So I don't know why astrology has any bearing on reality, there's no logical, scientific explanation for it, but at least certain aspects of astrology undeniably seem to affect reality in my opinion. One of these aspects is communications being all screwy when Mercury is in retrograde. Not that I've followed astrology at all in years, nor do I talk to most of the people I used to any more who would know what alignments the planets are in at any given time.

But then someone entirely unexpected (Jake's mom) said to me today, as an explanation for something, "Mercury is in retrograde". I thought "Huh, that would explain so much in the past few days. But that totally couldn't be true for this past weekend". I looked it up, and sure enough, Mercury went into retrograde on Monday. It comes out of retrograde on June 19. Well there you go then, that explains my week.