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Sep. 20th, 2009 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupI didn't mention this earlier because I didn't want to seem paranoid or freak anyone out but MAN. I'm now really glad that I didn't take the car out today.
POINT THE FIRST: I had a very vivid moment this morning where I thought, wow, what if I take the car out today and get T-boned in it, wouldn't that be strange? Tragic but kind of just-my-luck funny, too.
The last time I had a moment like that, it was my last day at work in Oregon, a month after I'd left school. I was prepping to move to St. Nowhere for grad school, and I thought, wouldn't it be funny if something happens to me on the bike ride to work and I never made it to my last day? And half an hour later I was in the emergency room after being hit by a car, an accident which put me off my feet for three weeks solid.
SO YEAH, THERE'S THAT.
POINT THE SECOND: You remember the insane day I had on Friday, where everyone around me was crazy or unfortunate and I was just like, in the eye of the storm? Mum had that today. First my car failed, which she was in on since she pays the membership fee for that, and then Emmy's bike was stolen (which awesome big brother made her get lock insurance? THIS AWESOME BIG BROTHER) so Lucky had to go pick her up, and then the State of Texas called Mum to tell her she was doing Thing X illegally, when she is not and has never done Thing X. ON A SUNDAY. WHAT.
AND THEN
(Oh actually this is kind of satisfying)
Mum got an email from my brother's mother-in-law. She normally doesn't tell me about them, but Bernard had got a job at some temp employment agency or something, I don't know, I don't pay attention when she talks about him. But he's been screwing up left and right and alienating their clients, so he was sacked. And his mother-in-law is "worried" because her daughter is talking about throwing him out because he hasn't got her pregnant yet.
It's not even that I'm enjoying his misfortune, though perhaps a little vengeful part of me is (I try to live by the Thirty Things, but I don't always succeed). It's that Bernard might finally be learning that ditching his family isn't going to make his life perfect, and that no, actually, he isn't the Big Bad Grownup he thought he was yet. And, if he hadn't alienated everyone who loves him, he might not be in a shitheap right now.
So, to sum up: I did not get into a car accident today, and it was a Good Birthday.
POINT THE FIRST: I had a very vivid moment this morning where I thought, wow, what if I take the car out today and get T-boned in it, wouldn't that be strange? Tragic but kind of just-my-luck funny, too.
The last time I had a moment like that, it was my last day at work in Oregon, a month after I'd left school. I was prepping to move to St. Nowhere for grad school, and I thought, wouldn't it be funny if something happens to me on the bike ride to work and I never made it to my last day? And half an hour later I was in the emergency room after being hit by a car, an accident which put me off my feet for three weeks solid.
SO YEAH, THERE'S THAT.
POINT THE SECOND: You remember the insane day I had on Friday, where everyone around me was crazy or unfortunate and I was just like, in the eye of the storm? Mum had that today. First my car failed, which she was in on since she pays the membership fee for that, and then Emmy's bike was stolen (which awesome big brother made her get lock insurance? THIS AWESOME BIG BROTHER) so Lucky had to go pick her up, and then the State of Texas called Mum to tell her she was doing Thing X illegally, when she is not and has never done Thing X. ON A SUNDAY. WHAT.
AND THEN
(Oh actually this is kind of satisfying)
Mum got an email from my brother's mother-in-law. She normally doesn't tell me about them, but Bernard had got a job at some temp employment agency or something, I don't know, I don't pay attention when she talks about him. But he's been screwing up left and right and alienating their clients, so he was sacked. And his mother-in-law is "worried" because her daughter is talking about throwing him out because he hasn't got her pregnant yet.
It's not even that I'm enjoying his misfortune, though perhaps a little vengeful part of me is (I try to live by the Thirty Things, but I don't always succeed). It's that Bernard might finally be learning that ditching his family isn't going to make his life perfect, and that no, actually, he isn't the Big Bad Grownup he thought he was yet. And, if he hadn't alienated everyone who loves him, he might not be in a shitheap right now.
So, to sum up: I did not get into a car accident today, and it was a Good Birthday.
