Without thinking, I had mistakenly asked my friend Neil to give his contact my phone number. I don't know why I did that except that I must've been groggy (I'm not usually a morning person when I'm not out walking). I belatedly tried asking Neil to give the contact my email, but it was too late: My number had already been sent. According to Neil, the contact is supposed to call today, but I have no idea when, so I've been on alert since 9 a.m., trying to decide whether to go out and do an errand. While I keep my cell phone with me when I'm out, I'm much less likely to answer it since it's in my pants pocket and on vibrate, so I normally don't even feel it when someone calls. I also don't usually pick up when I see an unfamiliar number, and since I don't know the contact's phone number, I'll have to answer every unfamiliar call that comes to me today until the contact calls. None of that is Neil's fault; I did this to myself. I should have pumped the brakes right at the beginning and asked Neil to give the contact my email address. That way, I wouldn't have had to feel bound to my phone, which is one reason why I hate phone conversations to begin with: It's their synchronous nature. Texts and emails can be answered asynchronously, i.e., not right at that moment, so there's much less pressure to reply. Extroverts probably don't care about any of this because they love jabbering anyway—people are their lifeblood—but for us introverts, unless we're dealing with close friends, every conversation is an intrusion and a burden.
So having done some housekeeping stuff for the past few hours, I'm saying Fuck it, cleaning myself up, and stepping out to do some damn errands. I'll hear from this person (who works for some sort of tutor-placement agency), or I won't. It is what it is.
Blood sugar today: 224, down from 238. The descent begins. I'd better at least be under 200 by the end of the week. Gawd... then another pizza on Saturday.
Another thing to do today: master the art of turning my cell phone into a remote-control PowerPoint device. I'm gonna try some stuff on my Mac laptop later.
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