Conspicuous absence

Well, after a month of heavy marking and thesis writing, I had my committee meeting yesterday. I have a firm and fast deadline for the completion of my thesis... July 1st. The defence is anticipated for sometime in the last half of July, because one of my committee members will be in town then anyhow. It looks like I have my work cut out for me in the next 2 months. This is both exciting and terrifying to me right now. Back to work.

Car update

Well, SGI declared my car a write off and has decided it is worth $800, subtract the $700 deductible and I get a whopping $100 for my inconvenience. They get to sell the car off for parts and my $700 deductible. I feel absolutely ripped off now, more ripped off when the damn thing was stolen. The police are closing the case because there were no prints recovered and I am left to get another vehicle.

Thank goodness my parents are willing to help me out finding another junker until I am done school and making a bit of money and not paying tuition.

Some April Fools day...

I awoke this morning at 6:15am to the phone ringing. It was the city police. Apparently, my car was stolen and recovered before I even knew it was missing. It was found on the other side of the city when someone reported a suspicious vehicle parked on the street. I can get it back from the impound lot later this afternoon, but I guess a window is broken and there is damage to the steering column that will need to be fixed. On the other hand, how lucky am I that I will even get my poor little junker back... so many vehicles get stolen and the owner's never see them again, and the few repairs to my car is going to be less expensive than trying to replace the whole car.

Of all days too... I went and checked my spot to make sure someone wasn't just playing a joke on me. All that was in my parking spot was broken glass and the part of the steering column that the thief ripped off to hot wire it.