Everything sucks. I blame Mercury.

Here's why I keep reminding people the planet is in retrograde

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A little while ago, just before I sat down to write this piece, I came home from the bagel store and found bees all over my kitchen. Bees! I went outside to see if I could discern how they were getting in, and while I was there, I heard a sharp crack — a large limb in the backyard was snapping off a tree. I ate my bagel, which was difficult because someone at the bagel store had put it together incorrectly, so that the bottom halves pointed in one direction, and the top halves in the other. This may be hard to picture. It is also hard to imagine how the person put a bagel together wrong.

But such is the case when Mercury is in retrograde.

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Jen Doll

Jen Doll is the author of the memoir Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest. She's also the managing editor for Mental Floss magazine and has written for The Atlantic, Esquire, Glamour, Marie Claire, The Hairpin, New York magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review The Village Voice, and other publications.