the temper of the times...
apparently there are crazy people in my fandom. well, why should we be any different....
i have a headache and someone took all my aspirin. also i had a cookie and now i feel kind of ill. too much sugar, i guess.
for reasons that escape me, because i didn't pay my bill that late, i had no phone service this morning. i had a dial tone, but when i called for the weather, i got an automated message of the "service to this number has been temporarily suspended" variety. i called work, to check if the problem was my number or the weather, and it was my number. i called my house from the office and got "due to customer request, service to this number has been temporarily suspended". which may just be their standard automated error message, but i can tell you i never requested a suspension of service, temporary or not. so i currently can't call anyone from my house and no one can call me. i'm kind of confused and kind of pissed off, but at least i have a cell phone so i can call mci and ask them what the problem is. it seems to defeat the purpose if you cut someone's phone off and then require them to call you to get their questions answered and their service restored.
one of my friends from high school is apparently trying to put together an informal mini-reunion (like, maybe eight people) for the day after thanksgiving. i don't want to go. i have the day off work and this is going to happen in new york and maybe four, four and a half hours driving, so technically i CAN go, but i don't want to. i have so thoroughly lost touch with these folks that i don't care. if my parents still lived in new york i'd... probably be having thanksgiving in boston anyway. ok, forget that.
so far the plan seems to be to meet at my friend jodi's house some time friday afternoon and hang out and look at old pictures and reminisce. jodi forwarded me the email about it and seems to think i could take the train to nyc, she and/or her husband would pick me up, i'd stay overnight at her house, they'd take me back to nyc saturday, and i'd take the train home. normally this would be an acceptable plan, except it's easier and cheaper for me to drive (she lives on long island - you bypass manhattan altogether if you drive there - and i don't really want to be dependent on her or her husband to truck me the hour or so in and out of the city so i can take the train from boston) and i really don't want to have to spend the night at her house, because she is one of the most relentlessly negative and unhappy people i've ever met. she has a daughter, who i think is five now, who might be a really sweet, really cute kid, but the fact is, i have nothing to say to jodi, i have nothing in common with her except high school, i think her husband's boring, and i'm not interested in spending time with both of them when the only things she ever has to say about him are really negative. (like, "why aren't these people in couples counseling?" negative.)
i feel kind of like a bad friend because this mini-reunion doesn't interest me, and would only interest me slightly more if i had somewhere else to stay (like, say, my parents' house, if they still lived down there). i didn't have a horrible high school experience. i liked my friends. i don't have tons and tons of things i need to get done over thanksgiving weekend. (my plans for that friday include sleeping late, maybe seeing a movie, and working on my nanonovel.) my cousin and her daughters are going to be visiting from arizona, but i think thanksgiving dinner is my only chance to see them, so they don't count as a reason not to go to new york on friday.
i'm just not interested in going and reminiscing. maybe this will pass and i'll talk myself into it, who knows.
i have a headache and someone took all my aspirin. also i had a cookie and now i feel kind of ill. too much sugar, i guess.
for reasons that escape me, because i didn't pay my bill that late, i had no phone service this morning. i had a dial tone, but when i called for the weather, i got an automated message of the "service to this number has been temporarily suspended" variety. i called work, to check if the problem was my number or the weather, and it was my number. i called my house from the office and got "due to customer request, service to this number has been temporarily suspended". which may just be their standard automated error message, but i can tell you i never requested a suspension of service, temporary or not. so i currently can't call anyone from my house and no one can call me. i'm kind of confused and kind of pissed off, but at least i have a cell phone so i can call mci and ask them what the problem is. it seems to defeat the purpose if you cut someone's phone off and then require them to call you to get their questions answered and their service restored.
one of my friends from high school is apparently trying to put together an informal mini-reunion (like, maybe eight people) for the day after thanksgiving. i don't want to go. i have the day off work and this is going to happen in new york and maybe four, four and a half hours driving, so technically i CAN go, but i don't want to. i have so thoroughly lost touch with these folks that i don't care. if my parents still lived in new york i'd... probably be having thanksgiving in boston anyway. ok, forget that.
so far the plan seems to be to meet at my friend jodi's house some time friday afternoon and hang out and look at old pictures and reminisce. jodi forwarded me the email about it and seems to think i could take the train to nyc, she and/or her husband would pick me up, i'd stay overnight at her house, they'd take me back to nyc saturday, and i'd take the train home. normally this would be an acceptable plan, except it's easier and cheaper for me to drive (she lives on long island - you bypass manhattan altogether if you drive there - and i don't really want to be dependent on her or her husband to truck me the hour or so in and out of the city so i can take the train from boston) and i really don't want to have to spend the night at her house, because she is one of the most relentlessly negative and unhappy people i've ever met. she has a daughter, who i think is five now, who might be a really sweet, really cute kid, but the fact is, i have nothing to say to jodi, i have nothing in common with her except high school, i think her husband's boring, and i'm not interested in spending time with both of them when the only things she ever has to say about him are really negative. (like, "why aren't these people in couples counseling?" negative.)
i feel kind of like a bad friend because this mini-reunion doesn't interest me, and would only interest me slightly more if i had somewhere else to stay (like, say, my parents' house, if they still lived down there). i didn't have a horrible high school experience. i liked my friends. i don't have tons and tons of things i need to get done over thanksgiving weekend. (my plans for that friday include sleeping late, maybe seeing a movie, and working on my nanonovel.) my cousin and her daughters are going to be visiting from arizona, but i think thanksgiving dinner is my only chance to see them, so they don't count as a reason not to go to new york on friday.
i'm just not interested in going and reminiscing. maybe this will pass and i'll talk myself into it, who knows.