Things that are currently annoying you

I HATE THAT SO MUCH

 

comics uh, volumes? From the library which appear to be 4 books in a series, but there is an unexplained and unacknpwledged timeskip between books "1" and "2", like i read up on Gotham Central before reading, i know there is a plotline that happens that i'm missing!

 

If it's a Big Two superhero book, there might have been a crossover or event in another book that affected the plot of this one. Some trade paperbacks will include a summary for something like that, but not all of them.

 

For some unknown reason my bed is squeaking. It's annoying because it does it every single time I turn over.

 

There’s a huge difference in my head between someone who struggles with hygiene but does their best because they know it matters to other people, and someone who has decided that hygiene doesn’t matter because other people’s objections are stupid and they know better. One of those people is expending extraordinary personal effort to stop the spread of preventable diseases. That’s admirable! If only everyone saw it that way.

 

OH UPDATE IM ACTUALLY #8 ON THE CALL LIST
(edit) THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN

 

I have had this laptop for just over a month and the power cable has gone to shit and Dell's response is "Well that sounds like accidental damage that's not covered." and after being escalated 3 times my replacement isn't showing up until the 27th.

Why, O gods of electronics?

 

I just... need to vent for a moment.

Why can't I date athletic boys? I'm dating two boys rn in a poly triangle that's a lot of fun and is working out really well, but of the three of us I'm the only one who's in good shape. I'm not even that healthy, I can just sustain physical activity for more than twenty minutes without having to sit down and take a ten minute break.

I tried to go hiking with bf2 today. I've been hype to get out and do something fun since like sunday. He was into it too, because he loves me and gets excited when I get excited about something and wants to share my interests and be part of my incredibly active life and I love him for it, but today was a disaster. We went to two trails (my city is in the mountains and has about ten good trails in easy driving distance.) First one was a pretty simple trail, just a short way around a pond pretending to be a lake, but it was muddy. I was fine with it because I have good boots and was wearing my "let's get dirty!" clothes. Bf2 wore his nice tennis shoes, good pants, and a jacket he really likes and doesn't want to ruin. We got maybe an eighth of a mile into the trail before we hit a really muddy part and he wanted to turn back. I'm glad that happened as early as it did, because of what happened next.

Second trail was the cleanest one I know of, not likely to be a mud pit even though we've had four days of rain. Popular with joggers, bikers, dog walkers, all sorts of people who live on the mountain and want to catch a little fresh air without actually, shall we say, expending effort. It's a long, flat, nearly straight stretch of trail, fifteen feet wide at the narrowest point, with a one-lane gravel road going down the middle. on a scale of difficulty, 1-5, I'd rate it a zero. I've traversed more challenging sidewalks. Sure enough, it had maybe two muddy patches that were easily avoided by walking three feet to the left. Perfect, I thought. Easy trail, good weather, let's get a mile or three under our feet and enjoy the 70 degrees and sunshine. I don't care that it's barely hiking. There are grass and trees, the smell of honeysuckle, views of the valley through the trees, good stuff all around.

Quarter of a mile later he got tired and wanted to turn back because, direct quote, "this is about my halfway point." meaning that if we went any further I was going to have to carry him back. So we walked back along the flat, straight, all but paved path, got in his car, drove back to my house, and he fell asleep on my couch for two hours because he was exhausted from walking 3/4 of a mile.

why can't i date athletic boys?

 

Just get a third boyfriend.

 

I'm in waiting room hell for the next perceivable forever and I hate it. I didn't eat breakfast either because I'm getting blood done.

 

I want a gender neutral version of this song and it does not exist and is unlikely to exist!!

 

I'm like 99% sure I'm coming down with something and everything aches save me

 

No, YouTube, I don't want you to recommend me videos of people vitriolically hating on fat people. I don't understand why you think I would.

Speaking of YouTube, English speakers who insist on saying "kit-soon" rather than looking up how to pronounce Japanese. (It's "kee-zoon-ay".)

 

Actually, as someone who's studied a bit of Japanese (I don't know much but I'm decent with pronunciation), I'm preeeeeeetty sure it's actually more like "keet-soo-nay." Splitting hairs, but still.

who the fuck says "kit-soon" though

 

People who only speak English and are pronouncing it how it's spelled. And I was going by this, and that's kinda how it sounded to me, but I was sleepy, and you're right. I have a similar issue with people pronouncing Samhain how it's spelled.

 

Tsu gets confusing I think, because “ts” works like a single consonant sound in Japanese but absolutely not in English. The Japanese speaker is breaking up the word according to Japanese rules for syllables. An English speaker would break between the t and the s, so it’s very hard to hear what’s going on there if you’re not already prepared to expect that.

 

Everything

 

I lost some weight! Yay! I now have to find money somewhere for new clothes because now most of my pairs of trousers won't stay up. Less yay.

 

belt? as temp fix for now, you should def get new trousers when you have the money.

 

Having an argument, more than a debate, with my 70-year-old republican gun owning coworker about school shootings and gun laws.