So I’ve been up past midnight for five straight days. Its starting to get tough, but I’m going to get some sleep tonight. I’m excited. I have a paper due tomorrow, but I’m sure that I won’t be pulling an all-nighter to get it to a finished state. I might even go to my classes tomorrow. I’m proud that this time I didn’t procrastinate… even though I am taking a small break right now.
My wife traded her broken car for my not quite broken one so that I can keep an eye on it until it goes to the shop. After the most recent repairs, costing another 13 C-notes, the shop failed to warn us to recheck the lugnuts for tightness after the next tank of gas. Note to all: whenever your tire is ever removed, you should always recheck the lugnuts for tightness at your next tank of gas. My wife heard a vibrating noise yesterday, but felt nothing in the car, so we wrote it off as a plastic piece flapping in the wind. Today, the vibration turned into the car shaking when she drove it. I tested it out and then looked at the front tire. There I spotted a lug nut had snapped off along with its stud. Of the 4 remaining lugnuts, 3 were extremely loose to the touch, and when I went to tighten the 4th one, it had siezed to the stud and it sheared off. Almost all of the lug nuts on the car were loose, especially on the right side, where another lug nut sheared off as I tried to tighten it.
My wife works 12 hour shifts and the friend she is staying with this summer has graciously allowed her to stay with her, so that in this last crazy week, I am not stuck watching our daughter until the end of her shift. But that means that I will have no car while this one is at the shop. Once again, the community at VLS comes through and a friend who just got his truck back from the shop offered to loan it to me until I get mine. I guess its better than having me crash in his living room…
Enough procrastination… keep it real. Law school is like Kinkos… you can do it, we can help. At least at VLS.
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