Y'know, you'd figure if there was a chance that your power would be shut off North GA Electric would send you the disconnection notice bill and not a regular bill with a regular due date. Wouldn't you?

So I am writing to you here from a table at Panera, where there is free wi-fi, because without power at Radio Free Ross-a-Noodle there is no DSL and no Meraki. And no heat, no light, and no stove with whistling tea kettle providing endless gallons of Irish Breakfast Tea goodness. The home fizzifying machine, however, works just fine. No power needed since it works on the gas pressure of the CO2. Yet another reason to love it madly. (Go to www.sodaclubusa.com now. Because your life is not complete until you have your own home fizzifying machine. Seriously.)

So after punting the diet YET AGAIN with a bagel with tomato basil cream cheese stuff AFTER my dinner of a roast beast sandwich at home (thinking the power had gone out over the whole street and that I needed to eat the roast beast before it went bad), I sat down to watch part of Iron Man on Copernicus to wait for the power to come back on. After 2 hours or so I called the NGEMC to ask when they estimated the power would be back on. That's when I learned that it was just me, that they'd disconnected me for a past due amount but for some reason had NOT sent me the Disconnection Eminent, Death Star Approaching bill but only a normal bill. So I figure this is a revenue grab, since they now get to charge me the reconnection fee that's almost $100. Which is kind of moot since the bill itself was nearly $400, with current and past due amounts. Did I mention they hadn't mentioned "DISCONNECTION" anywhere in that bill? No? Let me show you it.

So not happy right now. So not happy.

So I've paid up the bill, they should have the power turned back on TONIGHT. It had better be on by the time I get home. Or somebody dies.

I so want more Tony Stark snarking at unhelpful robots while being dangerously good looking with soldering iron, tank top and muscles. Because MIT geeks with muscles? Rank up there with black-haired elves. In the "mate with it NOW" category.

And this at the height (or is it depth?) of the monthly void into which my hormone levels fall. Although this is followed 2 to 3 days later by the dizzyingly abrupt resurgence of said hormones, which put the libido into overdrive for about half a day. Why? Because ovaries make testosterone, but it's not what they do best. So I value my testosterone, such as it is. Because I like getting the hots for geeks with muscles and black-haired elves, even if it only lasts for a few hours.

When I think about the fog of constant arousal I walked around in as a kid, I could just cry.