Somebody get this lady a handpuppet

A. My feelings were hurt by an email I received last night.

B. I woke up at 7:00 am this morning with a phone call from a press office in France. Samples for a shoot tomorrow are stuck in customs, so I dealt with that frog-voiced and wearing my retainer.

And my day’s pretty much rolled on down the molehill from there.

I’m like the sore bruise under your T-shirt that people insist on touching. Poke, poke. Every joke is a dig, every nice comment is patronizing, and every irritated sigh is taken as a personal testimony to my incompetence. My gross incompetence. Seriously, because when some girls are incompetent? It’s way cuter.

At least it’s negative five degrees and sunny out! God, you need to work on your punchlines, because negative five and a BLIZZARD? Now that would have been a much better zinger. Especially if I was wearing Converse Chucks like last week when I had to dry my socks on the radiator at work.

Hi, I’m the new girl! Wanna smell my socks?

Comments

[T]

AND IT IS FREEZING IN CHICAGO TODAY! Brrrr.

[luka]

it's a hard thing when everything goes wrong and it brings u down so that u basically feel like shit, and for some reason u crave the sympathy of passers by in ur life, but when u get its like having leeches stuck to ur eyeballs and it makes u want to simultaniously scream and punch everyone in a 5m radius.....bummer. i coud say 'buck up kiddo', but i know that it's just as annoying. all i can say is i feel ur pain and just remember how great ur shoes are.

[Philippe]

Go get'em girl!

[coquette]

Brain. melting. need. wine. food. fresh air. weekend.

So, the day really didn't get any better or easier. (Aren't things supposed to turn around the moment you reach breaking point?) It's 5pm so that's good. And bad. Still lots to do, but at least the phone will stop ringing now...

Okay, back to it. Buzz buzz buzz.

[j]

Coquette, I offer hyperspace affinity, cyberspace sympathy, and innerspace empathy.

[shannon]

your bad day is over now...but for the future - the thing that makes me feel better is coming home, putting on my cotton, christmas themed high-water sweatpants, my grateful dead t-shirt from freshman yr in high school, a hoodie, and sitting on the couch and watching..well, whatever is on tv. just the fact that i am no longer in public and i am comfy in my pjs makes me feel better.

oh and chocolate and a glass of wine.

[Negrito]

Hi coquette, did you receive my picture?

[Mr K]

Life can be crap. Big hugs to our favourite and best dressed blogger. xxx

[MB]

Don't let people get you down!

I heart your blog.

When I was living in rural China, updates to your blog were ALWAYS something I looked forward too.

Now, I'm ensconced in a tiny, crappy studio in Linoln Park working in (shudder) a bank. I finally get internet access and BAM! you're in Chicago making me laugh again.

Tomorrow's bound to be a better day!

[Jonathan]

Having spent the last week commuting in and out of London, I can appreciate your level of frustration with life, the universe and everything.

That's what your blog is for :)

[HH]

Funny how some people use the relative safety of email to hurl hateful barbs. A friend sent me this Carl Sandburg quote today: "Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

[kim]

I had a similar day and your post made me feel a bit better, reminding me that we all have those days. Thanks for sharing the good and the bad. I'm going to eat a cupcake now.

[misshoax]

this is how my entire december has gone thus far. good times, yeah...

and whoever hurt your feelings by email should be thought of as a bit of scaredy-cat. do it in person, at least...

[Matt]

It's tough to bounce back from days like these.

I enjoy your site a great deal. Your writing is wonderful. I especially love your "stalking" of Sedaris.