It's so much easier to yell about someone than at them

Someone's an overachiever. Or the rest of us are slackers. I vote "B."

I've stopped cleaning at the Asylum. Like anything. At all. Sometimes I throw a dish in the dishwasher. Times, that is, like once a week when I use a fork at home. 

I'm only home to sleep or belatedly change out the laundry. I haven't used the guest bathroom in two months. I haven't sat in the living room for longer than five minutes in four months. I use the second floor bathroom (where my stuff is) to brush my teeth in the morning and at night. 

For these reasons, I made the decision not to help clean the rooms I don't use. I've been following this plan since mid-July.

You will notice that my name is still crossed off for all the dates after July. 

Two weeks ago, I was hiding in my room, using the computer before bed when I got a text from Norm.

"They are mad at one of us - do you know what's going on," she wrote. She was sitting downstairs. Older Sister had checked her reflection in the living room mirror and immediately whirled around in a huff to Younger Sister.

"This is ridiculous," Older Sister seethed.

"It's not that big a deal," Younger Sister said in an attempt to calm her down. Instead, Older Sister used this as an opportunity to launch into a tirade. The siblings continued to argue in another language, the one reserved for talks about Norm and I. They speak in code to protect us from fully knowing the extent of their rage. Which is strange, because we always know how angry they are. Instead, we just don't always know why.

Using bits of English and chunks of context clues, it appears that because I did not clean the living room, the mirror reflection was not up to correct household standards when Older Sister took a gaze at herself. 

Set aside the idea that a mirror does not collect much dust in the span of two weeks. Ignore the fact that I left my name uncrossed on the chart so that I was obvious and not misleading in my rebellious ways. Draw your attention instead to the red marker that has retroactively crossed my name off the cleaning duties. 

I have done no more cleaning in the past month and a half than I planned to do. That is to say, I have done nothing. My name, however, seems to have been busy.