Well shit
Some days are better than others
Well today is not one of those good days. It isn’t the end of the world or anything just fairly sucky. Let’s start at the finish and work our way back. I am sitting here with a heating pad on my back in some considerable pain. Why you ask? Well on the way home from my day I got in a wreck. I was sitting at a red light on a major street when a 16 year old girl hit me doing about 45. Eloise is not too happy right now either. Her rear is fairly mushed. Not so bad to look at but she didn’t drive home well. I saw the car coming. I was looking in the rear view mirror and new that this kid wasn’t watching what was going on. What did I think right before her car slammed into mine? I watched in slow motion as that car charged mine and thought about how Kate seems to have gone. I had just a moment and I regretted that it might be irreversibly over with her and then BANG! Nothing mortal happend. Cut to a few minutes later and we have moved the cars off the road and into a parking lot. I called the police and made sure that the two teenage girls were ok. I then explained to the driver that if I had been on my motorcycle she would have killed me. That this was about as lucky as she was likely to get and that she needed to take some lessons away from this. Right now I have some serious pain in the muscles in my lower back and abdomen. The nausea is probably from the adrenalin wearing off. I always used to vomit after a particularly nasty bit in the old days. Just how my body deals with the adrenalin exit.
Rather than go into some other aspects of why it has been a fairly shitty few days let me tell you this. I am renting an apartment in Florence for at least a month later this year. I have some writing to do that really will require my being there. I think I’m gonna be near the Pitti Palace. However I may have to be near the Duomo. It all depends on how much I want to spend. It’s time to get back to the business of living and for me that means travel and writing. I may even take a job that a friend wants me to take in the Middle East. It pays about four years of my salary and would let me travel for a while. I’ll have to think it all over. I don’t really want to spend any time in a war zone but if I am a single guy really why not? I don't have anyone outside of family so I don't really have to worry about that. Pooh may have been right about things being better with two but if I'm gonna be alone then I am on the move. If you stop moving shit catches up to you...and apparently hits you from behind.
Later,
Sam
Well today is not one of those good days. It isn’t the end of the world or anything just fairly sucky. Let’s start at the finish and work our way back. I am sitting here with a heating pad on my back in some considerable pain. Why you ask? Well on the way home from my day I got in a wreck. I was sitting at a red light on a major street when a 16 year old girl hit me doing about 45. Eloise is not too happy right now either. Her rear is fairly mushed. Not so bad to look at but she didn’t drive home well. I saw the car coming. I was looking in the rear view mirror and new that this kid wasn’t watching what was going on. What did I think right before her car slammed into mine? I watched in slow motion as that car charged mine and thought about how Kate seems to have gone. I had just a moment and I regretted that it might be irreversibly over with her and then BANG! Nothing mortal happend. Cut to a few minutes later and we have moved the cars off the road and into a parking lot. I called the police and made sure that the two teenage girls were ok. I then explained to the driver that if I had been on my motorcycle she would have killed me. That this was about as lucky as she was likely to get and that she needed to take some lessons away from this. Right now I have some serious pain in the muscles in my lower back and abdomen. The nausea is probably from the adrenalin wearing off. I always used to vomit after a particularly nasty bit in the old days. Just how my body deals with the adrenalin exit.
Rather than go into some other aspects of why it has been a fairly shitty few days let me tell you this. I am renting an apartment in Florence for at least a month later this year. I have some writing to do that really will require my being there. I think I’m gonna be near the Pitti Palace. However I may have to be near the Duomo. It all depends on how much I want to spend. It’s time to get back to the business of living and for me that means travel and writing. I may even take a job that a friend wants me to take in the Middle East. It pays about four years of my salary and would let me travel for a while. I’ll have to think it all over. I don’t really want to spend any time in a war zone but if I am a single guy really why not? I don't have anyone outside of family so I don't really have to worry about that. Pooh may have been right about things being better with two but if I'm gonna be alone then I am on the move. If you stop moving shit catches up to you...and apparently hits you from behind.
Later,
Sam
posted by just sam at
10:47 PM
2 Comments:
Glad to hear you're ok.
As things progress, I hope you can find a job that is not as dangerous and yet still enjoyable..
DO
Thanks. The job isn't something I particlarly want to do but I am really good at it and they pay very, very well. If it pays for a year traveling and writing then so what? I've done worse for less.
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