So, I've been without a car for two days, and I have to tell you, I could not possibly care less.

Yesterday morning, I set out to return my movies, and my car wouldn't start. The lights on the dashboard would come on just a little bit, and then fade away. Mary and I jumpstarted it after she got home from work (although, like the two girls that we are, we had to call a boy to figure out how to work the jumper cables), and I drove my movies back, figuring that it would be enough to recharge the battery.

Except that when I got home and turned off the engine, it wouldn't start again. Fortunately, I had been smart enough to back into the parking space and just planned on jumping it again in the morning and going somewhere to get the battery replaced.

Yeah, right. It didn't start at all. So I practiced a little fraud with AAA (don't ask, I'm going to be a lawyer) and got it towed to the Advanced Auto Parts, where a very nice young man named Joseph came out and looked at the battery and laughed, and laughed, and laughed.

Now, I had noticed the inch and a half of bluish-white crumbly matter that had enveloped the diodes on the battery when I jumpstarted the car the night before, but I didn't understand that it was abnormal and excessive. Apparently, there was seven years' worth of corrosion, such that Joseph was unable to disconnect the battery from the car, which meant that I would have to have the entire battery cable replaced, which Joseph and his gang at Advanced Auto Parts were not equipped to do.

So he gave me a phone book and a phone and I called the local Nissan dealership but I made Joseph explain to the guy on the phone exactly what the problem was. They had the part in stock, $40.00 plus labor. I bought the battery from my new friends at AAP, put it in the trunk (okay, Joseph put it in the trunk, because truth be told, I couldn't even lift it off the counter), called the towing company recommended by the dealership, then called my mother's friend and got her to pick me up and take me home.

As I said, while this morning was a bit of a hassle, I have absolutely no anxiety about having no car. I can't leave the house? Fine with me. I have a stack of books a mile high just begging to be read.

Although, I also have a television begging to be watched. I flipped it on while I was eating lunch, even though the hour between 2 and 3 is usually bad viewing. However, I watched the tail end of "Whose Line Is It Anyway" on Comedy Central, and then at 2:30, left it on to watch an old repeat episode of "Win Ben Stein's Money."

And lo and behold, one of the contestants on "WBSM" was my Stanley Kaplan LSAT teacher in Los Angeles. He was incredibly smart, and buzzed in first on almost every single question in the first round, and he got all of them right. He won $1900 before going to the final round, but lost to Ben by one question.

They didn't say this on the show, but he told us in class that he was (as of 1996, anyway) the second-highest all-time money winner on "Jeopardy." He must really know how to work that buzzer.

Surprisingly, that is not the first time that's happened to me. About a year ago, I saw on old co-worker on that revived "Match Game" show that I think lasted all of a week. She lost, though.

Okay, I usually don't do this, but since it's now the 13th (almost the 14th) and I have more stuff to say, I'm going to update with TWO new entries.