Three Unrelated Thoughts/Stories

** Yesterday I was driving to a graduation party, and I ran over a chipmunk. I came to this conclusion as follows:

• I saw the chipmunk wander into the road as I was approaching it.
• I heard and felt a thump-thump as I drove by the chipmunk at 60 miles per hour (it was a country road in the middle of nowhere).
• I looked back via the rear view mirror and the chipmunk was not moving.

My apologies to said chipmunk.

** When I go home from school and sleep in my bed at home, I find that my feet dangle over the edge of the bed. The beds at the dorms at school are extra-long twin size, so my feet don't dangle over the edge on those. However, before going to college, I never felt that my feet dangle over the edge of my bed at home.

** Last night, I was kind of lying around in bed for 2 hours not able to fall asleep (partly because of my dangling feet I think). As a result, I started to reflect on my life story, partly because seeing friends from high school kind of reminds me of past years of my life. Now, I like to think that I have a pretty good memory (especially for things like numbers), so I remember quite a lot about my life story. Now, I am not familiar with many other peoples' life stories, but after a while of reflecting, I came to the conclusion that my life story is pretty fucked up. And to that, I laugh. What else can I do?

Road Trip Back to Cornell

I actually tried to keep a count in my head this time through the 19-hour drive (while I was awake, that is).

-- Construction zones: 16 (there were maybe 4-5 on I-86 through the middle of nowhere in New York state. The middle of nowhere in New York beats the middle of nowhere in the Midwest because in New York there are things like hills and trees that you can look at)

-- Police stopped alongside the road looking to nab speeders: 9

-- Police stopped alongside the road who already nabbed a speeder: 6

-- Roadkill: 4 (rather low number it seems. Maybe mating season is over, and animals don't have any reason to get lost on roads)

Home

Hours I drove: approximately 8 of 19 total
Construction zones I drove through: maybe 6 or so
Police vehicles parked on the side of the highway looking for speeders: maybe 11 or so
Police vehicles parked on the side of the highway already with a speeder: maybe 7 or so
Animals already as road kill: lots
Animals about to become road kill: 1 (a squirrel was trying to cross a highway in Ohio, except the highway was separated with a median, so the squirrel was kinda stuck and ran back and forth in the road trying to dodge cars)

At one point it was pouring while I was blinded by sunlight - that was rather weird.