no better way to spend your Sunday

got caught reading on the train when all my friend wanted was for me to pay attention to her

Will you speak before I'm gone? Will you prove already too late?

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.