my blue period

so it's been a while. let's acknowledge and move on.

i've been really cranky and generally in bad spirits for the last few days, and i realized tonight that my period is nigh. while i'm all for aunt flow -- she's like a big bloody 'you're not pregnant' card that i get once a month -- i never liked this habit that girls fall into of blaming mood swings and erratic behavior on their special time of the month. i just didn't buy it.

As far as I was concerned, my period's only side effects were getting me out of gym and the occasional ticket. But for the first time, this month I realized that my cosmic bitca-tude directly coincided with my uterus sloughing off its lining. and i'll bet you a dollar that all my life, while i've been busy making fun of girls who blame their periods for excessive weepiness, i've been crying because i can't find a matching sock right around the time aunt flow comes riding into town.