Sunday, May 19th

          I leave today. I'm getting that sinking feeling that comes when you aren't looking forward to tomorrow, like a Sunday when you know you didn't do the homework that is due tomorrow. I left Ramzi's house early because he had to go pick up his brother from college in Maine and he and his dad needed to get an early start. He took me to Dana's, which was just across town, where Noah had spent the night after his gig. I showed up there at almost ten but none of my friends were awake, so I was showed in and went to hang out on the couch for about an hour with Dana's dogs, until everyone woke up and Noah and I had to rush home for lunch because my mom  had shown up. We got back, had a little lunch and said goodbye and everything and took off to pick Dakota back up in Greenfield.
          We met him in a coffee shop and loaded his stuff into the car just as it was about to rain. we drove for awhile before we hit some heavy traffic, which ended up slowing us down by almost three hours. It was about 5 hours in, on a drive that usually takes around 3 hours, that we got a flat tire near Trumbull, CT. it was raining lightly, and was pretty cold, but I had to go out and change the tires because my mom couldn't get the bolts that held the wheel on undone. That meant I had to change the tire pretty much by myself. It was miserable. We drove through the traffic for another hour or two, but i was just finally glad to get out of the car when we got back
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