Sinterklaas

So life comes with its ups and downs and today started up and ended a little down. My first phone call in my stats class was the RA needing help (and she would not have if she did not always forget pieces of paper or signup sheets...). The second was the car firm but I did not take that one. I had a foreboding, I had taken the car in because the check engine light i had mended last week started burning again. THe good news is I don;t have to pay for that because it was their fault. THe bad news is I had told them there was a clonk under the car (has been since I started driving it) that might be the cause of the problem. The clonk was not the cause of the problem, but the clonk is caused by a problem, something with the suspension. NOt dangerous, just 750 dollars to spend. I am not willing to spend that kind of money on a car I just sold yesterday. But I cannot sell it without mentioning the clonk - I mean I could potentially but I wont. So then I thought myself and future buyer could split the costs. Now that seemed fair until L and J informed me I could have sold my car for 2000 dollars more than I am doing, they looked it up on internet. They suggest I tell this person I am selling it cheaply and say I will do the repairs for her but she has to pay for it given she can make money on the car (as opposed to losing the 1000 dollars i will have lost if I do all the repairs it needs). J also says he can sell it for me in a week (and we would do a percentage deal so he would also profit from this). So, if I don;t worry about this other person I don't have to lose money. If I do, I don;t know what to do. If I had my time over I would ask more for the car, and I would anyway have sold it for more if it had not been that I know her. So, potentially I may be the one who loses out if we share the repairs because she can resell it at a much higher price than I sold it to her. But I know she does not have that much money, so to suddenly ask 750 dollars extra seems like a bad deal for her right now. HELP! So I guess I sleep on it.
Otherwise uneventful day, busy, but got little real work (read: IRB protocol) done. One more day of RA supervision and then that's it, we go for coffee and I have to do my own work again - but will I be glad not to have this daily supervision anymore, even if it does mean we are not running anymore subjects. I like both of them but the one is a real liability, I have to keep a very close eye on her without making it too obvious. Tomorrow morning again disrupted because I have to pick up the car, did not want to ask L to drive me again this evening and tomorrow morning i can get a driving service of the car company. So their little mistake has cost me a number of precious morning working hours.
Time to get back to my new itune story discovery, I finally have a beautiful red 8GB ipod - am I glad I bought it before i heard about the car...