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karriezaiSo I'm learning to drive stick finally. Danny's tried to teach me a little before but my heart wasn't really in it... I wasn't comfortable enough driving automatic yet to really commit to it. It's a lot to think about and adjust to. Danny keeps telling me to feel where the clutch hits the point you need to start hitting the gas, but I'm still better at seeing it when the RPMs drop. I'm told that his car is a weird manual, and if I can learn to drive it I can drive any manual... we'll see. Our driveway is a steep hill (speaking of which, I looked up at the mad security system for our house a minute ago and saw a white horse walk past the bottom of the driveway -- weird), and yesterday after I almost drove his car into a ditch because I was fighting between slowing down enough to turn and stalling, he had me sit on the driveway and go from stopped to first gear. It took a few tries, but I started doing pretty well at that. In the beginning it was very frustrating and I was close to tears, but at the end he told me I stalled way less than he expected...
So I've driven up and down Warrenton (street leading to our driveway, little to no traffic ever) once or twice, and today he had me drive through the parking lot from Target to Chipotle. I'm determined to actually learn this time, but I do want to start small, and I'm not ready to stall in traffic yet.
I'm also sick. I woke up with a worse sore throat than what I had yesterday and a mad headache, so I didn't go to class. I did go by school to drop off the last of my tuition status paperwork though. The woman wasn't there, but another lady found my file for me and let me sign my tax returns and leave the other stuff with my file. I stopped at the Diner and got a milkshake too. I've got laundry in the washer now, and I folded the clean clothes that have been sitting in a basket for almost a week.
I've got quite a bit of stuff due next week, so I'm organizing. I have to go to the library for any printing since this stupid residency audit for in-state tuition killed my black ink in my printer.
By Monday
*Print out GEOG lab at the library
*Read hardback ch10 and softback ch11 for PSYC
By Tuesday
*Call in birth control refill
*Read & write response to "The Theory of Complex Phenomena" pp 22-42, F.A. Hayek
*HONR219V paper
*Read Ourousoff, Nicolai. “A Forest of Pillars, Recalling the Unimaginable.” NY Times, May 9, 2005 and Green, Jesse. “At the New Jet Blue Terminal, Passengers may Pirouette to Gate 3.” NY Times, May 28, 2006.
*Choose a place (dorm hall, CSPAC entry, etc) and, like these articles, and take a page of notes following the line of these articles
On Wednesday
*Pick up birth control/get shot
*Interview at the gym
* Watch B.T. Jones film
* Read No drama plays
Lots to do... where to start?
ETA: Also, I went to room selection yesterday and met my roommate for next semester. She seems pretty chill, we'll probably have a relationship in the middle of the Joy-Laura spectrum... Laura being someone I chat with a lot when I see her, Joy being someone I really only say hi to. Her name's Deborah, she's 21 and a junior (we can have beer in our room o_O), and she's in Writer's House more for poetry than anything else. Which means I'll have to go outside my room for community about my specific type of writing, but that's cool. I need to do that anyway.
So I've driven up and down Warrenton (street leading to our driveway, little to no traffic ever) once or twice, and today he had me drive through the parking lot from Target to Chipotle. I'm determined to actually learn this time, but I do want to start small, and I'm not ready to stall in traffic yet.
I'm also sick. I woke up with a worse sore throat than what I had yesterday and a mad headache, so I didn't go to class. I did go by school to drop off the last of my tuition status paperwork though. The woman wasn't there, but another lady found my file for me and let me sign my tax returns and leave the other stuff with my file. I stopped at the Diner and got a milkshake too. I've got laundry in the washer now, and I folded the clean clothes that have been sitting in a basket for almost a week.
I've got quite a bit of stuff due next week, so I'm organizing. I have to go to the library for any printing since this stupid residency audit for in-state tuition killed my black ink in my printer.
By Monday
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By Tuesday
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On Wednesday
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* Watch B.T. Jones film
* Read No drama plays
Lots to do... where to start?
ETA: Also, I went to room selection yesterday and met my roommate for next semester. She seems pretty chill, we'll probably have a relationship in the middle of the Joy-Laura spectrum... Laura being someone I chat with a lot when I see her, Joy being someone I really only say hi to. Her name's Deborah, she's 21 and a junior (we can have beer in our room o_O), and she's in Writer's House more for poetry than anything else. Which means I'll have to go outside my room for community about my specific type of writing, but that's cool. I need to do that anyway.