Worus

Now Listening to: The Dark Cloud
Final Fantasy III: Eternal Legend of the Wind

Well. It has been a most eventful last three days.

Thursday I took my car to the auto place to find out what the radiator leak was all about. The car was parked in my parking lot at school, so I drove my sister’s car that day. I got to school early, changed out parking tags and drove the car over there with a little extra coolant in it. After I dropped off the car I had no means of transportation back to campus. So I had to walk ten to fifteen city blocks to my class on the far end of campus in negative thirty degree windchill. I got a call later in the evening saying that the car would need about a $1000 repair. Apparently, I had an external head gasket leaking. Or something like that.

I spent the rest of the evening discussing options with my parents and filing my taxes. I’ll get $403 back this year. So much for getting a head start on physics homework.

Friday I awoke sick as all hell. I had a case of the flu. The unfortunate thing is that I have not had the flu since I was a sophomore in high school. It’s been at least five years, so that kind of gauges the severity. Every time I would throw up, I would start sweating. It was absolutely horrible. I spent all day laying on the couch doing nothing, not even watching television, and I couldn’t satisfy my school-given caffeine addiction.

Good news did come later that evening, though. Josh found a mechanic at work that would be interested in looking at my car. So we went to get the car today. I was supposed to work, but I totally did not feel up to it. Considering I couldn’t even stand up yesterday without it being an enormous amount of energy, I decided that going to work the Saturday before the Superbowl would be bad. They would ask me to check, and I have diarrhea plus a still somewhat-upset stomach. This situation could have been bad.

I slept in, and later went to go get my car. I washed it for the third time in it’s life today. Well, really only the second time, since mom washed it one of those times. After washing, cleaning, and vacuuming the car we brought it home and put the final touches on it. As I was bringing it home, I decided what the name of the car was. It’s only taken me three years to figure this out. My red 1991 Cutlass Supreme was to be known as the Doom Cruiser. Considering the fact that every other part in the car is less than two years old, it seemed appropriate.

Josh’s friend came to look at the car this afternoon. Things were going good, and he decided to take it for a test drive. I couldn’t see him back out, but as Josh and I were standing there I heard the sound of a car being started. “Fuck,” I thought. He came back, and we reminded him that the battery had only been hooked up for like a day or two and only been driven twice. He made an offer of $350 for the car.

Mom and dad signed the title of the car over to Terry, and he gave me $350 for the car that, according to the Kelly Blue Book, had no value at all without a repair that was worth more than the car would have been fixed. I got a good deal, when you think about it.

As Terry backed the Doom Cruiser out of the driveway to take it, I started cackling. I continued to cackle into the shop area of the garage until the door shut–at which time I yelled “Sucker!”

This is the end of the Doom Cruiser’s history with me. It has plagued one other driver, myself, and now Terry. The Doom Cruiser had 156,135 miles on it and caused much inconvenience during the time that I owned it. Sucker.

So I’ve had a long absence from writing here. The four days has felt like an eternity. I don’t have anything that interesting to show for it, either.

Friday and Saturday I hung out with Dean. Friday we were supposed to go to a drag show at the Garden, but since I’m not twenty-one, I couldn’t get in. Instead, Carol, Daniel, Monica Lee, and Kim Pritchard all went without us. I don’t blame them, I would have gone to a drag show too. We tried to watch Ceres, which of course didn’t work. Dean fell asleep.

Saturday I worked the closing shift, which was a nice change of pace. I need to ask to do that more often, since being in school means I don’t get to sleep. After work I went to see Dean for about forty-five minutes. Then I slept so that I could work the opening shift on Sunday! Had sex for the first time in a long time on Sunday, as well. I seriously can’t remember the last time, it was some time at the beginning of break. If it wasn’t one thing it was another, from then on. Still, wonderful sexual relief!

Monday I got up late, since there was no school. I played Wild ARMS 3 for a little while before I got into the whole mindset of doing homework. I got cleaned up, and it was time to go see the house that Dean’s been looking at. I don’t think he’s going to get it. Afterwards, I went home and did physics for about four or five hours. I hope I’ve learned my lesson: start physics earlier.

Last night I was playing with a Jabber class in PHP. I couldn’t figure out from the Jabber protocol description how to get my own presence on the Jabber network. I figured out how to get my AIM, ICQ, and MSN presences, but not the Jabber one. I was too embarassed to ask the development people how to do it, but I’ll have to figure that out soon or just ask someone to write the XML for me so that I can play with PHP and Jabber.