Thursday, April 16, 2009

Timing is Everything

As you probably know, I live with my mother. It's been almost 2 years now since I moved in after law school. Would I rather live almost anywhere else most of the time? Absolutely. There are certain inescapable realities that prevent that, including but not limited to owing more than $7000 in taxes.

Anyway, because we never used the land line, my mother unilaterally decided to cut off the land line and only use the cell phones (which I pay for, btw), which caused the internet to allegedly be shut down for a day, maybe two. Yeah, that was a month ago.

So I expected that she would handle it since it was, after all, HER decision. Nope. She kept blaming the phone line, blaming the connection on the pole, blaming me, blaming the poor girl in Texas, blaming everyone in the call center in India...you get the picture. It was everyone's fault but hers.

So I got on the phone today with tech support. It took 15 minutes and 34 seconds to fix the whole problem. I swear that I could scream. I called my mom to tell her I fixed the problem, and asked her why she hadn't just followed the KISS (aka mind-numbingly simple) instructions on how to fix this. She said she didn't know that she was supposed to follow the instructions and call. Um, yeah. It's really freaking difficult to follow the simplest instructions. So this entire process proves one of two things: (1) my mother is extraordinarily lazy, or (2) mind-numbingly simple. Knowing that she's an educator (at a public school in the skids, granted), I'll opt for door number one, Bob.

So to update you, I signed a lease for an office space of my very own. It will be the Law Office of ME!!!!! I'm really excited.

Rather than make my first post in a month really long and tedious, we'll just leave it at the lease for now and get back on track in the coming days.

I missed you!

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