*pleased with self*

I did a reverse park, backwards up a hill! In S's car, which I've only driven once, and that once being one of the only two times I've driven in six months. It's auto and has power steering, and is therefore insanely over-responsive by my standards. I can wrestle our little manual no-power-steering hatch into all kinds of places, but it is done slowly and carefully and with much elbow-grease. This car wanted to LEAP backwards into the spot, or possibly the curb or one of the nearby cars.

I did not hit any of these things.

Roads in Canberra are bloody weird.

I sorta miss driving. Not... really. But I miss being competent at it. I can do reverse parks and hill starts and tight u-turns, and I can do them because I spent years learning how. Not because I'm innately good at driving, I'm not.  I don't even like it. But I learnt it and became competent because I had to, and I miss being able to drive places and feel pleased with myself for being able to drive there.

Apparently I have bronchitis

What fun.

Not happy

Joel's got a party to go to on the night we were supposed to catch the train home together. He was talking about turning up late to it (it's up the coast) and going part of the way with me on a train.

Doesn't matter, does it, if I'm on a train by myself for two hours or three? I'm still on a train by myself late at night.

Says Joel: LOL. ULL BE FINE.

Yes, yes, I probably will. But I will also be lonely and bored and I'll be a young woman by herself on a train late at night. It is unlikely that anything will happen to me. But I will still be twitchy, anxious, and jumpy the whole time. I usually take the stance that if you need to be somewhere in order to go about your business, you might as well go about your business and screw the Young Ladies Shouldn't Be Out At Night thing, because if no young lady goes about her business at night that perpetuates a situation where if you're a young woman out by herself at night you mustn't have a good reason for it. I also take the stance that there's no point doing things which make you unreasonably nervous or anxious unless you actually need to do them in order to go about your business late at night.

I don't need to be on a train at 10pm at night to go about my business. I had planned on doing so because I could arrange to have company. I don't actually enjoy twitching every time someone new comes into the cabin or anything. Damnit. If I knew Joel  was going to the Central Coast I'd have gone to see William instead, I haven't seen him for longer than it's been since I saw my parents.

Bus tickets can't be refunded and I don't think the ones I bought can be transferred, either.