cellphone nation

yet again i find myself in an annoying, if not embarassing predicament because my electronics are smarter than me.

first there was the incident with the CD. my blogmate, thinking that she had finally found a way around the incompatibility of windows media player with my car's CD player, made me a proverbial mix tape the other day, and i was so excited to listen to it on my way home from work. not only did my CD player refuse to play it, opting instead to spin it around with that painful clicking sound, but it was so unappreciative of the gesture that it proceded to spit the CD right back out at me. what nerve.

round two is actually alot more disconcerting. i woke up this morning and plugged my cellphone into the charger to have it light up with the "missed call" screen. hmm, i thought, "i didn't hear the phone ring." i wouldn't have thought much of it but the number that popped up next was my ex-boyfriend's. i haven't heard from this guy in the better part of a year (his idea, not mine) and there's a whole other theme brewing about why i could even recognize the number as his after all this time. of course he didn't leave a message, and my crafty investigative work suggests that he called at 7:30 this morning.
having obsessed about this for the last half-hour, i've decided that it's really unlikely that he called out of the blue at the crack of dawn to patch things up. it's only slightly more plausible that he called because he's stuck at o'hare on account the awful weather and needs to be bailed out of some kind of air-travel conundrum. the most likely explanation has to be that he never took me off his speed dial and that his phone had one of those mind-of-it's-own moments and took it upon itself to call me. nevermind me extreme annoyance that he wasn't traumatized enough by our breakup to take my number out of his phone (because you know i did that the very day we broke up), but now i have to sit around wondering why in the world my evil ex is calling me in the wee hours of the morning.


technology: 2 me: 0