so bored and so tired..sigh..work. i'm gonna miss this gig though. i'mm subbing for a class right now, so that's another 25 bucks for just sitting on my ass. i'd almost rather be taking a nap though. it's my prep and i've worked for 6 straigt hours. yeah , i know, doesn't seem that long, but hell, teaching is tiring. especially when i have to lecture. right now most of the kids are just sitting around and talking. there's supposedly an assignment, but they don't give a shit about it. it's funny, you can sometimes tell how good a teacher is by how the kids act when the teacher is out. a good teacher maintains a good class, and the kids get used to that dynamic, so even when the teacher is out, the kids stay relatively good. my feeling about this class, the teacher has horrible class managment. doesn't help that their assignment is some openended bs assignment. i hate that as a sub. oh well...at least i know a 3rd of these kids, so the'll at least respect me.
waited in line for over an hour yesterda hoping to watch troy, but plans fell thru. ended up just renting videos at hollywood. gothica is a pretty damn good movie, and i HATE scary movies. but it doesn't rely on stupid ppl to move the plot a long, whichi think every bad writer resorts to.
so i'm going crabbing tomorrow, and then maybe karaoking at night. i havne't done that in so long. pity those who will be in my singing presence. but it's about time i get piss drunk and just let it all out. haha...backstreet boys watch out!
Wednesday, May 05, 2004
oh my... so guess who got in another motorcycle accident? sigh..this time it wasn't even my fault. i was riding next to lake merrit on lakeshore, and i was about to make a right turn to merge onto 14th street. there are two lanes in my dirrection, and i was on the left. just before i was about to enter the turn, the car on my right merged into my lane.i couldn't turn left into oncoming traffic. i couldn't go straight into the island and go over it into the cross street. so i just had to try to make a really sharp right. of course, there were these bumps in the road to keep you from switching lanes, so they prevented me from leaning more and turning more sharply. and i couldn't brake too hard on the turn or else i would've flipped. but of course, i flipped anyways cuz i couldn't avoid the island and when i hit it, my bike flipped and i'mm sure i flipped. it was such a weird feeling. i had maybe a full second or so to see the island coming and i knew i couldn't do anything about it. i don't even remember being in the air. just standing around afterward, wondering if i got hurt and looking for the cars that were gonna run me over. i didn't even remember the car that almost hit me; the fucker just drove off. some pedestrian helped me pick up my bike and looked me over for injuries. all i noticed was that me pants ripped at the thigh. another good pair of jeans ripped. sigh...i ended up just getting a nasty bruise on my thigh, a slightly tweaked shoulder, and scratches on my helmet. so i got really lucky. it could've been so much worse.
luckily, my adrenaline lasted long enough for me to hop onto the bike and ride back home. i can only go in first gear now though cuz the gear lever got shredded off. the right side mirror also snapped off. so i guess my bike flipped over too. so all this makes me think: do i keep riding? OF COURSE. freak accident. can this happen again? probably. all i can do are keep the chances small. ride safe i guess...sigh...i just wish i had a stronger desire to really care. i remember thinking afterwards: oh well...it's just money. bike will be fixed soon. i've had way worse injuries. no big deal. i wasn't even really mad at the guy who cut me off and drove off.
anyways, so i played bball on friday before the accident, and it felt good. i actually got my shot back for that day. i hit almost all my shots. and then i played again yesterday. and CRAP, i couldn't hit a thing. every shot was off, big clankers. no excuses dude....i really got to start shooting around to get my shot back.
oh, reminds me, so i'm at kaiser in sanjo on saturday, and i get xrays for my right knee. apparently i have a bone chip off of my anterior tuberosity? the doc then thought it looked bad and that i would need surgery, but she just called me today and says that i should check, cuz i might be able to go without it. knee is definately week though..don't know what i can do..i might acctually opt for the damn surgery...
