DotH Repost: Miome's Keys
Thursday, October 11th, 2001 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoSomehow or another my roommate's keys wound up in my purse. We're still not sure how this happened. I think she put them in there. She thinks I put them in there. We argued. Then I suggested that they somehow fell in my purse. It was a good enough excuse for us to drop the argument without either one of us admitting that they were wrong.
Though personally, I still think she put it in my purse ^_^.
It's funny how people remember stuff like meetings, assigments, birthdays, parties, etc. Or smaller stuff, like the factthat you have to get up early to finish a project before 8:00. I have this internal reminder system. It's great. Most times I don't even need a pocket calender. In fact, I went for three years in college without one. I got my assignments done on time. All my projects done. Always knew when my club meetings were.
I love my reminder system. It works like this: I'll have something that needs to get done. About a day or two (or sometimes an hour depending on how much lead time it thinks I need)I'll hear this little ping! sound in my head. And then I listen for the message. It generally goes something along the lines of "You have a test tommorrow in Business Law. Or something to that effect. I am reminded and all is good.
But it can be annoying too. For instance, if I decide that I need to get up at 6:15 to take a shower instead of at 7:00 (which is what I do when I take a shower at night) this is what happens:
ping! You were getting up early to take a shower.
It's 4:30 in the morning! I don't need to get up this early to take a shower.
Yes, you do. Otherwise you might go back to sleep and be late.
That's why I have the alarm set.
You've slept through your alarm before.
I've never slept through this alarm. You made sure I bought one I couldn't sleep through.
But you might start. better to get you up now then risk it.
Have I mentioned that sometimes I hate you?
Several times.
Sometimes I lend my reminder system out. Especially to my roommate. She is the world's worse for forgetting stuff. Appointments, meetings, classes, where she puts things. So I've gotten in the habit of reminding her when stuff is. Unfortunately, it's not as lenient as it is with me. So often five minutes before she has to be somewhere it will kick in. ping! Tell![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miome she's got five minutes to get to class. Which inevitably leads to the her making this squeaking sound and running around frantically much to the amusement of my reminder system (sadist that it is).
My little reminder system always makes a ping! sound. Always. I'm not quite sure how it pulls it off. There is only one time when the ping! is not present. When I'm late. Then I get a nice, snarly voice. Full of growls and teeth and annoyance at the fact that I once again have messed up.
Hey dimwit. You do realize that we were supposed to have that paperwork done by 3:00. Check the time lately?
CRAP! It's 4:00. Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap.
You forgot? This paperwork is necessary for us getting a job. And you simply forgot about it? Are doing this deliberately?
Look, I got busy. I didn't remember. Besides, you're suppose to remind me.
I did.
Too late for it to do any good.
If you had done this earlier, instead of waiting till the last minute we wouldn't have this problem, now would we?
There's a big disadvantage to arguing with yourself. You always know exactly what to say to win. Now my roommate has this other reaction to the realization she's late that drives my reminder system batty. Miome decides that she's already so late, that it doesn't matter and she doesn't care.
I can't do this. I don't see how she can do this. I am one of these people that even if it's just for the last five minutes, I will go to a clas if I am late. I am the kind of person that feels guilty if I call in sick to work and I am not about to die. I spend all day thinking about how I should be at work, all the things that I need to get done. I will stare at the clock and go bonkers. My reminder system will drive me nuts, frothing at the mouth about how we'll have to work three times as hard to catch up.
Miome doesn't have this problem. She simply forgets about it and moves on.
...
I don't get it.
But I still think she put her keys in my purse.
Though personally, I still think she put it in my purse ^_^.
It's funny how people remember stuff like meetings, assigments, birthdays, parties, etc. Or smaller stuff, like the factthat you have to get up early to finish a project before 8:00. I have this internal reminder system. It's great. Most times I don't even need a pocket calender. In fact, I went for three years in college without one. I got my assignments done on time. All my projects done. Always knew when my club meetings were.
I love my reminder system. It works like this: I'll have something that needs to get done. About a day or two (or sometimes an hour depending on how much lead time it thinks I need)I'll hear this little ping! sound in my head. And then I listen for the message. It generally goes something along the lines of "You have a test tommorrow in Business Law. Or something to that effect. I am reminded and all is good.
But it can be annoying too. For instance, if I decide that I need to get up at 6:15 to take a shower instead of at 7:00 (which is what I do when I take a shower at night) this is what happens:
ping! You were getting up early to take a shower.
It's 4:30 in the morning! I don't need to get up this early to take a shower.
Yes, you do. Otherwise you might go back to sleep and be late.
That's why I have the alarm set.
You've slept through your alarm before.
I've never slept through this alarm. You made sure I bought one I couldn't sleep through.
But you might start. better to get you up now then risk it.
Have I mentioned that sometimes I hate you?
Several times.
Sometimes I lend my reminder system out. Especially to my roommate. She is the world's worse for forgetting stuff. Appointments, meetings, classes, where she puts things. So I've gotten in the habit of reminding her when stuff is. Unfortunately, it's not as lenient as it is with me. So often five minutes before she has to be somewhere it will kick in. ping! Tell
miome she's got five minutes to get to class. Which inevitably leads to the her making this squeaking sound and running around frantically much to the amusement of my reminder system (sadist that it is).My little reminder system always makes a ping! sound. Always. I'm not quite sure how it pulls it off. There is only one time when the ping! is not present. When I'm late. Then I get a nice, snarly voice. Full of growls and teeth and annoyance at the fact that I once again have messed up.
Hey dimwit. You do realize that we were supposed to have that paperwork done by 3:00. Check the time lately?
CRAP! It's 4:00. Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap.
You forgot? This paperwork is necessary for us getting a job. And you simply forgot about it? Are doing this deliberately?
Look, I got busy. I didn't remember. Besides, you're suppose to remind me.
I did.
Too late for it to do any good.
If you had done this earlier, instead of waiting till the last minute we wouldn't have this problem, now would we?
There's a big disadvantage to arguing with yourself. You always know exactly what to say to win. Now my roommate has this other reaction to the realization she's late that drives my reminder system batty. Miome decides that she's already so late, that it doesn't matter and she doesn't care.
I can't do this. I don't see how she can do this. I am one of these people that even if it's just for the last five minutes, I will go to a clas if I am late. I am the kind of person that feels guilty if I call in sick to work and I am not about to die. I spend all day thinking about how I should be at work, all the things that I need to get done. I will stare at the clock and go bonkers. My reminder system will drive me nuts, frothing at the mouth about how we'll have to work three times as hard to catch up.
Miome doesn't have this problem. She simply forgets about it and moves on.
...
I don't get it.
But I still think she put her keys in my purse.
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