A Journal of Sorts
"when they turn the pages of history when these days have passed long ago will they read of us with sadness for the seeds that we let grow we turned our gaze from the castles in the distance eyes cast down on the path of least resistance" ~ Rush ~ the challenges continue... I left work and considered not driving anywhere but just sleeping in the car cuz it's a 40 minute drive without traffic and over an hour with traffic and I only had 7 hours before I had to be back at work... but I decide to drive back to Florey's tonight to pick up my clothes and computer and stuff and then see how I feel tomorrow night about driving... deep breathes and yes, dees be challenging times... as if I'm not challenging myself enough, I'm delayed a half hour on the way home because I'm finally stopped by a cop for the headlight that is out and he tells me my car's registration is suspended and then comes back to tell me my NY license is suspended (and I have a Florida license, but I guess he checked NY cuz of the plates)... news to me... somehow I talked the cop out of giving me tickets (he was talking about four or five at least and in Florida, could have arrested me for the license... though my Florida license is good I think or he'd have kept it)... so I'm driving along thankful about the free passes I just got and how I am gambling driving at night (I leave for work before dalight and get back around midnight) and just about certain about staying in the car near the job the next two nights and as if I needed more incentive to be absolutely certain another cop pulls me over about the headlight... this one doesn't run my license or plates (or if he did he saw I had just been run less than a half hour ago) and just looked at my license and told me to get the headlight fixed... definitely some weird vibs that attracted two cops tonight (how long have I been driving with the NY plates and busted front light?) and yet somehow earned some respect, sympathy, or mercy from two, not just one, very nice officers... is 2001 finally starting to get better?... could be I'm sending out some good vibs or something... maybe I'm starting to look old and harmless and responsible... somehow, I don't know if that pleases me... and then, I do have the pony tail way down my back so I've got to figure it was a weird unlucky lucky night or maybe it was mentioning that I just started a job at a DJJ facility (well, they have one DJJ - Department of Juvenile Justice - ward in the place and I might work over there one of these days)... I've got to be thankful, since I could have been lost in jail for months since I don't have any money for bail and I'd have lost the job and been dead out of the water... so... tomorrow morning I hold my breath and drive to work and then the car stays there and I figure out some way to wash this body so it doesn't stink too much for the next few days until Tuesday when I try to get the Florida plates renewed... and the insurance is due as well, but it doesn't expire until next month so maybe they will not cancel (if they haven't already... at the rate I'm going, who knows)... so I've got five hours before I need to leave for work again... three long days behind and two more even longer ones ahead and then a more normal day and then maybe I'll take a day off and see about getting the car taken care of... I'll see about sticking a bulb in the headlight and hope it doesn't rain cuz it shorts out in the rain... and sleeping in the car in the rain will not be fun (and cleaning up and staying semi-presentable will be near impossible... I'm charging up my cheap old electric razor and hoping)... didn't I just say things were looking up?... sheesh... |
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