It's snowing. But the roads still look driveable, dammit, so I guess I'd better keep with the studying. That's okay, though, because if I'm stuck at home tomorrow I will officially go stir crazy.

Speaking of which, I'm getting more and more irritated over the car situation. The whole thing about my never being asked if my brother could borrow my car until he gets one of his up and running still grates me in the worst way. And it was supposed to be a couple of weeks, but now that's turning into a couple of months. Sharing my mom's van is working out okay now, while I have no money to do anything, but I'll be getting my loan remainder check soon and dammit, I'm going to want my own car back so I don't have to live on her schedule. On the up side, my mom is starting to get fed up with the situation too, so she no longer acts like I'm being a spoiled, selfish brat if I complain about it. I'm still pissed that nobody cares about my keyring, though. Have I mentioned the keyring? No? Well, it's like this. A couple of years ago for Christmas, my friend Tess and her mom gave me this really nice pen and matching key ring, both black matte and silver, engraved with my initials. The keyring was, naturally, attached to my car keys. And my not being asked or even told ahead of time about my brother taking over my car, I didn't have a chance to remove my nice, expensive, personalized keyring before my brother was handed my keys. And now, my keyring is ruined. It's scratched so badly you can't even read my initials any more. And nobody's going to do anything about it. Really, I don't want my brother to replace it or anything, because I know he's strapped. But if they could just treat me like I've got a legitimate grievance and, I don't know, maybe apologize I think I'd feel a lot better about the whole thing. In my brother's defense, though, I'm not sure he even knows or realizes that he messed it up so badly or how much it means to me. I hardly ever talk to him, and I think my mom's not telling him because she's afraid he will replace it, and he really can't afford to do that right now.

Anyway.

I didn't sleep very well last night. Between spicedrum telling us all about a creepy ass recurring dream that a friend of hers has and frank and open discussion about my night terrors and the likelihood that I have sleep apnea, by the time I got in bed and turned out the light and started thinking about it all I creeped myself out pretty good. And then I was paranoid about sleeping on my back but I couldn't get comfortable in any other position. I had weird dreams, too, but nothing of particular interest to you guys so don't worry, I won't go into them. Then I woke up this morning, on my back, natch, to an extreme coughing fit. That was fun.

I know I have to go study, or at the very least catch up on all the reading before tomorrow's test, but the procrastinator in me wants to design stuff. I've been bitten by the redesign bug, so something is going to change soon. I don't know whether it'll be the main web site or DL. I can't remember which got changed more recently. But I think it's been long enough on both counts.

Lastly, I :heart: my chat friends. That is all.