What? Driving already? Me? It's a scary place on the roads, particularly with all the construction that's going on near our house (I hope they fix our street going northbound, it's a piece of crap). There's a ton of stuff going on in a car slash on the road, so it's not surprising that I have to have an adult in the car until I've done fifty hours of this. It's intense.
... Also I don't want a car. Because they're expensive and they break down and that's expensive, too. But of course I'll need one. So, my conclusion: buy a truck because they're big. And in a pickup truck-versus-SmartCar battle the truck would be coming out on top.
School started again. I'm taking eight classes and one of them is AP. I'm actually worrying about that; the AP Calculus AB exam. Even though it's not for a long time, it does have a certain bitten-off-more-than-I-can-chew feeling. But it's going good so far. I caught a glimpse of the syllabus for the regular Calculus course that my school offers, and I'm sort of glad that AP Calc doesn't have a research assignment sticking out as the first assignment in the syllabus. Whew, dodged a bullet there.  I might graduate this year; that would be exciting. I want to go to MIT but I don't even know if that's a viable possibility. I hope it is, that would kick butt.


I like how it's been almost a year since I last did this. It still feels like it's, like, February or something. I'm still not used to it being 2009. That's really weird because I got used to it being 2008 really quick. Also every time I think about it, I flash back to those "No interest until 2009" commercials and I'm like, once upon a time 2009 actually felt like it was really far away. Time is an effing weird thing.