I will take a pause from my normal writing blog in order to discuss another piece of news: I became fully road legal today!
Now I can write anywhere I want. I could even take my passport and drive to Canada right now if I so desired. And if my parents get worried, I'll just text them while I'm driving there.
"Look ma, no hands!"
KIDDING.
But in all seriousness, I did pass today, and it was overwhelmingly easy. The thing about driving tests that makes them hard is that you hear rumors: like surly instructors who try and trick you into taking your hands off the wheel by asking you to turn on the radio, or that they pay people to run out in front of your car to test your reflexes, or that there's a fail quota that all instructors must meet. In reality, I had a pleasantly-tempered blonde woman who told me to pull away from the curb, make a few turns (overwhelmingly left turns), stop at a few stop signs (and one light), parallel park behind one car, and make a three point turn to go back. The whole ordeal took place in under 30 mph and in under ten minutes. The up side, I got an almost perfect score (minus five points for a wide right turn,) and, I was even COMPLEMENTED on my driving by the so-called, "abrasive" instructor. The down side is that the conditions were nothing like real driving, and I still have a lot of practice to do before I can take any road trips to Canada.
Anyway, I will be celebrating my minor victory with some food, some juggling, and some intensive novel writing.
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