14th May, 2009 - Sibling Rivalry

I am irritated by my sister from time to time. This is not because she is particularly irritating, but because she is better than me in all the ways that count. Oh sure, I am better at playing Mediaeval Total War on the PC than she is, and I suspect that she doesn’t know the track listing on Marillion’s classic album “Script for a Jester’s Tear”, but she generally makes me feel a bit of a failure everywhere else.

For example, her house is pristine, whereas mine looks like the sort of place some Eastern European zombies have been living for the past 18 months, since mankind was destroyed by the virus that was brought to earth by the asteroid. When she comes to visit, I can tell that she can’t wait to get home and have a shower afterwards.