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Well, I have arrived at home safely, for those of you who were wondering.  I was here yesterday, but I never felt like writing anything on here, so I didn’t ;).

The drive was going good up until the North Carolina/VA border…. at which point my front right tire decided to burst for no apparent reason whilst I was going 80 mph.  A sharp jerk to the right and burning rubber signalled to me that I should pull over, which, luckily, was easy to do since there were no cars immediately around me.  In the process of changing the tire I found out my jack sucked, for it broke.  So I had to call a wrecker service, because the jack of the one person who actually stopped to help after I sat there looking pathetic for a half hour didn’t fit my car…..  and neither did the one the cop that eventually stopped.  So yeah… eventually the wrecker service guy came and lifted the car and changed the tire, but I don’t have a real tire for a spare, just a stupid donut… so since it was Sunday night, there was no hope of finding ANYWHERE that I could get a tire.  So I was stuck in Emporia, VA for the night.  Also, after the tire was changed, I had NO room in my car for the wheel, so I put it well off the side of the road and left it there, and came back for it the next morning.  Took forever because the road on the exit I took to get back over there was being repaved and so they were only letting cars in the one lane… so… yeah.  Anyway, I eventually got back to where the wheel was, and placed it in the place where my suitcases used to be.  Then it was a simple matter of heading to the autoshop and getting it changed (Thank you Colony Tire in Emporia, VA for getting me the rest of the way home!)

Anyway, it is apparently impossible for me to make a trip to or from college without some kind of problem.  Oh yeah, it was friggin COLD on the NC/VA border too.  I was extremely glad I had decided to throw my sweatshirt in my car, even tho I hadn’t thought I would need it.

That’s all for now…  I’ll write more later.