Car morning

For the first time in WEEKS, I have had a real day off. Like sleep in, loaf around in PJs, have normal business hours to get my stuff done.

But instead of getting to lounge around, sipping coffee and reading my book, I spent all morning on the phone, dealing with car crap. It was productive, but still a waste of my time. Basically, my GEICO liaison sucks at liaising, and is only at his desk about 25% of the time. Which is unfortunate, since I usually have limited phone time and minutes to burn on his slack ass. Trying to get my WHOLE car fixed, including the random act of vandalism from January, while my car is in the shop. And since Pokey GEICO Man never called/emailed me back for the past week, all this has to get done THIS MORNING, before they release my car. Because it seems really stupid to pick up my car, return the rental, only to redo it all in a day or two.

Turns out the damage to my car is covered under uninsured motorist, which is ironic, since the damage was probably caused by some drunk guy staggering into my car on a Saturday night. There was some debate as to whether it was just a bad repair job from my sideswipe last year (en route to another grad interview....). The upshoot is that after many phone calls and a little bit of temper from me, they are keeping the car until they can fix it in the next couple of days, and I don't have to pay for it.

Then I tried to find out if I need to appear in court for this accident. At the scene, the officer told me I might need to appear to make Mr. Hit-n-Run's convictions stick. After 4 phone calls all over the state of Illinois the answer seems to be "probably not, but maybe." ERG! And don't even get me started on the fact that this guy was charged with stupid shit like, "failure to reduce speed" and "driving without insurance" (which he has). Failure to reduce speed equals thousands of dollars of damage and infinite hassle to several people. This is right up there with "improper driving" that flipped a car across 3 lanes of traffic, resulting in a totalled car and chronic pain for the driver. HATE.

Now I am off to the first of my interviews today. And there are flurries. In April. *little gray cloud over head just turned black*

on iTunes: "The Calling" - Santana feat. Eric Clapton