Saturday, August 16, 2003
at 10:39 PMThat Which Is Good Is Bad
I went driving with my grandpa two days ago. We practised parallel parking and highway driving. I'm still too skittish. Oh, well.
Later that day Chris drove me to look at a 1991 Chevy Lumina. The owner wanted $1850 for it, but I decided afterward not to purchase such a vehicle, primarily because $1850 is the maximum amount I can spend on a car at this time. The risks, which are many, are too great. Chris made several suggestions, one of which being that I should perhaps bank what I earn now and buy a car (or put a down payment on one) later. His idea seemed more reasonable.
Currently, I can probably get to school via the St. Louis Metro bus system. Marshalls I can conceivably walk to if need be (it lies a mile, slightly more or less, from my home). That leaves the knife job and its transportation difficulties to hurdle. I can probably work there part-time, which I believe happens inevitably to most representatives as soon as school commences again, anyhow.
At Marshalls I receive two fifteen-minute breaks and one thirty-minute lunch break, during which time I have discovered I can set aside for much-needed reading of literature. High school drained me the past few years so that I spent much less time cultivating my voracious book-larnin' appetite than I did during elementary school and junior high. Today I began reading Thomas Wolfe's The Web and The Rock, which I purchased from Katy Budget Books several months back on an expedition there with April or Erika Patsy. He uses sensory images quite a bit (which I usually find annoying at best, but perhaps that's only when I read something for English class), which I find a relieving respite from the direct, unadorned language of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
