my nose all congested and dry. That is an especially bad thing for me because a dry inner-nose = nosebleed city. I woke up last night with a minor one. Maybe I should get some of that dumb nasal spray.
- While I will get to see Jeff and Ruth, I will not get to see Tommi, who will only be around during the time slot of my digital illustration class. :(
- Sunday was the stupidest driving day ever. I don't want to type out the whole thing, but just know that it sucked and that AAA is the Mario to my Princess Toadstool.
Neutral! :
- My hairs are getting long and I feel like I should cut them?
If I had died today, my last words would have been "Oh shit!". This is terribly disappointing to me! Most common last words EVER. So unoriginal! I should know better, having read Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates. And I call myself a Tom Robbins fan. For shame. I could have at least said "Wahoo!"
I'm the white one.
I got in an accident on the way to school. About an hour ago. My very first one. Both cars were totaled but it really wasn't that bad. It was scary, though. I am fine. The other woman is fine. My left thumb hurts, but that's all I can tell right now. I'm also a bit lightheaded from whatever fumes were causing that terrible smell in my car while I was fishing out my belongings, and I feel a headache coming on but that could just be caused by all the crying. I feel like a big stupid jerk. It was probably my fault. I left-turned in front of someone who was also doing something wrong, so we both fucked up but I probably technically fucked up worse or something. I feel bad. Day-ruiner. My poor car! My poor car that used to be my dad's. I learned to drive on that car. It's never let me down. I'm sorry, car. I'm sorry, woman who I forced to hit me, whose car and whose day I have ruined.
I hope my thumb isn't fractured. I have no idea what happened to it. It is very sore. Both of my airbags deployed (which was neat); all I can think of is that maybe my thumb was squished between the airbag and the wheel.
Stupid 911!! The first time I've ever dialed 911 and they weren't there when I needed them! I was waiting for an operator to be available for 10 minutes before the other woman's friend was able to get through and report it. What if I had been getting abducted or murdered or raped! Sorry, 911 is busy right now, you'll have to handle your emergency on your damn own. I can't rely on 911 anymore and I feel less safe in the world because of it.
Man I hope someone from my class drove by and saw me so they can tell my teacher what happened. I didn't skip class! I wanted to be there!
Should I tell you exactly what happened? It is difficult. Okay. I'm at the intersection, waiting to turn left. There is technically ONE LANE of oncoming traffic. Some vehicles are turning left, some are going straight. The light is green, there are no turn arrows. This particular intersection is always a bitch because of its wide lanes. When people are waiting to turn, everyone who wants to go straight squeezes over to the side of the turning people and passes them, creating two lines of traffic in what is technically one lane. Sometimes, to further confuse things, someone in the inside (turning) line does NOT end up turning and both oncoming cars go straight, and people don't use their turn signals half the time anyway so you just never know what the fuck is going on. So the light turns green and I creep into the intersection. There is a big van in the turning line opposite me, with no turn signal on. I pause. They pause. They finally turn on their blinker and begin to turn, and I think I see an gap in the people squeezing by to go straight, so I GO. I TURN. I get hit by the car that had been squeezing past the van at that moment. I hadn't seen it coming because there had been a VAN blocking my view/because I hadn't been looking hard enough. My fault. Fuck me.
All that went through my mind was "I am about the be in a car accident!" "I might be hurt!" "My poor car!" "I am stupid!" "OH SHIT" and then I said "OH SHIT" and that was that.
There are good things about this. #1: I'd been planning to fill up my empty-ass gas tank after class yesterday, but out of laziness I did not. So I saved some dollars. #2: I don't have class again until Monday, so I have a few days to sort out the not having a car situation/I won't have to bum rides off of my roommates or anyone else. #3: No one was hurt etc.
The tow truck driver was nice to me and dropped me off at my house. I thought he was going to leave my car here, but he didn't? He just left? I don't know where it is. I don't know what's going on.
I start moving tomorrow :). I keep getting rid of more and more stuff but I think I still have more possessions than can fit in that itty bitty room.
Haha, all of the yoga instructors at the Pasadena 24 Hour Fitness have names like "Roya", "Lehra", and "Yalda"; it's AWESOME.
So when did Lancaster people start driving like such maiacs? I narrowly escaped fender-benders like 3 times today, having done nothing wrong myself. I also pulled over at least 4 separate times to let various siren-wielding vehicles pass, which I take as a sign that danger is about. Why are people so craaazy here? I need to get oouut. -- HA, and go to LA, where it is 5x worse. But at least the heat will not be affecting people's brains so much down there, maybe? I can hope.
I got back from the Humboldt trip yesterday. My incredible driving skills got us there and back unharmed! I am almost surprised. (I only drove the wrong way down a one way street twice).
I am really kind of amazed that I was alright driving for 11 straight hours. I didn't know if I would be able to. But driving for several hours turned out not to be much different from riding in a car for several hours, the major difference being that I wasn't as bored because I had something to pay attention to. I got really into watching the movement of traffic.
We went to Humboldt State University's admissions day and Thomas, Jeff, Colin, and Tommi applied and were all accepted. They will all be going there next year. I will be here. or somewhere. doing.. something..
I mean, I could go there. Humboldt's second most popular major, after biology, is art. They have a big art program, apparently, and it isn't hard to get in. So it is an option. I don't know.
It was a good trip, anyway. I really didn't think I would be able to forget about some things that are stressing me out right now, but I was somehow able to put it out of my mind, for the most part. I was glad for the distraction.
