think your life is hectic? beat this.
my mom is in mobile, alabama right now. her house is being torn apart by a fucking hurricaine. she didn't evacuate because the hurriciane people said it would be hitting new orleans more than anywhere else. my uncle lives in biloxi, mississippi. he evacuated, thankfully, but he's coming home to no house and no car, because he lives right on the shore and everything there got ripped to shreds before being covered by 15 feet of water. my grandparents and my aunt are in baldwin county alabama, sort of near the coast, no word from them, I'm hoping for the best...
saturday night. my car broke down. while trying to figure out the problem on the side of the highway on-ramp we broke down on, we discovered the fuse for the radiator fan was out, which explains why the car had been over-heating. if we hadn't found that, we would've eventually blown the whole fucking engine. we found out the next morning that the problem was just the distributer cap, a simple and inexpensive fix. because the car had to be towed, the driver's side CV-joint was damaged. it already needed to be replaced, but now it's completely fucked. we were driving in the rain on sunday and all of a sudden the shit started acting up, so we pulled over. when we tried to move forward the car started bucking like a fucking bull. we had to drive home, not knowing whether or not the axle was going to disconnect from the wheel and total the car. we don't know how we're going to get the car to the shop. we don't know if our trip to rhode island this weekend, that we've been planning for weeks, is even possible.
I went to the community college and paid the $20 application fee. they handed me a course schedule and I looked at the tuition. in California, the community college I went to was $11 a unit. the average class is 3 units, meaning the average class costs $33 dollars, plus books or any additional lab fees. out here, it's $339.00 for a 3 unit class, plus books or any additional lab fees. WHAT THE FUCK? this is BUM-FUCK Connecticut, it's only so expensive because most of the fucking morons around here are on financial aid, making it IMPOSSIBLE for someone to afford the classes out of pocket. I'm not qualified for financial aid, because I have no diploma or GED. yet another reason why I completely ABHOR this place. hate is not a strong enough word to represent my discontent with this fucking place. I wish Reno never got a DUI, we could just fucking leave. love is expensive.
my car is fucked, I can't go to school, and I may have to cancel the ONE THING I have actually been looking forward to...but that doesn't even matter because my fucking family is in trouble. all my problems seem petty. my mom was supposed to fly to California tomorrow, out of the Mobile airport, because she's going with my sister and some friends to Burning Man. she's renting an RV, it's already paid for. I hope she can still make the trip, she's been looking forward to this for so long...
I rarely dish out sympathy, and I'm not doing it merely because my family is involved, but after watching like 10 hours of hurricaine footage on the news between last night and this morning...something in me has changed. keep these people in your thoughts, this isn't something anyone should have to go through. I think a lot of people died this morning.
saturday night. my car broke down. while trying to figure out the problem on the side of the highway on-ramp we broke down on, we discovered the fuse for the radiator fan was out, which explains why the car had been over-heating. if we hadn't found that, we would've eventually blown the whole fucking engine. we found out the next morning that the problem was just the distributer cap, a simple and inexpensive fix. because the car had to be towed, the driver's side CV-joint was damaged. it already needed to be replaced, but now it's completely fucked. we were driving in the rain on sunday and all of a sudden the shit started acting up, so we pulled over. when we tried to move forward the car started bucking like a fucking bull. we had to drive home, not knowing whether or not the axle was going to disconnect from the wheel and total the car. we don't know how we're going to get the car to the shop. we don't know if our trip to rhode island this weekend, that we've been planning for weeks, is even possible.
I went to the community college and paid the $20 application fee. they handed me a course schedule and I looked at the tuition. in California, the community college I went to was $11 a unit. the average class is 3 units, meaning the average class costs $33 dollars, plus books or any additional lab fees. out here, it's $339.00 for a 3 unit class, plus books or any additional lab fees. WHAT THE FUCK? this is BUM-FUCK Connecticut, it's only so expensive because most of the fucking morons around here are on financial aid, making it IMPOSSIBLE for someone to afford the classes out of pocket. I'm not qualified for financial aid, because I have no diploma or GED. yet another reason why I completely ABHOR this place. hate is not a strong enough word to represent my discontent with this fucking place. I wish Reno never got a DUI, we could just fucking leave. love is expensive.
my car is fucked, I can't go to school, and I may have to cancel the ONE THING I have actually been looking forward to...but that doesn't even matter because my fucking family is in trouble. all my problems seem petty. my mom was supposed to fly to California tomorrow, out of the Mobile airport, because she's going with my sister and some friends to Burning Man. she's renting an RV, it's already paid for. I hope she can still make the trip, she's been looking forward to this for so long...
I rarely dish out sympathy, and I'm not doing it merely because my family is involved, but after watching like 10 hours of hurricaine footage on the news between last night and this morning...something in me has changed. keep these people in your thoughts, this isn't something anyone should have to go through. I think a lot of people died this morning.