Nearing the End

Only three days left until I return to New York... I am very glad that I am ending the trip early, although I am having a really fun time. But I miss New York, and you girls, and traveling constantly is quite wearying. I think I would be very upset if I knew I had another month of this ahead of me.

So much to update. By now, you've all heard about my cat. I am really sad, but mostly what I feel is anger and a weird sort of indifference. I suppose it's a defense mechanism kicking in - it hurts too much to think about her being dead, and so my mind doesn't really let me think about it at all. There is not much else to say about that. I am trying really hard to not get too angry, and recognize my own responsibility in who I decided to keep her with.

Today, as you'll note on facebook, we hit a deer while driving late at night down a highway. I was driving 85 mph (well within the flow of traffic, thank you) when I noticed a dead deer carcass in the road ahead of me. I tried to maneuver the car so that the wheel wouldn't hit the body - there was a truck in the lane next to me, so I couldn't move over. However, our wheel did hit the body, and spun the car out of control. We almost crashed into the truck next to us, but instead we drove off the road into the grassy median. I turned so quickly and was driving so fast that we spun 180 degrees and almost flew into the oncoming traffic on the other side of the median. Fortunately, we stayed on the grass, out of traffic, and didn't flip over. Miraculously, neither we nor the car were hurt. I was considerably freaked out, as you can imagine. I've never come to close to actually dying before, and this was really close. I think I am still a little in shock.

Also, much earlier in our trip, on our way into (Toronto) Canada, we got stopped by the border control and interrogated for an hour and a half because of a megaphone and a grappling hook. I will explain this later, when I am not so tired. I think the shock from the crash earlier is wearing off and now I just want to go to sleep.