two dissimilar topics
Jul. 31st, 2004 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magicicadai try in my little posties to have some sort of cohesive theme. i write about what happened and then how i feel overall about the assorted events. well, this just hasn't been working for me lately. to be fair, i will now be discussing two different days. but they really don't belong in the same week, yet alone the same post.
thursday:
i had a heck of a time getting out of the house. every time i thought i was ready, i would realize that i had forgotten yet another thing. finally, i was in the car, door to the house was locked and i realized i was wearing the wrong shoes. don't mock, these were velcro sandals with a nice shirt/slacks, it really didn't go. i unlock the door, get my nice sandals out and put them in the car. i decided that i might as well wait to change till i got to work. because of all this, i'm running a little late. i'm not terribly worried, because the bosslady doesn't generally get in until 10 past and one of my other coworkers doesn't get in until 15 past. it's a fairly comfortable environment.
ok, i think it's time i get to the point, but before i do that, i'd like to state that everyone is fine. most of my commute is on I-540, a fairly new six lane highway. there is traffic on it during rush hour, but it's not terribly congested. traffic in the middle lane was fairly slow, so i went to move into the far left lane. i had been keeping an eye on the lane for a while for a good spot, signaled, checked the mirrors etc. as i started to move from one lane to another, i heard a blaring of horns. i scooted back to my own lane. as i looked in my rear view mirror, i saw a car spinning out in the median. i very very very carefully moved into the far left lane and then pulled off the highway to make sure she was ok. she has a jeep liberty, so it spun like a mad top, but luckily did not flip. i have no idea where she was beyond my blind spot. the front end was well smashed from the wire barrier in the median, but her air bag did not go off. i think she's perfectly ok. she is pregnant, so wanted to be checked out by her doc, but i don't think she did more than spin. yes, i do feel horribly guilty. i'm just glad everyone's ok. i have fully accepted that i should have been more careful. my pride in my perfect driving record has gone poof. there is some blame being assigned to the other driver because she did lose control of her vehicle so from a legal/insurance standpoint, there should not be many repercussions. i still feel like a louse.
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and now, friday. i had scheduled a half day in order to take my "everyone's return" final. for those just joining in, this is an intermediate level course that is extremely highly recommended for second year tax preparers. i tried my best to find a time i could take this course, and just couldn't manage. it's a 21 hr course and would have required a 1 hr round way commute in the closest possible location. so, i said screw it, i will self-study. last week, i had finished 1.5 chapters of 7 and decided that i'd better set the date for the test or it would just keep being a drain on my time for the EA course. i set the time for this friday at 2:30. i left work at noon, grabbed lunch on the way home and crammed the last chapter and a half while i ate lunch. i was more or less freaking. i had one chapter i had written off entirely and several chunks of memorization that i was not sure that i would have time for. eventually, time was up and i went off to take the test. i was preparing for something fairly elaborate, requiring tax tables, forms and calculators. i was rather surpirsed to find a simple 35 question multiple choice test. i still had a bit of a problem with it because there are some basic concepts that i have had a hard time pushing into my head. that and the fact that i was substituting a couple of weeks of cramming for 21 hrs of instruction. i like to obsess about the small things while i'm taking tests, so i calculated the number of questions that i could miss, and kept pounding at the test until my number of maybes was no more than the max i could miss. i hit the target exactly. i really would have liked to have a few questions to spare, but i made it! 21 hrs i won't need to be away from husband and baby!
it didn't even take an hour for all that high drama, so my next stop was day care. i haven't been able to visit sylvia during the day in forever and i've been really looking forward to it. she was outside playing so i couldn't watch her on the monitors, so i watched her through the windows as long as i could. i also got to talk with one of the teachers who i've only been able to see once or twice since i started working. eventually, sylvia saw me and i went out to play with her. i got to watch her dance and play on the slide and puzzle over her fellow toddlers. she really is adjusting very well. then, it was on for a little shopping. what can i say, i was trying to get in all my treats within a half day. sylvia was fairly happy to be pushed around in the funky stroller carts that they have at kohl's and i found a few bargains. the most vivid is a lime green blazer that is a bit bright, but should go well with hr block's green motif.
then we went home. it has been a long week and i'd kind of like it if next week could be fairly boring.
thursday:
i had a heck of a time getting out of the house. every time i thought i was ready, i would realize that i had forgotten yet another thing. finally, i was in the car, door to the house was locked and i realized i was wearing the wrong shoes. don't mock, these were velcro sandals with a nice shirt/slacks, it really didn't go. i unlock the door, get my nice sandals out and put them in the car. i decided that i might as well wait to change till i got to work. because of all this, i'm running a little late. i'm not terribly worried, because the bosslady doesn't generally get in until 10 past and one of my other coworkers doesn't get in until 15 past. it's a fairly comfortable environment.
ok, i think it's time i get to the point, but before i do that, i'd like to state that everyone is fine. most of my commute is on I-540, a fairly new six lane highway. there is traffic on it during rush hour, but it's not terribly congested. traffic in the middle lane was fairly slow, so i went to move into the far left lane. i had been keeping an eye on the lane for a while for a good spot, signaled, checked the mirrors etc. as i started to move from one lane to another, i heard a blaring of horns. i scooted back to my own lane. as i looked in my rear view mirror, i saw a car spinning out in the median. i very very very carefully moved into the far left lane and then pulled off the highway to make sure she was ok. she has a jeep liberty, so it spun like a mad top, but luckily did not flip. i have no idea where she was beyond my blind spot. the front end was well smashed from the wire barrier in the median, but her air bag did not go off. i think she's perfectly ok. she is pregnant, so wanted to be checked out by her doc, but i don't think she did more than spin. yes, i do feel horribly guilty. i'm just glad everyone's ok. i have fully accepted that i should have been more careful. my pride in my perfect driving record has gone poof. there is some blame being assigned to the other driver because she did lose control of her vehicle so from a legal/insurance standpoint, there should not be many repercussions. i still feel like a louse.
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and now, friday. i had scheduled a half day in order to take my "everyone's return" final. for those just joining in, this is an intermediate level course that is extremely highly recommended for second year tax preparers. i tried my best to find a time i could take this course, and just couldn't manage. it's a 21 hr course and would have required a 1 hr round way commute in the closest possible location. so, i said screw it, i will self-study. last week, i had finished 1.5 chapters of 7 and decided that i'd better set the date for the test or it would just keep being a drain on my time for the EA course. i set the time for this friday at 2:30. i left work at noon, grabbed lunch on the way home and crammed the last chapter and a half while i ate lunch. i was more or less freaking. i had one chapter i had written off entirely and several chunks of memorization that i was not sure that i would have time for. eventually, time was up and i went off to take the test. i was preparing for something fairly elaborate, requiring tax tables, forms and calculators. i was rather surpirsed to find a simple 35 question multiple choice test. i still had a bit of a problem with it because there are some basic concepts that i have had a hard time pushing into my head. that and the fact that i was substituting a couple of weeks of cramming for 21 hrs of instruction. i like to obsess about the small things while i'm taking tests, so i calculated the number of questions that i could miss, and kept pounding at the test until my number of maybes was no more than the max i could miss. i hit the target exactly. i really would have liked to have a few questions to spare, but i made it! 21 hrs i won't need to be away from husband and baby!
it didn't even take an hour for all that high drama, so my next stop was day care. i haven't been able to visit sylvia during the day in forever and i've been really looking forward to it. she was outside playing so i couldn't watch her on the monitors, so i watched her through the windows as long as i could. i also got to talk with one of the teachers who i've only been able to see once or twice since i started working. eventually, sylvia saw me and i went out to play with her. i got to watch her dance and play on the slide and puzzle over her fellow toddlers. she really is adjusting very well. then, it was on for a little shopping. what can i say, i was trying to get in all my treats within a half day. sylvia was fairly happy to be pushed around in the funky stroller carts that they have at kohl's and i found a few bargains. the most vivid is a lime green blazer that is a bit bright, but should go well with hr block's green motif.
then we went home. it has been a long week and i'd kind of like it if next week could be fairly boring.
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Date: 2004-07-31 08:54 pm (UTC)