Sometimes I think that someone is out there who exists solely to spite me. Not only did my not even 2 year old Honda Accord fail to start over the weekend, but 2 attempts to jump start my car didn’t result in any hint of activity in the car — no lights, no sound, nada. Obviously the next logical step would be to call a Honda dealership to have my car towed since it’s under warranty, but that, my friends, is where the motherf-ery begins! (Long story short: I was indirectly responsible for a broken water pipe in my apartment’s garage.)

All is going great until I get a call from the towing company that the dealership uses about the clearance of the parking garage my car is situated in — is it at least 9 feet? I check the clearance for the towing company — it’s actually 7 feet — and I ask if that’s okay. The woman with whom I’m talking to gives the phone to the tow truck driver who states that he’s sure he can fit and asks if I can just meet him there. Of course, I say yes.

Fast forward to a couple minutes later: the towing company informs me that the driver is at the garage and that I’m supposed to meet him. I walk around said garage for a couple of minutes trying to find him, but to no avail — I can’t find him on any floor or anywhere outside the actual garage. In the middle of informing the towing company this, the fire alarm in the garage goes off, and there’s a frantic hurry to evacuate the building. My boyfriend is with me, so he says in a joking manner, “Maybe the truck driver set it off!”

Of course, I didn’t think anything of the comment at the time, but it was surprisingly true — during the mess in which I tried to find the driver, we chanced upon a fire truck, water running down one side of the garage, and the truck driver at the scene. Oops. We later see the truck driver driving away from the garage. Double oops.

I never did find out what happened to the truck driver and if he was liable for the damages that he caused (that I indirectly caused?). Luckily for me, the towing company sent another driver out later that evening, and I had my car successfully towed to the dealership and fixed afterwards.

I also almost ran over a HUGE curb in the middle of the street as I was turning left at a light late at night (with 4 other passengers in my car…) because I have horrible night vision. I thank whoever is out there to spite me that they decided to go easy on me then, because it probably could’ve ended worse than worked up nerves.

But happy news! It’s been a long time coming, but I haven’t made a proper entry saying that Monologuing has moved to its own domain! I hope to expand monologu.es to a full scale personal site in the future, but for now it’ll boast a blog and a WordPress theme that I managed to make myself. It was a hard fought battle, but I’m proud of the results!

I hate rain, and I hate going to class when it’s raining. I’ve been in university for almost 3 whole years, and I’ve spent all three of them trekking through rain days to class, effectively ruining some shoes and suffering through cold feet. I don’t know why it took me so long to invest in a pair, but after ruining my black suede boots today I finally decided to! (This purchase was also accompanied by the purchase of a new pair of black Steve Madden Bonanza boots at a surprisingly cheap price of $44 from Amazon. Hurry while it lasts!)

Hopefully they don’t disappoint. These rain boots had a 4.5 star rating on Amazon, and I paid $70 for them (more than the Steve Maddens, oh my), so I’m going to be mad if it turns out to be a bad investment. But judging from the reviews on Amazon, I don’t think I have to worry about that……..maybe. Hahaha. I have an Amazon Prime trial account, so the boots should be here by tomorrow — I’ll be sure to update about first impressions. They’re getting here just in time, because according to Weather.com, it’ll be raining all next week. Oh joy.

Other news:

1. While I am no longer updating my Project 365 blog at my domain (I blame it on having to resize every picture, since the simple photoblogging program doesn’t do it for me), I am still uploading pictures for said project on my Flickr account. I’ll probably end up deleting everything from the former location and its data on my MySQL database server sometime in the near future.
2. Re: Gossip Girl – is anyone else severely disappointed by the current direction the show has taken since the first season? The first 18 episodes were so good, and mostly everything else was crap. I also just currently read a huge spoiler for the upcoming episodes, and I’m even more disappointed now. SO DISAPPOINTED.

My weekend was full oxymorons — fun and sadness; birthdays and death days; forget and remembrance. What was supposed to be a weekend celebrating a friend’s birthday had me thinking about a friend’s death that occurred a year and a half ago. The birthday girl tends to be an emotional drunk: in the middle of karaoke night, she started asking, “Where is James? Why isn’t he here?”

It’s quite unexpected how things can turn out in life; what you thought would come true never does, and what you never thought could happen happens. It’s hard to believe it’s been more than a year since James’ untimely death, but it’s quite easy to see the effect it’s had on us. While I can’t claim to be as close to him as his core group of friends, I was his lab partner in high school and shared a couple of classes with him during high school and college. And while I wasn’t extremely close to him, I’d like to think that I was a good friend — I  hope that I was at least as good of a friend to him as he was to me.

He would have been graduating at the end of this semester and going on to medical school. It’s a shame that the world missed out on such a great individual, but I know that he’s always watching over us. My friend said it best that night — “Stop asking questions. He’s here, he’s always here with us…..he’s always watching over us.”