Dateline 3/30/07

Well spring break is off to a very rough start. I think I did alright on my neuroanatomy practical this morning and we got to tour the mint without being hassled by homeland security agents. Also i picked up a Ikea dresser from someone moving out of my building. We also saw my new apartment with no problems other than getting stuck in traffic going there. Everything was going fine until me and my mother started heading out of Philly. We did not get far.

While driving up the Blue Route (I-476) towards the turnpike, the car suddenly stalled out. It just completely cut out while I was driving. Without much breaks or power steering, I was able to get it safely to the side of the highway, and we got towed about an hour later. Unfortunately it was now around 3:30 on a Friday, so the shop told us they would not get around to fixing the car until Monday at the earliest. At least the shop was at the end of a bus line that went right back to my apartment in CC. Of course this was also the bus that picks up the students from the Philly agricultural charter school, so I got an hour long bus ride with 50 high school students and my mother. By the time we got back to the city, my mother decided that she was going back to the hotel, and had talked my father into driving down and picking her up the next day. So the plan seems to be that I will stay in Philly and wait for the car to be fixed, then drive it back to Rochester. So I am not going anywhere at the moment.