Well, it has been less than a couple hours and I am already here posting a mini-rant. That bodes well for readers, but I’m a little concerned about the future of my sanity.

After finishing my initial post at work, I left and headed to a local sandwich shop to pickup lunch. I was excited to have finally started blogging and it genuinely felt good to have a new medium in which I could write and express ideas.

I picked up my order and stepped into my car. I began to pull out when I saw a white Lexus backing up out of a handicapped spot. She had decided to start pulling out after me, but I yielded on principle and stopped my car. I assumed she would see my car and straighten out her car… instead, she accelerated and continued to turn her car towards mine. I honked my horn and tried to put the car into drive to avoid her, but I was too late. She backed into my right rear panel and I let out a sigh of frustration that has come to define these past few months.

I stepped out of the car and began conversing with the woman who backed into my car. That is when I noticed something that angered me to my core: she not only was completely ambulatory, but she did not even have a handicapped tag/sticker/hang tag on her car. I guess she decided that not only did common courtesy not apply to her but neither did the laws of physics. If you are just going to park in a handicap spot without a tag, you are a jerk. If you are going to park in a handicap spot and back up into people’s property while you aren’t paying attention, then you should be removed from society.

We exchanged information, I took down the information for the sole witness to the event and we headed our separate directions. While I whole-heatedly believe that I was not at fault, I am fully prepared for this being construed as such. It is going to be she,  her husband and their fancy Lexus versus me and the Papa John’s delivery man’s word. I am hoping that having a neutral witness to the situation on my side, I’ll fair better than I would without him. If for whatever reason you are reading this, Pizza Delivery Guy, thank you for being honest and for being willing to give a statement.

I had hoped to order the Blueprint Prep LSAT review materials in time to review them before the June 2010 LSAT, but I am hesitant to do so with this potential financial ordeal looming. Luckily, my car nor her car is damaged to the point of being immobile, but I don’t like unresolved situations like this lingering in a pending state. Having to work to pay for rent, utilities, car, insurance and school does not leave an abundance of funds for auxiliary spending. I know, it could be far worse and I can’t try to pretend like I have it as hard as some people do. I have a secure job and I don’t have any insurmountable debts/expenses, but it does affect me when it comes to things like needing an extra $1000 to order educational materials.

I am already cutting it far too close to the June exam to go through the materials. It’s not that I haven’t been studying for months at this point, but I would have enjoyed being able to go through them all in a timely matter to adsorb the materials a little more concretely. If I had an LSAT-anxiety-o-meter, it would be approaching the “Warning” or “Danger” sections of the meter. My job can be quite stressful and with the semester coming to a close, things are only getting more intense.

We’ll see how this all turns out. I still plan to order the LSAT prep materials around the end of the month and hopefully I’ll have time to adaquately review them.