9:42 a.m.

[handphone rings. i pick up.]

me: hello
cp: hi! it's me!
me: hi. what's up?
cp: you sound depressed.
me: is that all you called to say?
cp: actually, yes. [laughs] so what are you doing now?
me: right now? i'm calling people to offer them jobs.

[pause]

cp: the irony of all this is sheer poetry isn't it?

and he had just woken up. i am mocked, mercilessly.