Somethings gotta give...
Aug. 2nd, 2007 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack_babalonMy cell phone is down. By which I mean kaputsville! Finito! Scragged! I picked it up when I got out of the pool last night and though I used my towel to grab it my wet ear apparently shorted out the battery (but being a few paygrades above caveman you could tell me the phonegnome that lives inside it got electrocuted and I wouldn't be none the wiser). The thing that gets me is that i'm so used to having everything programed in I don't even remember anyones number anymore.
I remember being told as a kid that there was no such thing as luck. Years later I would learn to respond that it wasn't luck but rather I was suffering from a "proliferation of random negative circumstances relative to my point of view" (it's not that I was a smart kid, quite the opposite really, it was just that comic books and fantasy novels had given me a wider vocabulary than most of my peers).
Anyway I don't know if it's that Mercury is in perpetual retrograde on Planet Rob or if there's something about me and Doraville that just don't mix, but this week has been one massive proliferation of random negative circumstances. The bus routes have changed, a fact I didn't realize until I realized that I was traveling in the opposite direction of where I needed to go (this is one of the perils of reading on public transportation). The end result is that I spent two hours lost on Buford Highway. When I got home I was limping due to a series of blisters on my feet from making the hike in my work shoes.
Work has been rough to say the least. I can't get into it here obviously, but the result is that i'm making less money than last year and doing a lot more work for it. This means that i'm always broke lately. I hate that more than anything. At this rate I don't even think i'll make Dragon*Con, shit at this rate I don't know when i'll have a new phone.
Anyway, none of which is anyones fault but my own and for that matter no ones problem but mine. I just needed to vent and with my phone out I can't even call someone who cares right now... even if I remember someone who cares number!
I remember being told as a kid that there was no such thing as luck. Years later I would learn to respond that it wasn't luck but rather I was suffering from a "proliferation of random negative circumstances relative to my point of view" (it's not that I was a smart kid, quite the opposite really, it was just that comic books and fantasy novels had given me a wider vocabulary than most of my peers).
Anyway I don't know if it's that Mercury is in perpetual retrograde on Planet Rob or if there's something about me and Doraville that just don't mix, but this week has been one massive proliferation of random negative circumstances. The bus routes have changed, a fact I didn't realize until I realized that I was traveling in the opposite direction of where I needed to go (this is one of the perils of reading on public transportation). The end result is that I spent two hours lost on Buford Highway. When I got home I was limping due to a series of blisters on my feet from making the hike in my work shoes.
Work has been rough to say the least. I can't get into it here obviously, but the result is that i'm making less money than last year and doing a lot more work for it. This means that i'm always broke lately. I hate that more than anything. At this rate I don't even think i'll make Dragon*Con, shit at this rate I don't know when i'll have a new phone.
Anyway, none of which is anyones fault but my own and for that matter no ones problem but mine. I just needed to vent and with my phone out I can't even call someone who cares right now... even if I remember someone who cares number!
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