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[rm]

Everyone at UPS is an absolute moron. Hopefully this thing will show up today. I dread having to communicate with them further. The irony is delicious, however.

Meanwhile, Alla Gossar really is like the greatest song ever. I am listening to it on repeat and thinking about the herbalism course I've been toying with taking on and off for nearly a decade now. Maybe this year. In other "learning to do crap" news -- 1 year, must learn how to drive, that's the deadline. It's a career necessity, much as I loathe the idea. It's also time to start thinking about where my next Difficult Trip of Emotional Significance will take me -- eventhough it's probably a bit over a year off.

When I was a sophomore in college, I blessedly got a single after an unbelieveable clusterfuck of a freshman year that involved rape threats, an editorial about my being queer from a straight "really, I swear, I'm okay with this" roommate in the school paper and a lot of other stupidity. The first two months, I refused to use the electric lights, and remember lots of nights sitting at my Mac SE writing papers in the glow and with the light of my ever so illegal candelabra thing. The moral of this story is merely, see, I was always this type of pretentious.

Finally, my hair seems to have finally figured out its current length and is no longer irritating me, although I'll be glad when it has an extram half-inch or so.

Comments

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

Pass on the info about the herbalism course?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have to dig up what the current deal is, but absolutely. I'm hoping they have a website by now, otherwise I'll send it along next time I go by the place.

[tearsinger.livejournal.com]

I just learned how to drive. I had been putting it off for almost 10 years.

I tried various things that didn't work and I hated even going near the car so much that I put off and cancled most lessons, but the way that did work for me was scheduling the test about a week and a half off and going driving 1-3 hours each day until the test. I passed first time and with a deadline like that and money already spent I couldn't put it off.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I was 33 when I learned to drive. I stopped a couple of years later and have largely forgotten how. Why do you need to learn to drive?

[rm.livejournal.com]

- can't do car commercials without a license even if you are not portrayed in or near a vehicle.
- Los Angeles
- self-reliance

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Definitely agreed about LA. Relying upon Aaron's car and driving when we lived in LA meant that I had to take the bus a great deal, and I cannot recommend that particular experience to anyone. I don't mind taking public transport, except in most of the midwest (where it is effectively useless) or LA (where it is both almost useless and somewhat vile).

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

Huh. I never learned how to drive either. You and I have such strange points of confluence.

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

I'm curious why you loathe the idea, given the one reason (self reliance) you stated as to why you think you must learn. The work stuff, yeah, that's an added benefit certainly. But the independence it offers I should think would suit you, even if you never buy a car.

I'm currently teaching synapticdreams how to drive, and he's in his mid 20's. I can see how it would feel challenging to learn, in that you're handling something potentially lethal but yet it's just a mechanical contrivance that you ought to be able to master.

Jeez, just watch traffic for a few minutes and you'll begin to think "if THEY can legally drive, this oughtta be a piece of cake!"

With some of the acting gigs, if a drivers license is necessary for that, I wonder about horse riding? Which I believe you know how, or at least did take a few lessons in, yes? What about motorcycles? Around here we have training classes that provide everything for those, all they require is you wear long sleeves and some kind of boot that protects your ankle. Just a thought.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I don't have any particular aversion to driving other than as an icon of all things I do not aspire to. Honestly, it's that learning how to drive in NYC is expensive and time-consuming and I do not even know anyone from whom I could borrow a car in order to take my test to get licensed. It's a profound clusterfuck.

[lllvis.livejournal.com]

ah, I see. Yes, classes are a bit pricey, but the benefit of those is typically they will teach you what your local DPS will want to see on a driving test, whilst learning from an individual can easily teach you some bad habits/things the DPS really won't want to see on a driving test!

Well, if you make it back through Texas anytime soon, you're welcome to log some wheel time in mine...

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

I learned to drive in two weeks when I was 21. I hated it. Thank god for this city where I don't have to.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

Tangentially, I just read a fabulous short story you may "enjoy" called "Expensive Trips Nowhere."