JMU!!!!!

1 day, 12 hours, 24 minutes and 50 seconds

Seriously?

So today I'm driving along running errands with my cousin, Maria.

We just went to the bank and now we're driving to the library to drop off books, right? And since we're coming from the bank, we're going a new, unexplored (by me) route to Reston Regional.

We're dropping off the book that will probably cost me $10 since someone put a hold on it so I couldn't renew it so it came due while I was on vacation. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon. If anyone was curious. Which by the way, I never got to finish.

ANYWAY

We get to this intersection to turn left where I have a stop sign but the perpendicular lanes do not. (+10 big word points)

Let me get this out of the way now: I messed up. It was my fault. I did not have the right of way.

There's a big line of cars on my left that go through and then I see four cars all getting into the right-turn-only lane with blinkers on. I can see no cars behind them and there's no one coming from my right. So I start to inch out just to make sure.

Out of NOWHERE, this little mean old man comes speeding (like 45 in 25 speeding, so not a lot, but still totally legally reckless) towards me. So I stop. Technically I am still not in the intersection, but I'm not behind the stop sign. He totally was fine and had room to keep going.

I expected a beep. I'm waving sorry, didn't see you with my best oops face on. What does this guy do? He stops his car in front of mine so he can look straight at me and point at me for a good 30 seconds.

I will forever be haunted by this image.

This is the closest thing I can find to the picture in my head.

His finger was all knobby like that cane, too.

After the situation, Maria told me I should have given him the finger. At the time, I just gave him my what-do-you-want-from-me? face until he finally drove away. Stupid asshole mean old man.

Then we went to Chick-Fil-a and got cookies and cream milkshakes :)

Update to come on what creepster dream I have about it tonight, though.

My most long term obsession

is degrassi.

i've literally been watching this show since i was 10. i've seen the channel go from noggin to the-n to teennick. i've taken part in fan fiction online, debated with other squawkward tweenies on whether emma should be with sean or craig (and then she marries spinner?!). anyway, they've basically covered about a million high school and some college issues. i don't even know how they continue to come up with what can happen to these poor kids.

IT'S JUST SO CAPTIVATING.

so now they've got this new spinoff called the boiling point.

and i don't really know how to deal because it really is SO INTENSE.

that used to be the tagline for a while.

so today i'm going to give you all my top 5 favorite "old school" degrassi: the next generation moments. since let's be real i pretty much know them all. get excited.

1. Emma and Sean's kiss/ the entirety of the White Wedding episode.

see how cute!?

emma has dated almost EVERY GUY on this show (she's been a main character for 9 seasons) near her age. and by that i mean literally all the guys in her grade except toby and jt. and toby had the hots for her so he like half counts. but none of them was so perfect, sweet, or as meant to be as semma.

He saves her from rick and accidentally kills him.

she visited him in jail and gave him shampoo she uses so he can smell her in his free time.

so why does she marry spinner?

sean, you f-ed up. big time. also, that's your best friend marrying them. yeah.

2. manny and craig's date.

this is back when manny was cute.

pre- craig

post -craig

This episode was HILARIOUS because they showed the date from both sides- to Craig it was terrible but to Manny it was a dream come true. Also Craig wins her horsey horse. (to go with ducky duck and goosey goose) And yet they still date (Manny ends up being quite the little homewrecker) for like a couple more seasons.

3. LiberT (that's my name for JT/Liberty)

So season 1, Liberty the bookish annoying nerd has a crush on JT, the class clown. and like, told everyone.

what 13 year old wouldn't have a crush on this????

or this?!

So he tells her he's gay to make her stop liking him. too bad she wants to be bffs now.

"hey liberty, girlfriiiiend!"- he actually says this.

So then Liberty gets hot (like 3 seasons later) and suddenly JT is like... um yeah, i was just kidding. AND THEN THEY GET PREGNANT. which is like, a whole 'nother mess. JT gets a job at the Canadian version of CVS and is totally gonna be the best teen daddy ever and then he steals/sells drugs to pay for said baby. So Liberty is like WE IS OVER. and gives the baby up for adoption when JT OD's on the drugs he was selling.

So JT moves on eventually and starts dating Mia, who is another teen mom. Liberty= pissed. So she dates some random guy who basically also likes Emma, but that's a whole different story.

ANYWAY, then JT is at a party and decides he loves "Oatmeal"(Liberty) more than "Meatball Subs." (Mia) REALLY JT?! So go after her, you say!

Well he's about to. And then he dies.

Seriously. He goes outside and pees on a car and so a Lakehurst kid (apparently the school only has thugs and idiots- except Mia) stabs JT in the back.

No, like really.

It was basically one of the only times I have cried over a TV show.

And I'm glad if the actor had to go to college and be killed off, that at least LiberT was once more. For about 2 seconds.

Oh, P.S. Liberty doesn't find out he still loved her until his memorial. Like 2 episodes later.

4. Craig, Sean, Spinner and Marco go joyriding.

At the ripe old age of 14, the guys decide to borrow a car from Joey's (Craig's stepdad/new guardian) dealership. Spinner, who had been downing entire cans of cheese for fun, pretty much eggs him on, while Marco aka killjoy tells them they shouldn't but goes anyway.

they're so cool.

So instead of just a ride around the lot, they drive 10 min away to try to win Kid Elrick concert tickets from a radio station. Who is Kid Elrick you ask? Hell if I know.

They actually win 4 tickets and pass the cops on the way back to the lot. Good thing Joey is smart and has an ALARM SYSTEM for his car dealership office where all the KEYS are.

Stupid boys. They lose their tickets and Craig loses like 1 cool point. It's ok though, because Spinner still is the least cool since the cheese can race eventually became a fart-a-thon.

5. Craig and Ashley do The Taming of the Shrew

Ashley + Jimmy= LUV4EVR.

Until Ashley decides to become a goth. Which Craig apparently digs.

bye bye popularity, hello jake epstein

So Craig is like, be yourself! And Jimmy is like, where's my girlfriend?!

Craig and Ashley are assigned to be partners in Ms. Kwon's latest English-assignment-that perfectly-fits-with-the-episode-theme: a scene from The Taming of the Shrew.

Ashley changes back to her old look for Jimmy- which basically means she looks like a little boy with her short hair.

Jimmy and Hazel do a cutesy, comedy version of the scene as a football player and cheerleader.

awwww. they don't get it! how cute.

Craig and Ashley do a dramatic, violent, AWESOME version of it that is totally commentary on Craig's dad beating him AND Jimmy trying to hold Ashley back.

Craig is even hotter when he's angry.

In the words of Ms. Kwon- "Wow. Intense."