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posted Thursday, 4 May 2006

Well.  The car is having issues with the exhaust system, so I took it off to the garage.

Four hundred dollars later, I guess I won't be paying those bills on Friday after all.  Also puts paid to having the bicycle fixed this week, because when the replacement bolt broke in the middle of Liberty Avenue I went over the handlebars and managed to do something slight but unfortunate to the rear wheel.

I have a skinned knee, a bruised palm, and a little scrape on my chin; it could have been much worse.  But Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, does this shit ever stop?

I have run out of people I can borrow money from.  I'm reduced to contemplating selling dishcloths.  I should drop World of Warcraft, or Netflix, or both, because I can't afford the extra twenty-five dollars a month.  What the hell am I supposed to do with this?

I am very tired.

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1. Megan left...
Wednesday, 3 May 2006 5:47 pm

I suspect that I can help fix your bike (unless, you know, the rear wheel has been totally Moebius'ed). I'm certainly willing to give it a try ...

(Glad you weren't badly hurt -- several of my friends from college still bear really nasty scars from taking that sort of header.)


2. Carrie left...
Thursday, 4 May 2006 8:03 am

Nah, you can hardly even see it; it's mostly that the wheel drags slightly every revolution that let me know there was a problem at all.


3. Wolfgang left...
Thursday, 4 May 2006 5:27 pm

If you were hurt...you should at least get a cool scar out of it. No point in going through pain if you don't have a souvineer to show for it.


4. Carrie left...
Friday, 5 May 2006 8:05 am

Yeah, you wanna know the annoying part? The mark on my chin pretty much covers the scar I had from when I was small and my mom pushed me down the steps. So I might not have that scar anymore once this one is done healing.

(The house I grew up in has cellar steps down from the outside. Mum was weeding along the edge, and I came up behind her; she turned to tell me to be careful and accidentally bumped me. The bottom of the stairwell was, of course, covered in gravel. I had to have 5 stitches.)


5. Wolfgang left...
Friday, 5 May 2006 10:21 am

Actually, you might end up with a scar on top of a scar....not that's cool. It would be even cooler if you were a pirate.

Is the accident why I haven't seen you and "the blond one with an odd sense of humor" in the afternoon when I am waiting for the bus?


6. Carrie left...
Friday, 5 May 2006 1:12 pm

I suspect it's just been timing. You won't be seeing me, at least, today either since I have to go pick up my car.


7. Wolfgang left...
Friday, 5 May 2006 2:01 pm

I like the fact that Pittsburgh is small enough that you can run into friends randomly fairly often...and yet large enough that I haven't run into any of my exes...well, except for one, and that's because she works at the Shape Edge and I love beer. :)