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[snarp]

The first snow of winter was Saturday. My second major car accident was also Saturday. I was very lucky I didn’t hurt anyone. I didn’t even total it this time - Dad drove the car home today. It sounds like I just messed up the bumper, though I haven’t gotten a good look at it yet.

I did this on a bridge ten minutes from the airport, where I was going to to get on the plane for the JLPT; the police officer who worked the scene drove me up there. He told me that being a police officer had been his second choice to being a massage therapist. He complained that he’d been first in his massage therapy class, but ended up the only one not to get a job.

I got back at midnight Sunday night - Papaw had been waiting at the airport for me for six or seven hours, because he’d gone up to try and get in to see the car at five, but they wouldn’t let him. Papaw’s eye problems mean he’s not really supposed to be driving after dark, but I couldn’t drive the whole way because he still had to go home himself and take his medicine after he dropped me off at the house. I sat by the phone panicking and trying to figure out the most efficient way to describe places he might have wrecked to 911 operators until he called to tell me he’d made it back.

I also don’t think I passed the test.

I’m feeling vaguely mellow about the whole thing at this point, though I had several bursts of panic last night, which I wore down by intense periods of cooking, emailing people I needed to email, making fifty more kanji flashcards, cleaning the kitchen, bathroom, and litter boxes, and finishing my Christmukkougatsu shopping. But my energy is now gone. I cannot reach the kitchen to eat that stuff I made last night.

(Crossposted to SarahPin.com, Dreamwidth, and LiveJournal. You can leave comments at whichever.)

Comments

[starlady]

I give you major props for taking the thing, certainly. I guess I have to decide whether to take it next year, and what level to shoot for if I do...but not til next year.

Yikes, car accident. Good to know you're okay, and the car reasonably so.

[snarp]

I did not do well! Unless my many, many guesses in the vocab section were, like, miraculous.

[starlady]

That would, unquestionably, be my problem were I ever to actually follow through on my registration and sit the test.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

ack! I'm so sorry! I'm glad you're in one piece (?) but that sort of thing is really hard on a person anyway.

[snarp]

I'm just glad it wasn't worse. It could have gotten bad really easily.

[lacrimawanders.livejournal.com]

Wow. Glad to hear you're okay.

I didn't realize you were taking the JLPT...where did you take it?

[snarp]

I had to go to Toronto, because I'm an idiot and was too late for the US sign-up.

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

I am sorry to hear that. But I'm glad you're okay. Car accidents suck...I was the cause of seven in the first two years I drove...you don't want to see my insurance premiums...

[snarp]

Mom and Dad's are pretty horrible, too - I was instrumental in bringing about this situation. I've only been in one wreck before, but it was a really bad one.