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robotech_masterWell, you'll notice that I haven't been saying much lately. There's a reason for that. Two weeks ago tomorrow is a date which will live in infamy. It's the date that I drove down to work one morning, zoned out into space, missed that a light was red, and slammed right into a car driven by a couple of old people at 30 miles an hour or so. Completely totalled the car, and the old folks had to go to the hospital in an ambulance. Didn't look like anything more serious than airbag injuries but that was bad enough. I was in pain that got worse through the day, and the next morning I went down to the emergency room. It turned out I had a "non-dislocated sternum fracture" and it hurt like the dickens; they gave me Vicodin for it.
The best car I ever had, not 30,000 miles on it...and I totalled it. The body shop said it would be $6,000 to fix it, even using junkyard parts. I'm without a car again, and for the last almost two weeks I've been kicking myself for how totally stupid I was. I had made all sorts of grandiose plans for what I might do in the time between my jobs. I thought about driving up to Champaign-Urbana to visit a friend of mine, or even all the way to Chicago to see my brother. But it was not to be. Right when I was all set to celebrate my freedom from the phone company...then this happened. It's like there's some kind of balancing force out there that can't stand to see something good happening in my life without kicking in something bad to counterbalance it.
So...I'm without a car again. Without the best car I ever had. And given my track record, there's no way that my folks or anyone else will help me get any sort of other vehicle to drive around in. Certainly I couldn't think of asking them. "Ride your bike," they'll say. And they'll be right to do so, I guess.
Trying to find the silver lining, at least this way I won't be spending so much on auto insurance and gasoline. The only problems will be finding out how to do my shopping and my laundry. As for getting to work and doing some light shopping, I'm considering picking up a motor scooter if I can get one for a few hundred bucks...something to get me to and from work without getting sweaty, since the bus doesn't go near it. I'm worried about the money situation, but then, what else is new.
Turning to the other subject of note from the week gone by, the end of my sojourn at the phone company came and went like any other day, I guess. There wasn't much fanfare; we just had to come in for half an hour and turn in our badges. Oddly enough, we were actually asked to get on the phone and take calls for the first fifteen minutes of it. I don't even think we were really necessarily supposed to be doing that...but they didn't know what else to do with us. We all said our goodbyes...one of the coworkers was hosting a party afterward, but I elected not to go.
It was kind of a funny feeling walking out of there that day. Combined with the car crash of the week before, it felt like a chapter in my life was closing. The next chapter stretches out before me, and I can't even read the chapter title.
I spent a lot of time since the crash being depressed over it. Still am depressed, I guess. And it's awfully hard to feel like doing anything, like cleaning one's room, when one feels depressed like that. (Also hard to clean one's room when one can't effectively bend over from pain.) My room has become a bit of a cess pool, which is something I really don't like. I need to do a concerted cleanup job when I can bend over...and tear myself away from the other thing that's taking up my time these days, which is City of Heroes. I've been pouring a good deal of time into the thing and have managed to get a character all the way up to level 27. A couple of other characters I'm playing regularly have made it to L15 and 12. I'm hoping to start brand new characters sometime soon to play simultaneously with a couple of friends who're also into the game. It promises to be some fun.
At the moment, I'm at home with my parents to spend yesterday evening, today, and part of Tuesday with them. I'm kind of ambivalent about this...it's nice to spend time with the folks, but I don't like being away from my own home...my safety zone. That goes doubly when I don't have my own car. I like to feel in control of some aspects of my life...and mobility is a big one. Well, I've got nobody to blame but myself (and blame...and blame...and keep blaming...sigh).
Got to see Spiderman II yesterday, with the folks. Man. I liked the first movie, but parts of it rubbed me the wrong way. This one...it was a bit slow for the first half hour or so, but it definitely picked up toward the ending. Much better than the first one. Tobey Maguire is Peter Parker. He just is.
At the moment, I'm in the process of waking up, sitting in my bed with my Powerbook laptop on my lap writing this entry. For some reason I just sleep better down here. Don't know if that's because it's a more familiar environment, or because it's just a lot quieter and darker out here in the country. Dad's in the kitchen making an omelet for breakfast (and probably not doing it without breaking some eggs). Aside from the fact that I can't play City of Heroes, it looks like it's going to be a decent day.
The best car I ever had, not 30,000 miles on it...and I totalled it. The body shop said it would be $6,000 to fix it, even using junkyard parts. I'm without a car again, and for the last almost two weeks I've been kicking myself for how totally stupid I was. I had made all sorts of grandiose plans for what I might do in the time between my jobs. I thought about driving up to Champaign-Urbana to visit a friend of mine, or even all the way to Chicago to see my brother. But it was not to be. Right when I was all set to celebrate my freedom from the phone company...then this happened. It's like there's some kind of balancing force out there that can't stand to see something good happening in my life without kicking in something bad to counterbalance it.
So...I'm without a car again. Without the best car I ever had. And given my track record, there's no way that my folks or anyone else will help me get any sort of other vehicle to drive around in. Certainly I couldn't think of asking them. "Ride your bike," they'll say. And they'll be right to do so, I guess.
Trying to find the silver lining, at least this way I won't be spending so much on auto insurance and gasoline. The only problems will be finding out how to do my shopping and my laundry. As for getting to work and doing some light shopping, I'm considering picking up a motor scooter if I can get one for a few hundred bucks...something to get me to and from work without getting sweaty, since the bus doesn't go near it. I'm worried about the money situation, but then, what else is new.
Turning to the other subject of note from the week gone by, the end of my sojourn at the phone company came and went like any other day, I guess. There wasn't much fanfare; we just had to come in for half an hour and turn in our badges. Oddly enough, we were actually asked to get on the phone and take calls for the first fifteen minutes of it. I don't even think we were really necessarily supposed to be doing that...but they didn't know what else to do with us. We all said our goodbyes...one of the coworkers was hosting a party afterward, but I elected not to go.
It was kind of a funny feeling walking out of there that day. Combined with the car crash of the week before, it felt like a chapter in my life was closing. The next chapter stretches out before me, and I can't even read the chapter title.
I spent a lot of time since the crash being depressed over it. Still am depressed, I guess. And it's awfully hard to feel like doing anything, like cleaning one's room, when one feels depressed like that. (Also hard to clean one's room when one can't effectively bend over from pain.) My room has become a bit of a cess pool, which is something I really don't like. I need to do a concerted cleanup job when I can bend over...and tear myself away from the other thing that's taking up my time these days, which is City of Heroes. I've been pouring a good deal of time into the thing and have managed to get a character all the way up to level 27. A couple of other characters I'm playing regularly have made it to L15 and 12. I'm hoping to start brand new characters sometime soon to play simultaneously with a couple of friends who're also into the game. It promises to be some fun.
At the moment, I'm at home with my parents to spend yesterday evening, today, and part of Tuesday with them. I'm kind of ambivalent about this...it's nice to spend time with the folks, but I don't like being away from my own home...my safety zone. That goes doubly when I don't have my own car. I like to feel in control of some aspects of my life...and mobility is a big one. Well, I've got nobody to blame but myself (and blame...and blame...and keep blaming...sigh).
Got to see Spiderman II yesterday, with the folks. Man. I liked the first movie, but parts of it rubbed me the wrong way. This one...it was a bit slow for the first half hour or so, but it definitely picked up toward the ending. Much better than the first one. Tobey Maguire is Peter Parker. He just is.
At the moment, I'm in the process of waking up, sitting in my bed with my Powerbook laptop on my lap writing this entry. For some reason I just sleep better down here. Don't know if that's because it's a more familiar environment, or because it's just a lot quieter and darker out here in the country. Dad's in the kitchen making an omelet for breakfast (and probably not doing it without breaking some eggs). Aside from the fact that I can't play City of Heroes, it looks like it's going to be a decent day.
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Date: 2004-07-05 10:00 am (UTC)