Negative Nancy

Why I hated the fact that it was a full moon today and am happy to be going to sleep:

1. 4 train took 20 minutes longer than usual to come this morning, resulting in sweaty back and no more iced coffee for the last 3/4 of my commute.

2. When 4 train arrived, I chose the car that was not air-conditioned, resulting in sweaty back, sweaty back-of-my-knees, and hair product dripping down my forehead - - the last of which was in part due to the fact that Kiki is on vacation (during full moon week) and therefore unable to cut my hair which thus requires me to use additional hair product.

3. Day at work consisted mainly of working with the craziest family I have ever met - - patient dying and her 2 personality disordered children acting, well, crazy, and me in the middle, wishing I had followed through on my initial plan to play hooky and go to the beach.

4. Felt sick all day because I went out for a farewell dinner with my friend KP last night and began our meal with something that consisted of fried bread topped with melted cheese, layered with more fried bread and melted cheese, covered in more melted cheese and finished off with a cheese sauce. Plus I drank too much. And still cannot bring myself to do a #2 at work.

5. Three 4 trains blew past my station on the commute home before one finally stopped thirty minutes later, resulting in sweaty back, forehead and knees, in addition to creepy man in sandals staring at me and trying to make conversation about the train situation while I was trying to have a telephone conversation with my mother who, in turn, was doing a really sucky job at this because she was sitting at the dinner table with my dad and therefore could not talk about Thanksgiving at my sister's in South Carolina or my wedding because he is currently opposed to both.

6. When I got home, M. was sweetly making dinner for me but then turned the microwave on at the same time as both A/C's, resulting in a power outage which, in turn, resulted in an apartment climate that reduced my back, forehead and knees to slush, mitigated only by the fact that I was now free to walk around in my underthings, and due to crazy family at work and train situation, I didn't get home until 7:40pm, which meant that the sun had gone down and now that I was finally free to do a #2, there was not enough natural light left for me to read M.'s latest Time Out New York while sitting in our greenhouse-like bathroom.

After that, things got to be okay. We watched "The Village," which didn't suck as bad as I thought it would, and M. just brought me a bowl of Oreo ice cream which I demolished, even though I just brushed my teeth, and I also scored a major deal on hair product at Ricky's on the way home.

But basically, today was a wash. The whole week was kind of a wash. And, as a result, this blog has been a wash. And nobody wants to read a washy blog, so I hereby solemnly vow, now that we are entering a new moon cycle, to Turn Over a New Leaf.

And I will start this new leaf by sharing my cautious optimism that I will soon have something new to download. Although M. just pointed out, when I complained about how slow our computer is, that this is most likely due to the fact that I have turned into the computer porn equivalent of a 90 year-old hoarder of old soup cans and newspapers.