My thoughts are with Totoro.
I got in a car accident today. It sucks, guy blew a red light. Everyone is okay, but I am sore as can be on my left side. What stinks is that my car isn't drivable now, and I have to borrow family's cars to get to work, and I can't drive to Chicago to see my boyfriend now. It's hard, we have been doing this for 4 years now, and it never gets any easier. In fact it gets harder. We get barely any time together as it is, maybe 4 days a month if we are lucky. It used to be more, but both of us are so busy with our research fellowships that there are times when we are working over the weekends. I'm just really bummed and sore and irked that my car, that I just spent $518 getting repaired and tuned up, is now sidelined until a claims adjuster comes and looks at it. Then who knows how long after that to get it fixed.