The Squirrel

Over the past few weeks, I have been taking Driver's Ed. My protégé, being my driving instructor, helped me to drive. He, being was incredibly erudite, showed me everything there is to be a driver, except for road kill. After I completed the driving course, I felt like I was being inducted into the position of Chief Driver, because I thought I was that good. On Monday, my mom told me that I could drive around in the parking lot of school while we were waiting for my brother who was practicing his avocation, wrestling. This took me by slight surprise, because usually, I had to become a militant for something so small. I guess my crusade of trying to drive whenever finally and come to an end, me winning. So I raced over to the other side of the car and hopped into the seat. I buckled my seatbelt and put the car in drive. I start driving to the school parking lot, thinking that I was a teenager prodigy of driving.
It hadn't even been a whole minute yet, when my mom gasps. I ask her what the matter was and she took me by surprise when she asked, "Did you not see that?" I had no clue what she was talking so she said it. "I think you just ran over that squirrel." I felt that my 'Oh-so-great driving skills' had lapsed. This very raucous news to my ears. So I made a circle in the parking lot to go back and see if I had really hit a squirrel. The dead, tiny, gray body laying on the side of the road showed me the tacit answer. Don't squirrels usually have the demeanor to run away from cars? My mom being adroit, got out of the car, went over to the squirrel with a piece of thick paper, and scooped it into the grass so other cars wouldn't drive over it. This had given me the definitive answer that the squirrel was officially dead. When we picked up my brother, he affronted me by calling me killer. Then, after my dad found out, he made me watch a TV show that had the same idea in one episode. I felt like a pariah by the end of the day. I can't believe I killed a squirrel.

Reading Times:
1/14/13=Clockwork Angel; 10 min.; 9 pg.
1/15/13=Clockwork Angel; 48 min.; 46 pg.
1/15/13=Research Project;26 min.; annotate
1/16/13=Clockwork Angel; 10 min.; 9 pg.
1/16/13=Research Project=30 min.; research, annotate
1/17/13=Clockwork Angel; 10 min.; 10 pg.
1/18/13=Clockwork Angel; 10 min.; 9 pg
1/20/12=Clockwork Angel; 26 min.; 24 pg.