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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

kick butt on finals, guys. finish your FIRST semester of college STRONG. and then come home to me! :)

fyi, i am happy. i finished finals, did well on all of them, and finished my paper early today so i could go home before everyone else!

its just that... everything around me is breaking! my bro threw my laptop at the wall a few wks ago so now it stutters sometimes when it starts up. my camera suddenly stopped turning on a couple days ago. my phone battery isnt holding charges and the 9 button has trouble. [as in, today i called 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-1-1] and then, the icing on the cake. (or the anvil dropped on the cake.)
i was happily driving home, since i left early enought to avoid traffic, but there was still a little traffic on the 10E. stop and go. sooo all of a sudden the lady in front of me brakes, and i break kinda hard, but i stop in time - it wasnt even a close call. but as soon as im stopped, i hear SCREEEECH and then BANG! i pitch forward, my gps falls, everything falls, my hand hits the dash knob, and i didnt even realize until like 10 seconds later that i'd been rear-ended. i was in shock, i started shaking uncontrollably x.x since it was in the middle of the freeway, i was like crap i gotta get to the side. the car in front of me started pulling to the side and i tried to follow but i pushed the accelerator and it didnt do anything! my engine revved. i was like ohhh craaaap! but then i tried again and this time the car moved. there was no shoulder on that freeway so we were in an actual lane. apparently when the car behind me hit me, it pushed my car into the car in front of me. dude.
so we all got out, and i was shaking, and the guy who hit was like 'ARE YOU OKAY??' and i was like 'yyeeahhhh' and he said 'well, thats good. thats the most important thing.' and i asked the lady in front of me 'did i hit you?' and she said 'yeah, look!' and there were scratched on her bumper that were an outline of my license plate x.x but she was pretty sure it was cuz he hit me, it wasn't my fault. when i got out of the car, i walked back and my bumper was totally off. except for it held on by 2 screws on one side. so we exchanged information... license, insurance, name... but i forgot phone number/address :( my mom scolded me later for that. i was so shaky, i just got whatever info they wanted from me back from them. and they didnt ask me for my phone #! i called 9999911, and they connected me to CHP, who sent people. that came like 45 minutes later. so the three of us were just chillin. good thing that my first accident happened with pretty nice people, not hysterical or accusing or anything. the guy in back of me, his car was totally dented in the front. the highway worker guys showed up and blocked off that section of the freeway and then moved us further to where there was a shoulder. then they wired my bumper back on so i could drive home. the police did a report, and asked me a lot of questions that were kinda hard, like 'how fast were you going' and 'were you stopped when he hit, you, or stoppING' my brain was in a blur though. but yeah they were pretty cool, stopped traffic to let me back out and all. sighh. then, since the lady had given me some water because i was shaky, i had to pee. so i stopped at the next exit to find a bathroom. a mcdonalds. in the MIDDLE of LA. mm shady. and i got out of the car and this black homeless guy approaches me and i'm like 'sorry!' and i ran into mcdonalds. i didnt want to deal with more. asdfasdkalsdjalsdfa.
i finally got home at 5, really hungry and tired of sitting in traffic. [i was going to eat lunch when i got home!] i had to straighten everything out in my car...

but i'm glad to be unhurt but for the bruise on my hand. i'm glad my car is sturdy and protected me. i'm happy to be home and be done with my first semester of college!
i love you guys, cant wait to see you all! (will you drive me around? xD)

Labels: Kristen

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