A Distraction from the Law

So right now I'm sitting at a computer, and being forced to stay here by state law.

Maybe that's an exaggeration. I'm currently enrolled at an online driver's ed course so that in a few weeks I'll be able to get my license. Well, in order to get the license I have to have had 30 hours' worth of driver's ed. Apparently, the course was NOT designed with me in mind. You have to spend a certain amount of time on each lesson, it appears. The thing will ask questions every once in a while to make sure you don't just sit and let it run (which is what I'm having to do >.<) and if you don't answer the question in two minutes the thing will log you out. So right now I'm having to sit here and blow 75 minutes until I can proceed in the lessons.

Fun.

It's very cold here. I'm a southerner who is currently visiting family in the mid-west, and THIS place was not designed with me in mind either. Okay, so God made everything according to how He wanted it, but does it have to be like this? I don't like the cold unless there's snow, and, naturally, there is no snow here. Only cold. And freezing rain. And the only reason I'm not out IN the freezing rain doing chores is because I have to sit here and time out the driver's ed.

65 minutes now.

Currently I'm reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Well, trying to anyhow. It really hurts right now, because of what the title character is going through. It's so much like my own current struggle, and she feels many of the things that I'm feeling now from my recent break-up. Of course, she was the one who ended hers, and it was my boyfriend who ended ours, but our feelings are very much the same. So when I try to read it, an icy hand seems to grip my heart. And it squeezes hard. It must work out, because it's very strong. I'm lucky to have my friends though, because they are helping me through this so much, I don't know what I'd do without them and God to help me. True, Jane was a Christian, but she had no real friends on her level. All she had was the guy. I'm sure everything will work out in the end for her, as well as me, but for now I try not to think about it.

59 minutes.

My novel was coming along well, but writing has come to a halt for now at chapter thirteen. Ironically, this is the chapter during which vampires are explained. I need to do research, but I need to do it at home and not here, because I'm sharing a computer with five other people here. I would have been kicked off a while ago had I not had to time out the driver's ed. My eyes are going to melt out of my skull from this. I tried to skip ahead to chapter fourteen, but my mind is making me do this in order. I'm not sure how many pages I have, because I'm saving two chapters at most per file, to make it easier to send to people who want to read it, including my English teacher/Editor.

Christmas has not been the best this year. My great-grandfather was sent to the emergency room on Christmas Day, so my sister and I had to wait for a long time before we could open anything. He's still at the hospital as we speak (er, as I type), and my grandparents are already talking about what to do with the money and his property and so on.

Whew, I caught a security question with twenty seconds until I was logged out. Go me. Whoo-hoo. By the way, did you know that backing up on expressways is prohibited? Yeah, this is what I'm having to stare at. I wish they'd have told me this BEFORE I'd driven on them! Of course, my parents told me, but that's okay. Hey, I had to drive into another state.

50 minutes left. Well, I guess I shouldn't make this post too long and boring, so I'll wrap it up here. Thanks for reading my fifteen-minute distraction though. You're amazing