Thursday December 09, 2004

What a week, and it isn't even over yet. It was terrible. Where to begin...

I'll start with last Friday -- the day of my first final. I had to be at school at 8:00 a.m. for that one. What time did I wake up? 7:45. I forgot to set my alarm clock. I set it for the right time, but I didn't actually set it. By the time I sat down in class and logged in (it was my computer class's final), it was 8:06 a.m. That's making pretty good time if you ask me.

On Monday nothing really noteworthy happened. I took a philosophy final. I got an A on my paper in that class. The final didn't go extremely well, though. I think it would take quite a bit to drop me below a B in there, though, after finding that 60% of my grade was an A (two good papers and an A on my "class participation;" each 20% each).

Tuesday was terrible. First, on the way to school, I had a minor car accident. I was stopped at a stoplight on a pretty steep incline. My car sounded like it was going to die so I let off the brake for a moment to touch the gas. It's a standard so it rolled backwards into the car behind me. My insurance company decided it was my fault even though the guy couldn't have been more than two feet off my back bumper.

I'm not sure, but I think you have to stay a certain distance behind someone at a stoplight, and that distance is more than 2 feet. Anyway, no damage to my car. It wiped the dirt off of my back bumper in two or three places. That's it. The other guy's bumper was scuffed. He wasn't very happy with me, but I thought it was funny. We pulled into a parking lot near where it happened and got out to check for damage. I apologized and asked if there was damage to his car. He said something about me not knowing how to drive my car, then said, "Of course there's damage. This isn't a regular truck." It was a GMC Sierra.

I gave him my insurance information then went and took my geology test. I didn't do too well on that. At least I don't think that I did. I hope I didn't drop below a B. After I took that test, about an hour and a half after the accident, I went back out to my car to leave and suddenly the guy was behind me. He told me "they" were going to have to make a police report. He called the cops over his scuffed bumper for which I had already taken the blame and given him my insurance info.

The cop showed up and made us exchange insurance information, then let us leave. Well worth waiting around for.

Wednesday nothing really important happened. I took an English final and registered for the Spring semester.

Thursday, today, I took my psychology final. I did fine on it; hopefully made an A and maintained my A in that class. I lugged all six of my textbooks to school so that I could sell them back. But I forgot all the CD-ROMs that came with them. I was going to have to lug all those books all the way back out to my car, drive back home, get the discs, drive back, lug all the books back to the bookstore, and wait in the huge line that had formed. I would've been lucky to get off that easy, though, little did I know.

When I got back out to my car, I pulled my keys out of my pocket to unlock the door. The key I needed to do that and to start the car with was missing from the key ring. I dropped it somewhere because of that damn keychain. It screws closed, and it unscrews on its own quite often. A week or two ago I had two keys fall off the ring as I was unlocking the door to my house. I'm not using that keychain anymore.

I had to lug those books around, being locked out of my car and all, retracing my steps to see if maybe I would be lucky enough to stumble across a single key on the ground somewhere. No such luck. I had to bum a ride home, then get my grandfather to tow me later.

What a week. At least it, and the semester are over. Time to have a few keys made and then do absolutely nothing for about one month.