Today I am the cartoon character with one thick black line for an eyebrow and two eyeballs sagging beneath it and a dark scribble of funk over my head. Tried looking for some clipart of a grumpy Calvin, but no luck.
After a long, med-free day of driving, traffic, coming home to Rt. 46 U-turns, frenzied media research and a late bedtime, I woke up as grumpy as humanly possible and in serious need of some prunes and bran.
The rainy train ride was tainted by my two seatmates, Pack-a-Day and The Macy’s Perfume Department. When Macy’s left her umbrella on the floor, I decided against pointing it out. Two much nicer humans saw it, though, and pointed it out to me, thinking it was mine. I felt briefly chastised, but frankly, the woman could use a good rinse. With any luck her co-workers will not spend their mornings with dry, itchy eyes from her perfume overdose.
On the bright side:
1. The train arrived at Walnut St. before I did and stopped between the lowered gates. I ducked under the gates, walked around in front of the train and boarded!!!! No cops giving tickets! No announcement from the engineer to bar the young lady with the brown coat from boarding! The conductor saw me coming and held the door for me!
2. My laptop battery lasted the entire ride to work.
3. My green tea smells like fish, but it has soothed me somewhat.
4. When we got home last night, there were two packages for me, and they contained neither aluminum, foam, plastic, or packaging. These had finally arrived (and in the interest of this Pollyanna list, I will save my ire on the cost and length of delivery for the Shoe Metro customer service) and so had this beautiful thing, which I’ll wear to a family wedding this weekend:
