mercury is in retrograde

(Oh also, I should mention that my reaction to the "OMG when did I become an adult?" realization was right before my (extra) fifth year of college, in the summer. My first apartment, shared with my math chick friend, and one day it hit me like a lightning bolt: "Holy crap! I am basically an adult! I can do whatever the ef I want!" So I went to the convenience store down the street and... bought a pack of cigarettes. Because I could! I'd tried smoking once or twice about eight years prior with a neighbor. But I tried it again! and then realized, "this is dumb", gave the rest of the cigs to a smoker friend who was in my a cappella choir, and decided that instead, I would spend exorbitant amounts of money making halloween costumes that year because I could!.)