If you haven’t read his “The Anthropocene Reviewed” I also highly recommend that one. Okay everybody be quiet my book is on

I finally have a day with no meetings, classes, or several-hour blocks of driving my kids to things. I was going to be super productive & then I got “Everything Is Tuberculosis” off the library waitlist at long last and made the mistake of starting it in the car and yeah this is what I’m doing today

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How awful!! Head-on collisions are terrifying. Glad you’re okay too!

I went home very shaken, with a headache and some absolutely spectacular bruises from my seatbelt, but otherwise fine. It’s a week later and, while I’m exhausted and still achy, I’m in miraculous condition, considering the state of the car.

They did x-rays and a full-body CT scan, among other things. All clear, except “maybe a mild concussion,” per my discharge paperwork. I think the medical students who were helping out with my treatment were probably disappointed at how uninteresting a case I was.

The firefighters and EMTs who evaluated me on the scene looked at the car and were convinced I must have lost consciousness and suffered internal injuries. The EMTs put me in a neck brace before rushing me to the ER and calling ahead to a trauma team.

Thank you! Well after it happened, when my brain came back online, I thought “I guess that was my best option out of the shitty options I had” 😂

That sounds right! I loved driving it, too 😞

SAME ♥️♥️

My husband and sister were absolute heroes, as was Kenny, the driver behind me who stopped and (1) bodily pulled me out of my mangled car and (2) turned his dash-cam footage over to the state trooper who arrived after I’d been ambulanced off. I have never known such angels of mercy as that day.

Same! That’s my entire list now 😂

We are, as you might imagine, having to buy a replacement for me. I have never had an opinion on what car I get, but this time I have insisted that I get a Volvo replacement.

My phone and car quietly spoke behind the scenes and decided to (1) call 911 and (2) call my designated emergency contacts, sending each the info that I’d been in a wreck and a map pin of my location.

Half a dozen people pulled over/came out of their houses to pull me out my car and take care of me until the first responders got there. I was, as the kids say, stunlocked.

Instinctively, I jerked the wheel to the right, which sent me into a gulley and then into a clump of trees. My Volvo did its thing and tightened the seatbelt around me, keeping me even from impacting the airbag.

Thank you all so much for the kind words! I was going south on the two-lane highway I use to commute to work and, as I came around a curve, I looked up to see (1) two cars in the northbound lane and (2) one car in MY lane coming straight at me, trying to illegally pass them, about to hit me head-on.

Hey friends! If you’re pondering what type of car to buy for your family, might I humbly suggest a Volvo? I’m partial to them because my very first car was a Volvo, but a week ago when someone ran me off the road at 60mph its safety features absolutely saved my life

I just gave my 14yo son (who is taller than I am) a comically tight hug and he burped in my ear and BOY did I flash back

Right?? And in this case particularly I figure it was “Vinny has to be able to stay in town for weeks, how we gonna work this”

YOU GOTTA 😂

14yo calls it 4.8 out of 5 stars

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HOWEVAH

AMAZING

Vinny was just going through the photos that Lisa took and 14yo keyed in on the tire tracks shot and I acted AS BLASÉ AS POSSIBLE

The judge just denied Vinny’s very coherent and well founded objection to expert testimony and 14yo asked if that was realistic and I said “yep. Want me to explain?” prepared to explain the abuse of discretion standard and he politely said “no” and unpaused

NOW MRS RILEY AND ONLY MRS RILEY HOW MANY FINGERS AM I HOLDING UP

Ya going HUNTIN’? 😂