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so the package that i sent via amtrak, the one where i had two days of free storage, got here yesterday. thus saith my brother, who took a message and forgot to tell anyone about it.

so much for the 2 days of storage.

so he told dad and i, and we decided that the best way to deal with this - since joel neglected to tell us yesterday, which would have been perfect cause dad drove in to work today - would be for me to drive mom's car - which would fit the box better - and call dad when i got there, so he could help me shift it, and then i'd drive back.
conveniently stopping by jefferson on the way home of course.

mom just got home.

i should have known.

apparently i'm not an experienced enough driver to drive in dc. i don't think i'll be experienced until i'm 40, by her reckoning. and only then if i've lived in the area for all the intervening years. also, she doesn't like the time constraint, and can't afford to have anything happen to that car.

oh, and she wouldn't want anything to happen to me either, of course. i love how that's always second in the listing. always. and she's said it many times.

so the decision is that my dad is going to find a coworker to help him drag the box to his office (across the street from union station) and store it there for the next few days until a more convenient time to take it home.

which of course will not involve me driving in any way, shape, or form.

conveniently keeping me from getting any more experience driving.
and also conveniently keeping me from being able to get out of the house at all tomorrow.

again.

as soon as she's asleep, i'm out of here again.

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went to ballston. cuz, y'know, i'm not going to be spending enough time in ballston once i start working there full time. it was fun, i wandered up and down wilson blvd and found an arts studio thing i decided must be andy's mother's studio. (don't destroy my illusion, eh?) bought gas cause the tank was almost empty - mom drove to richmond and back today.
i realized as i was driving back, around 3am, that i'd put too much gas in, and briefly entertained the idea of driving around until it was where it'd started, but decided against it and came home instead.
not that i did much, but at least i did not much somewhere other than here. it really sucks that i have to cheat to get out of the house.

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i was going to go grocery shopping with mother, but i was expecting a call from marcellus at 5 and wanted to go see shauna after that, so i ended up staying home, cause mom wasn't ready to go till 4.45. when i said i'd decided to stay home, she said, 'would you mind doing something for me?' oh-so-sweetly and batted her eyelashes at me. i said, 'what is it?' and had to stand there for a while she manufactured some job to occupy my time. grr.
and of course, she's not back yet, and i want to see shauna. i'd walk, but i don't want to wear sneakers and my sandals'll give me blisters. meh. i might decide to go anyway, or i might just idle till mom gets back and hope that shauna hasn't left to go do something else, or that mom doesn't give me another job to do.
::sigh::