why thursdays suck

It was raining today. You know, one of those, like, 10 days all year that it rains in LA. We don't know how to handle rain down here...we don't know how to drive in it, and many of us feel like our plans are deterred because it is raining. People in Seattle would laugh at us, acting like we are snowed in sometimes just because water is falling from clouds. I got pretty wet walking across campus. That was not cool.

There are these trees at school...I call them 'spunk trees'...they basically smell like, well, you know, spunk. And if you don't get what I'm saying...go figure it out yourself, it's too awkward to talk about. Anywho, these spunk trees have like little white blossoms that bloom once a year, and everytime they bloom, the surrounding areas around the trees smells like spunk. It's really gross, actually. So I didn't realized I had parked under one of these spunk trees at school today. And it rained, and then some of the white petals from the flowers on the tree fell off and stuck to the hood of my car because my car was wet. Dude, the tree came on my car!!!

I had to sit through three meetings today: 2 group projects and my business fraternity. I also squeezed class and work between there. In class, I was so bored I shopped online and bought myself some new jeans. At work, I was asked when I was graduating, and when my last day of work would be. I was also asked whether I had a job lined up for after grad or whether I knew what I wanted to do. Did I mention that that's the question I least like to hear at the moment? The answer is 'no, I don't know.' For the first time in my life, I have no set plans.

Someone asked me if my friend was my boyfriend today. I was taken by surprise that I said NO in a tone of disgust. I didn't mean it to come off like that. It's just like, wtf, really? Come on now.

I didn't get to leave school til 10pm tonight. I had to drive home, in the rain, in the dark through the canyon. That place just gets hazardous if it's been raining all day. Mini boulders and rocks come falling down off the canyon wall and you gotta drive around them or else your car could get a flat tire or some serious damage will be done to the undercarriage of the car. I had to drive over some small rocks...there was no way I could avoid it. I was on a curvy turn and there were cars behind me...I hate when I have to drive over them because then I'm always paranoid that I'll get a flat or that I've done damage to my car. And then if I get a flat, I will be all by myself, side of the road, in the dark, in the pouring rain.

So then I got on the freeway, and I was going 70mph. That's not that fast...or at least I don't think so. And I swear, I hydroplaned a few times...I didn't realize it initially...then I was like, whoa, I can't control my car, wtf? Oh shit! Hydroplaning is not fun, and not cool, and freaks the shit out of me.

Then I went to a gas station because I was getting really low on gas and the last thing I want to do is get stranded in the rain. So I went up to a pump and paid using a credit card. The gas nozzle didn't pump. And I KNOW how to pump gas. I've been doing it since before I could drive. So I tried 3 more times on my own before I went to talk to the attendant. I hate empty gas stations after 10pm. I always feel so vulnerable in places like that by myself. The attendant made me try again, and I did, and then I told him it seriously wasn't working, so he cancelled my card transaction on that pump and I moved to another pump that did work. Just because I'm female, it doesn't mean I don't know how to pump gas.

The other day I went to CVS in Malibu. There are some serious freaks, weirdos, and creepers in Malibu. I saw two bums fighting outside of CVS, like one was bullying the other. The only reason I went to CVS anyway was because I had a few minutes to kill before going to the Starbucks next door to meet someone. I had heard on the radio on the way to school that CVS sells at-home drug test kits and I was curious as to how much they cost and how they worked. So I wanted to find them...but I didn't find them. I was walking around some aisles randomly, thinking of buying jelly beans and one of the weirdo looking guys comes walking by. He stops to look at me, says, "Oh, you're really pretty" and keeps walking...I was caught off guard and kind of felt violated because of the way he said it. It wasn't one of those genuine compliments, it sounded more like he was a sexual predator/creeper and I was just grossed out. So then after he had walked like 15 feet away and I kind of was like in the "wtf" mode, he turned and yelled at me "WHAT? YOU DON'T SAY THANK YOU???" Uh...no. I don't say thank you to fucking weirdos, excuse you. So at that point, I decided that I didn't need jelly beans and it was time to leave CVS.


I swear, the most random stuff always happens to me.