Sympathy Period

I’ve heard that when 2 or more women live together, it is common for their cycles to synchronize. I’m sure that there is some scientific explanation having to do with the earth’s gravitational pull, the moon or that people are made up of energy and if they live together, they start to vibrate on the same wavelength. Whatever the explanation, I can sort of wrap my head around the concept, but what I don’t understand is why I am menstruating now that my roommate is a girl.

Let me be clear that no part of my body is bleeding and I do not have a uterus. I do however notice that my moods change in similar ways to my roommate and we both get more depressed around the same time (usually right around when she’s getting her period). Why do I know when she’s getting her period you ask? Well about once a month the Ferrero Rocher’s I got 4 Hanukkah’s ago mysteriously disappear.

I guess this phenomenon is kind of like when men have sympathy pains while their wives are in childbirth, so I guess the best way to describe my otherwise unexplainable mood swings is that it is my sympathy period. It seems like we get in a funk about our relationships (or sometimes lack thereof) around the same time. It’s actually not that bad because at least I don’t feel like I’m alone, I have someone to talk to about it, and lucky for me I don’t have to deal with cramps or breast tenderness.

SO HOW WAS LAST NIGHT? We watched “Cougar Town” and ate a pound of chocolate.