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November 13, 2005
A Smashing Conclusion To The Best Month Ever
My left knee is swollen and tender, and I can feel where on my face I'm due for some bruising, but mostly, I'm ok.
I don't remember what I was doing or thinking before the impact. After colliding with the car ahead of me, my car tipped onto its left side and jumped three lanes left before the wheels on the right side returned to the ground and I could brake it. I came to a stop in the left shoulder. It took me a few minutes to understand what had happened. My glasses were not on my face and I remember thinking how stupid of me to drive without my glasses before I remembered that I had been wearing my glasses. They had flown off my face when the car crashed. I got out of the car to look at the other car. The other car (actually, there seemed to be two, though I don't know how the burgandy one was involved exactly) was on the right side of the highway, about 200 yards behind me. My car was smashed in on the passenger side in the front. No one was hurt, as far as I could tell, though, being on opposite sides of the highway, there was no way I and the other people could talk. I called Zuzka and Caroline and burst into tears.
Then the highway patrol came and the tow truck came and they towed my car and collected my information and the officer drove me to the Bart station and I went home.
I promised a more excited blog post today, but I've spent the rest of the day in bed, nursing myself with cigarettes and Desperate Housewives. I feel shaky and damaged and quiet. I'll write more tomorrow.
Posted by hissycat at November 13, 2005 07:18 PM
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please come home soon. i'll even take off work and we can drink whiskey and watch E! you don't need a car in new york.
Posted by: cheryl at November 13, 2005 08:00 PM
Oh no, that's awful. I'm glad you're okay.
Posted by: Karin at November 14, 2005 02:25 PM
Hope you're feeling better.
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