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May 13, 2003Car-tastrophe!
Some wanker rear-ended my car yesterday evening as I was driving from my girlfriend's apartment in Venice over to my voiceover class off down by the Pantages. What's more, said wanker didn't deign to stop and exchange insurance information. Luckily, I was able to catch his licence plate number as he drove off.
I've been in two auto accidents during my seven years of driving, and they're similar enough to be a bit eerie. Both ocurred while I was waiting for a red light to turn green (at a freeway meter or a street light), I was rear-ended both times while my car was stationary, and both accidents took place as I was driving to or returning from voiceover class. Odd, no?
Anyhow, I called my insurance company right away and zipped over to the police department to file a hit-and-run report. Although they didn't divulge any information about them, when the officers ran the plate number and other information I'd given them through their records, they said that it matched up. With any luck, the forces of good will prevail and my arch-nemesis in the brown van will learn a costly lesson about vehicular cowardice.
In other news, I think I'm the only person in America who doesn't know the quadratic equation. My girlfriend's prepping for a calculus exam on Saturday, and she was surprised when her quadratic equation flashcard producing nothing more from me than a blank stare. I wasn't paranoid about it until later, though, when her friend Jenny saw the equation itself from across the room and identified it as being quadratic. Later, when Hope's roommate Missy rattled it off at about 80% accuracy from memory, that's when I started to sweat.
Hope told me that the quadratic equation helps you figure out AX2 + BX + C = 0. I contend that it exists only to vex me.
And yes, for any math junkies who were about to comment that I'd mistyped the above: Although my journal software allows for a great many things, a superscripted numeral to denote the power to which something is multiplied isn't one of them.
Posted by patrick at May 13, 2003 05:46 PM
CommentsActually, the quadratic equation, x=(-b +/- (b^2+4ac)^(1/2))/2a, helps you to solve the equation ax^2 + bx + c = 0. Put that in your pipe and smoke it :-)
Posted by: Hope at May 15, 2003 08:21 AM
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