It still makes me smile whenever I see another Yaris on the road. Not the half-size hatchback ones, but the ones like mine. They’re so cute!
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June 28, 2007 • 3:09 pm 1
super sad
I was sposed to get a car today. My dad and I’d arranged for me to leave work a few hours early; he’d pick me up in Hollywood and we’d drive to El Monte to choose and buy my car.
At 2 I get into my dad’s car in Hollywood, and only then does he tell me the salesman called at 11, saying he had “an emergency” and had to cancel our appointment. And apparently we cant’ see some other salesman.
I’m just super sad right now.
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June 24, 2007 • 6:37 pm 0
a good start
It’s beyond wonderful to not have papers to write! Or any kind of homework, for that matter. I’ve been working part-time at the Archive, doing data-entry work, and I might extend my hours because the work, while repetitive, is certainly relaxing and stress-free (plus if I am going to be commuting from Cerritos, I might as well stay longer than four hours a day).
The best part of what I’m doing right now is that once I check out of the building, I do NOT have to think about “work” for the rest of the day. This is the first weekend I’ve had in awhile that I could really enjoy without worrying about anything being due.
But I have to start thinking about designing websites and tutoring a GRE kid pretty soon. I haven’t worked at my Test Prep Company in so long, I don’t know how I’m going to get back into the swing of things.
And while cleaning my apartment in anticipation of moving out, and organizing my files, I’ve been mulling over projects I should be doing over the summer. Now that I think about it, there are lots of things I need to take care of. I need to:
- finish the bibliography Rails app I started back in winter
- Install LiteStep
- find an internship or two for Fall.
- watch at least one movie a week, in the theater, plus more TV shows and other things on DVD (aka career-oriented research)
- read lots of good books, using the term ‘good’ very very loosely. Only one month til Harry Potter 7!!!
- I was going to say, learn Dvorak, but suddenly I don’t think this is a good idea, since my current job involves serious data entry.
- Write Yahoo/Flickr an angry letter for losing the 129 photos I was supposed to have migrated, and which have yet to appear in my Flickr.
- figure out how I am going to pay for school next year, plus possibly buy a MacBook Pro, and a CAR!!!!!
Actually, that last thing, I am getting at the end of this week!!!! My parents are helping me out, because they want me to get a new car, and there is just no way I could do that on my own. So I’m getting a Toyota Yaris!!
I really don’t care what kind of car I get, as long as it’s one that can safely and efficiently take me from Point A to Point B, where AB > 5 miles away. Seriously since (and I never would’ve thought it possible to do this) I’ve lived nearly ten years in Los Angeles without a car – that’s how long I’ve had a driver’s license, but no car. Okay, so maybe I spent about four of those ten years not in Los Angeles. Still, 6 years in LA without a car is pretty amazing, I think.
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June 11, 2007 • 6:42 pm 0
if i’m blogging again, it must be finals week
One of the few perks of using Flexcar is that you get to try out different kinds of cars. Already I’ve driven a Scion tC, a Honda Element, a Corolla, and today I tried out a brand-new white Civic Hybrid, which didn’t even have license plates, it was so new (and, alas, no HOV sticker, not that I could’ve used it anyway).
This is my new fave car. The dashboard display is so futuristic and clean looking, plus you get to see the battery charging and stuff.
I was a little confused by the auto-stop feature, as sometimes it felt like I was going backwards instead of staying at a full stop. And when the light turns green again, the gas pedal takes half a second to react.
But without the AC on, I would’ve thought the car wasn’t on at all, and you do get great feedback from the part where the battery recharges using the car’s kinetic energy. or however the hell that works. I dont’ remember anymore.
All I know is, hybrids are great! I must’ve looked so smug as I zipped around on Sunset Blvd (I probably could’ve looked even smugger, if it hadn’t been for the blue flexcar logos pasted on the body).
(I’m adding a car category because I’m getting a car soon! It wont’ be a Civic Hybrid, but still, a car! It’s my end-of-June, half-birthday, it’s-not-an-iPhone-but-it’s-more-practical-anyway present. Hee!
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