Today I checked my voicemail and there was a message from a debt collector. Not that I knew that from the message itself, which only said, in a pre-recorded voice, that this was "a personal business matter" or some crap like that. I knew it was a debt collector because the message was like one I had a year or so ago, the last time they had the wrong girl and it was up to me to fix their mistake.
Today I had the constant stress of dealing with a 13 year old whose defiance switch got flipped to the "on" position.
Today I had to go to work and when I came home I resumed the seemingly endless work of getting my little condo ready to sell so I can finally, after years of hard work, move into a house I like and that's right for me and that defiant 13 year old.
And today, my TU status disappeared. I'm tired, but I'll try to connect all this below.
The TU change isn't a big deal of itself (although I'm glad my rare troll rating did help get at least one deserved comment hidden). It was the symbolic defeat of it all.
My life has been turning into the thing that Kossacks often wonder about, that is, how people who know so much is wrong in this country can willingly do so little about it.
If I understand the rules correctly, my TU is gone because I've lacked mojo; and I've lacked mojo mainly because I just haven't posted much in the way of comments lately. I simply haven't had much time to be here lately.
The moving part is my own doing. The 13 year old is an issue that I'm sure is not uncommon, but it does sap the energy sometimes.
But what about that debt collector? I did some googling and found out that the law firm that called me is of questionable reputation. But it will be up to me to fight it because, despite the fact that I have no delinquent debt (but do have a fairly common name, which led to erroneous calls to me in the past), just like it was up to me to resolve the theft of my debit card number last year. Just like it's up to me to take care of the damage that's done if someone steals my identity. Just like, I recently learned, I have to "opt out" with the credit bureaus to get CitiBank to stop sending that defiant 13 year old credit card solicitations.
My point, I suppose, is in the fact that I'm not making much of a point at all. I'm tired. The debt collector and Citibank and a bunch of other tireless entities get to carry on their error-ridden ways and it's up to me, and millions of people like me, to fight it alone. Amidst our lives where we already have lots of things that keep us busy, and while Congress talks about gay people and flag burning.
The TU thing is all just so symbolic. How many people are too tired from fighting all the little fights in their own lives -- fights that Congress could stop them from fighting alone -- to participate?