Invitations are Always Lost in the Email

Nearly three months into my job here, I finally got an invitation for an after-work event. It popped up on my blackberry like a mushroom after a rainstorm...you know...like it had really been there all along, languishing in the airwaves, until finally something brings it to the surface.

I didn't accept the invitation. I guess I could have, though maybe that would have been the ibrown-nosing and suave thing to do. But there is something a little offensive about having to wait this long for an invitation.

It reminds me of being in high school and having to wait until every single other girl in my class, other than the ones who smelled bad, was chosen as an attendant for some (now) truly forgettable dance until finally they got around to me (a perfectly acceptable candidate with good hygiene). Maybe they were just out of other people to invite out to the purposely generic after-work event...it couldn't be that they would actually be interested in my company.

I'm far too smart and weird for that.
Maybe I should take this invitation as an insult to my intelligence.