I've been on this planet for a wee bit over 28 years. While the first bit of that time was pretty non-productive, I've learned a lot of things over the last decade or so. I'd like to share some of my most recently acquired knowledge.
When planning car wrecks, you may want to avoid scheduling them 9 days apart. What's more, you may want to keep any of them from occurring the week before law school finals.
Backstory: I had a great time going to Ft. Collins with my best friend, J. The only coffee stain on the white blouse of my day was getting hit by a guy in a parking lot. He was backing out of a parking space next to one I was going into. J noticed he was headed towards us and I stopped. I watched the back of his head as his front end hit me in the driver side door. He wasn't whizzing out of his spot, he simply wasn't paying attention. This was on the 16th.
Then, on Monday, I was coming home after a nice game of racquetball with the Dancer when the guy in front of me pulled a U-turn. Naturally, I hit him. My passenger side front bumper smacked his driver side door. The kicker is that he has no insurance. He was cited for the incident and will appear in court on Tuesday to plead, and if he pleads guilty, probably to be sentenced. I still have to submit my restitution request for my deductible (which I have to pay), and I'm going to tack on an estimate of a car rental, since my insurance won't pay for that.
In the meantime, my car is going into the shop for the door incident tomorrow; the other driver's insurance has determined him to be at fault and is thus paying in full for that repair and for a rental car while it's there. I'll have to pay my deductible for the other incident, but hopefully I'll get that back with the restitution.
So heed my warning. Don't get into wrecks. And while you're at it, don't break your computer a week before finals, either.
I like to, you know, be helpful when I can.
[UPDATE: I'll be posting pictures soon, just so you can laugh at me and my sad, beat up little Nissan.]
Oh no, that sounds awful! I guess this is the point where everything has gotten funny as opposed to hopelessly miserable.
Sounds like you have everything under control. I know exactly how you feel though. Last semester right before finals, my car had issues and needed major repair, and in mid-sentence on the phone with my mom one day I just inexplicably started balling so bad she couldn't understand what I was saying. I was a mess.
At least this isn't happening during finals, but if I were you, maybe I'd go out during non-peak hours or something.
Actually, things are almost never hopelessly miserable with me. I just think there are so few things in life really worth worrying about. I think I came to accept that I couldn't really do anything about the most recent wreck about 0.013 seconds after impact. From then on, I pretty much shrug and deal with it. It's not fun to deal with, and I'd rather be doing something else, but there's no sense stressing about it. I find that life goes a lot more smoothly if one just takes things as they come.
This isn't to say that I'm not going to work to get my deposit reimbursed from the uninsured guy, but it does mean that if it doesn't happen I won't be devastated.