Inspired by Shem, midterm week, fatigue, and a desire to do nothing but eat, sleep, and plan my wedding, I give you: 50 things that really tick me off/ bug me (in no particular order).


50. the stubborn laces in my left boot that never stay tied for longer than, say, two seconds

49. extremely left wing liberals

48. extremely right wing conservatives

47. dishonesty

46. the feeling that i am turning into my mother

45. this university's determination to make me doubt my sanity at least 5 times an hour.

44. the fact that high schoolers are so heavily encouraged to go to college straight out of school

43. burnout

42. overprotective parents

41. needlessly rebellious children

40. hair that does not do what it is supposed to do

39. er, female problems

38. feeling trapped even when there is no physical cage surrounding me

37. Emily Dickinson

36. American Beauty

35. Christina Aguilera's notion that two gay men making out in front of a camera is beautiful

34. Christina Aguilera

33. very important, very public members of the administration who make very bad, very lasting impressions on innocent freshman (hint: i know it's freshman, not freshmen; it is meant to be so)

32. closed-minded bigots

31.hangnails

30. split ends

29. jeans that are too short

28. gaining weight, unintentionally, and not having time to do TAE-BO

27. being broke

26. being made to feel as if speaking my mind is a bad thing

25. side ponytails

24. hair that's too short to do anything with

23. not having more than 24 hours in the day

22. the devil

21. all the lies the devil tells

20. taking a class wherein the instructor thinks it is his moral duty to kill the subject he is teaching

19. confuzlement

18. exhaustive analyses of things which do not need to be exhaustively analyzed

17. inexhaustive analyses of things which do need to be exhaustively analyzed

16. fake happiness

15. indecision

14. okra

13. fried okra (why would you do that? really...)

12. being misunderstood

11. run-over shoe soles

10. really cute clothes that are way too expensive, considering there are starving children in the world (don't even get me started...)

9. double meanings

8. wordiness

7. pathological pessimism

6. the fact that time really isn't on my side, no matter what the song says

5. crying myself to sleep over things i know won't matter after i awake the next morning

4. puke green

3. really big polka dots

2. really scary chihuahuas

1. the fact that i test the worst in the classes in which i learn the most

GRRRRRR........................