Life’s little mysteries

…now include my sis in law’s schedule.

We’ve been following this pattern. We talk on the phone, usually because she called — my cell doesn’t always ring through to her phone, for some reason known only to the folks at Cingular, or possibly TinyTown Phoneco. She says, next Saturday. And then the weekend comes and she doesn’t call or show up, and I realize that this isn’t happening quite the way I believed it would. So now I’m practically a sis in law atheist — it’s hard to believe she exists when she never shows up.

Well, I take that back - she did show up for my graduation. But my brother drove her here.

Another little mystery — why am I so unmotivated these days? I think perhaps that I am beginning the slide into depression, partically induced by the complete silence from everyone to whom I’ve sent a resume. I know I have no experience BUT YOU AREN’T HELPING THAT, you people who think I’m useless just because I graduated a few months ago.

Each morning, I wake to the dulcet tones of MY ROOMMATE’S BLARING ALARM CLOCK, which he leaves going when he gets in the shower, and which I must march down the hall to turn off before it drives me INSANE, and of course by then I’m too awake to savor lounging about half-asleep until my own alarm bothers to go off. This morning I was THIS CLOSE to throwing his alarm clock in the shower with him.

Although I think burying it in the kitty litter might be more satisfying.

Or in the garden. Or perhaps tie it to his muffler.

And I have a spider bite that itches mightily. Hmm, maybe the grumpiness/depressedness isn’t so mysterious.

Nor is the package I got from Costco. Although it totally took me aback. They sent me a single razor. Rather than an ultimatum to shave, I took it as ‘buy the cartridges to refill it.’ They’re so confident I’ll like the Gillette Fusion enough to buy cartridges in bulk, they sent me one free. Of course, it’s not the battery operated version, so I’m not too impressed. Also, it’s a little alarming-looking — all those sharp edges in one place. What if I shave off a layer of skin with my leg hair?

Who knew there was so much competition between disposable shaver manufacturers? Learn something every day, around here.