Do I wield within me some great power?
Man, it must be going to the comic book store that makes titles like that possible. First off, Westfield Comics is absolutely awesome and everyone in the Madison area should be giving them their money in exchange for comics and comic-related items. But if the cashier gives you guff about not signing the back of your credit card, steal his pen or something. That cashier always plays Christina Aguilera or Madonna music in the store anyway. One of the many mysteries of the universe.
Another is that soon after arranging my ponytail in the bathroom mirror, I turned and watched my cell phone clatter on the ground, and found the screen blank.
Now, there are some appliances I can deal without. When my laptop acts funky, I can use another computer. When the cable is gone, I can play video games. But man, once you have a cell phone, the idea of not having one just makes life tedious. So, this depressed me SO greatly. So I left it at home.
After being out for awhile, I came home, pulled my car in the garage, and hit the remote to close the door. . . the door would begin to come down, stop and then go back up. I got to enjoy about five minutes of standing in my driveway, pushing the button and hoping THIS time the door would go. Thinking of all those bikes and cars in the garage, open to the elements all night. . . I began to despair. I sighed, shrugged, and said "Man, I JUST want to go to bed."
Suddenly, the door rattled down fully into the closed position. Pretty goddamn magical, if you ask me.
Back into the apartment, I decided that the cell phone had no visible injuries, just a blank screen. So I took out the battery, looked at it, and put it back in. Unscrewed the antenna, and put it back in. Turned on the phone, and suddenly now it works. No stupid trip to the mall to wrangle a repair or entirely new phone out of people who really want and/or need as much of my money as they can get.
So here I am, pondering the imaginable signficance of today's challenges. You and I both can chooose from a couple charming lessons I've come up with:
1. Like Timmy Hall in 6th grade, mechanical appliances love to give me a hard time until they get bored, and move on to getting into fights at recess instead.
2. This week, the stars have decided to mess with my brain. They've given me out of-the-blue realizations I didn't particularly want, rain so fierce it went horizontal--resulting in the John Kerry Rally being moved to the Alliance Energy Center so I didn't have time to go see it. It has broken my phone and revived it, and temporarily confused the garage door. Goddamn stars.
3. Picture-with-inspiring-statement-below-it meaning: Challenges are often best left alone for a moment, and tackled with a different attitude.
4. I finally upped my stats in machine affinity. I guess I must have leveled-up somewhere between when my laptop started displaying only 16 colors and those three rust monsters I smote thusly on the bus last week.
Off to pick out my new spells,
-Amber-