This week has been a dozy! Due to the bad weather, I was in a hotel all weekend and went to my first class of the Spring 2010 semester from there. I was a bit late and walked into a class that was is full swing. I grabbed a seat and started trying to catch up. The professor was talking about math problems. I suck at math and was not pleased. Plus, I could not for the life of me figure out what the stuff had to do with the subject I was taking: geology.
It was only at the end of class that I discovered there had been a schedule conflict and that was a statistics class! I then ended up haunting the science building for the next hour until my professor returned to his office. It turned out that the statistics class was in the wrong room. So I didn't miss anything. My next class was a few hours later, called HST 480Fashion and Gender, but it is mainly about the history and production of textiles. That is the class for me!
I have another large break between the textiles class and my next class, sociology. It sounds like that is going to be an interesting class. The Professor started off by showing a clip from the movie The Matrix, where Neo takes the red pill, and said we chose the red pill in deciding to take the class.
That was my last class for that day. I have the geology class Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the textiles class Monday and Wednesday and sociology on Monday. I have another class HST 428 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have had the professor who teaches it, Dr. Palmer, before. He is pretty cool and tries to make it interesting.
I got through class and was going to meet up with my dad. My birthday was last week and we were going to go to A.C. Moore and buy my birthday present, an electric ball-winder. I was driving on 5th avenue, and had the green light. I proceeded through the light and ended up being T-boned in the driver's side door by a car that had run the red light. We were both shook up, and she claimed that I had been the one who ran the light. There were no witnesses that came forward, so our insurance companies will have to sort things out.
I was lucky that I was driving the truck. The other woman, who is about my age, was driving a much lower vehicle. If I had been in a smaller car, or she had been in a larger one, I could have been hurt badly. As it turned out, I spent several hours in a neck brace in St. Mary's ER.
Also, my truck is probably totalled. It looked like the frame is bent. It is a good thing I got the refund from my tuition yesterday, because I may have to buy a new vehicle. Right now, I am playing musical cars with my mom and grandmother.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Full Circle
Big post due to recent craziness, starting just before Christmas. That weekend, I checked into a hotel because it was snowing like crazy and I was afraid that I would not be able to get to work. I ended up in the hotel from Saturday morning to Monday morning. And on Saturday morning, while still at work, I got a call from my mom that my grandmother had fallen down the stairs. Mamaw Mary was in a wreck in the early 90s and has a lot of problems with her right leg. So, I was plenty worried that she was badly hurt. Luckily, she was only bruised and banged up. She didn't actually fall down the stairs so much as she slide down them on her rear end.
As it turned out, the reason she was upstairs to begin with was because she had been woken up by the smoke alarm in my bedroom going off and the room was full of smoke. She called my brother to come out and call the fire deportment. They ended up tearing a great big hole in the ceiling to find the hot spot and put it out.
The power was already out on the road due to the snowstorm, and Mamaw got an electrician to come out. It turned out that her breaker box and the cord leading into the house were messed up and needed replaced. I know Mamaw is terrified that the house would catch fire again. She had my mom unplug everything electric upstairs.
While all this was going on, I was at work. I got a phone call on Monday morning at 9:30 from my area supervisor, Dave. They wanted me to watch an AEP site in Huntington to prevent angry customers from following the trucks onto the lot. I was to work this site for a week from 10:00 in the morning to 10:00 at night. I would, once again be working on Christmas. If nothing else, it gave me plenty of time to finish my Christmas knitting. I finished Mommy's socks and Mamaw's mitts and cast on for a sweater.
I ended up missing the yearly Christmas Eve party at Mamaw's, but my parents, brother and sister-in-law and my nephew got up early on Christmas morning so I could open presents with them.
Things mostly went back to normal after that, except that Mamaw did not want me sleeping upstairs, so I have spent the last few weeks sleeping in her bed while she sleeps with my aunt Charlene. That was the status quo until yesterday, when it began to snow again. It is not a big snowstorm like before, it has just snowed pretty much steadily since yesterday morning and is supposed to continue until this weekend. So, I am back in a hotel until Thursday morning. Here's hoping nothing else happens while I am gone.
As it turned out, the reason she was upstairs to begin with was because she had been woken up by the smoke alarm in my bedroom going off and the room was full of smoke. She called my brother to come out and call the fire deportment. They ended up tearing a great big hole in the ceiling to find the hot spot and put it out.
The power was already out on the road due to the snowstorm, and Mamaw got an electrician to come out. It turned out that her breaker box and the cord leading into the house were messed up and needed replaced. I know Mamaw is terrified that the house would catch fire again. She had my mom unplug everything electric upstairs.
While all this was going on, I was at work. I got a phone call on Monday morning at 9:30 from my area supervisor, Dave. They wanted me to watch an AEP site in Huntington to prevent angry customers from following the trucks onto the lot. I was to work this site for a week from 10:00 in the morning to 10:00 at night. I would, once again be working on Christmas. If nothing else, it gave me plenty of time to finish my Christmas knitting. I finished Mommy's socks and Mamaw's mitts and cast on for a sweater.
I ended up missing the yearly Christmas Eve party at Mamaw's, but my parents, brother and sister-in-law and my nephew got up early on Christmas morning so I could open presents with them.
Things mostly went back to normal after that, except that Mamaw did not want me sleeping upstairs, so I have spent the last few weeks sleeping in her bed while she sleeps with my aunt Charlene. That was the status quo until yesterday, when it began to snow again. It is not a big snowstorm like before, it has just snowed pretty much steadily since yesterday morning and is supposed to continue until this weekend. So, I am back in a hotel until Thursday morning. Here's hoping nothing else happens while I am gone.
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