yawn ... blink ... crash.

I did not think that the drive could get any more boring. But it did. The slightly rolling hills that fade into the distance and blur together in their brown grayishness are even more boring at night. I left home early so I could get back to school before the storm. Over 24 hours later I am 96 miles away from my destination and sitting in a hotel bed.

Instead of driving all the way (about 670 miles) I decided to crash at a friends house. Which was awesome, we watched "Easy A" (great movie) crashed and got up the next morning to leave. Unfortunately (doesn't this always happen) the snow had caught up to me and I got to spend all day driving in snow ... with semi trucks flying past me.

This trip started off horribly when I found that half the buttons don't work on the face plate of my radio any more ... they worked two weeks ago when I came home and no longer do now. I was not too worried about that because I have a remote for the radio (Yes a remote for my radio in my car ... I know it's lazy) but the remote does not have a button to switch to auxiliary so I can't listen to my MP3 player. Meaning I spent yesterday night and today listening to the radio. The only channels I could get are country, Christian and scary rock.

Today started off with a bang when I tried stopping for a light and ended up on the wrong side of the road in the street adjacent to were I started (or tried to stop). It was terrifying. And the trip only went down hill from there.

Remember those semi trucks I was talking about? Well the lovely state I am driving through does not understand the concept of plowing both lanes and the right lane was slick today (add that with some wind and my poor little car can't really go faster than 40, if that) forcing most cars to drive slow. But not the semi trucks. Nooo they get to go flying down the road really fast. And in the wake of a semi truck comes lots and lots and lots of puffy snow. White out. For about 500 feet. Ish.

While driving through a semi truck white out is disgruntling I did not think it was a big problem. And it wouldn't have been if the stupid semi had not tried to stop on the middle of the freaking highway. Bitch.

Imagine driving on an icy highway with a slight breeze. The world glistens with barely restrained evil. A truck of doom goes flying past and paints the whole world in flurries of white. And them Bam. The truck is swerving in front of you and when you pull off the road to avoid becoming truck kill a tow truck pops out of no where. With great reflexes you manage to avoid getting squashed or hitting the new obstacle, only to have the big white dodge truck behind you not be able to stop in time. It has been a ruff day.

After the fender bender accident the roads got nastier and nastier and I drove like a little chicken shit. For the last hour of the trip I was going less than 20 mph and riding the rumble strips to make sure I was still on the highway. The inside of the car was burning up because I was attempting to keep ice from building up on my windshield (it did not work). Just before stopping for the night it got so bad that I was trying to knock the ice off my windshield whippers with my hand, not an easy task while driving in a blizzard.

My car is now stuck in the parking lot of the hotel and I don't know if I will be able to get it out tomorrow. I did not pack an over night bag and I was so not going to haul in my big suitcase so I repacked a small bag in the parking lot ... getting snow all over everything. When grabbing my coat it slipped out of my hand and fell on the ground, getting covered in snow.

I finally got settled into my hotel room and into pajamas when I realized I had left my cell phone charger in the car. Since my phone was in the process of dying I had to get redressed (putting on wet canvas shoes is gross) and tromp back out through a foot of snow. The second time trying to put on my pajamas I face planted and gave myself some nasty carpet burn.

Over all what started as an annoying but necessary task has ended up as a horrible predicament. At least I have free Wi-fi and coffee.

And tomorrow comes the last 96.