My car came back from the body shop yesterday. She’s still a little scuffed up (most notably some scratches on the one door’s inside plastic bits) but the real damage is repaired and she’s a LOT cleaner than she was before. If my parents haven’t forwarded these pictures to you yet, I got attacked by a Giant Metal Thing:

Now, this isn’t my finest photography work, I will admit that, but keep in mind it was pouring rain and 40+mph winds at 8am on a Thursday. I very much expected to be on my way to work. I shot a bunch of better photos with my fancy digital camera, except I didn’t have the data card in it. So those didn’t turn out so good.

Please note, in the first picture, the presence of an odd tarp-like thing draped over top of my car. That’s the whole story, right there. The Giant Metal Thing was supposed to be holding that tarp up; they’re tied together. Unfortunately my parking landlords don’t really understand how tarps work when they’re full of water (they tend to tug at their anchors). Don’t worry, this happened overnight, and I wasn’t sleeping in my car. The Nissan was the only victim.

Anyway, my car is back and fixed and cleaner than I’ve ever seen it. Really, the window is the best possible place that motorcycle trailer hitch could have attacked. So it’s a happy story, in the end. And there are more happy stories to come, as I try really hard to blog more. Next up, The Tale of the Baby Mug Bowls.

I can’t even tell you how exciting this city/workaholic life is.