Things that are currently annoying you

my home internet doesn't work right now so i have to use my phone internet instead

 

Today I have: cried about Alan Turing, attempted to go hiking and gotten filthy muddy dogs and icy soaked socks for my trouble, thought about lunch and realized that everything I have to make for lunch takes effort, failed to respond to emails, failed to fill out paperwork, failed to make a grocery store run, and eventually flopped back into bed still hungry and wearing my muddy hiking clothes because everything outside bed was too hard. Mostly annoyed at myself right now - I know exactly what is causing this anxiety spiral and what steps I'd need to take to cut it short and I'm just. Not doing that.

 

I keep running into blogs which have themes without nesting, so it is literally impossible to tell where one reblog comment ends and another begins

it's fucking infuriating

 

Mom, you really don't need to slutshame Beyonce, that's not a thing any of us need or want to hear

 

My mum managed to ruin perfectly good risotto :( It was crunchy! It's NEVER supposed to be crunchy :(

 

"Oh no, someone did something creative with an already-damaged secondhand mass produced inanimate object! I must throw a screaming fit about this on the Internets and then tell everyone who disagrees with me that they're being unreasonable and judgmental and they're why the Internet can't have nice things!"

 

Blackout poetry?

 

The book fairy costume.

 

The current French media narrative of "Corsican people are racist, xenophobic, and parasites that steal all of your taxpayer money."

 

The meeting that I have dialled into. They are currently talking about one of the meeting members who isn't there, and I think it sucks a bit to do that behind someones back.

 

Pulled intercostal muscle(s) + lingering cough = NOT FUN

 

I was looking at this violin instructor on TakeLessons and decided that I would try to book lessons with her when I had the money for it. I have since gotten an email and two phone calls from TakeLessons asking me why I haven't booked those lessons yet.

My inclination is to nope the hell away from the website, but I know it's not the teacher's fault the website is seriously encroaching on my boundaries right now.

 

>:(
Can you contact the teacher saying "hi I want lessons at some time in the future but can't now because reasons, could I have your direct contact details so the website stops spamming me"?

 

If it keeps up I'll probably contact the website themselves and tell them they're driving customers away with their current down-your-throat tactics, actually. Maybe I'll ask her if she's on any other websites when I do have the funds, but I don't think I'll drop her any lines until then

 

Fair 'nuff

 

They sent me another email, so I replied with a request that they stop contacting me, and an explanation for that request

 

not so much "annoying" as "thinking about it makes me bummed out" is that I can't share a lot of the cool things I learn in school with my mom, since she beccame a born again christian and I'm a bio major. Usually out conversations go something like:

Me: today I learned that fungi use chitin in their cell walls, and insects use chitin in their exoskeletons. They're not related though, they share that trait because of convergent evolution.
Mom: I don't believe in evolution.
Me: ok but... I am stating facts....?

Me: Humans are animals
Mom: I'm not an animal
Me: Yes you are.
Mom: No, I'm a human.
Me: Do you sit in the sun and use choloroplasts to make your food?*
Mom: No.
Me: Then you are an animal.
Mom: No, I have a spirit and consciousness.
(something something, basically saying "animals" don't have thoughts or feelings)
Me: That's... a bleak view of the world
Mom: No it isn't!

*I know this is super elementary school science here and not really accurate but I just... how can I talk about the nuances of animals and stuff if we aren't even on the same page of what an animal is???

While I get that various species have their own umwelt, and it would be really weird if other species thought and felt the exact same way that humans do but... really? Implying all animals are just little machines that only care about getting food and making babies is depressing. Even if they don't think and feel like you it doesn't mean they aren't aware of and processing the world around them.

What about social animals? What about other social intelligent animals? How can you think humans are super special and are the only animals capable of consciousness when you have videos like Koko crying over the loss of her kitten or Alex the talking parrot and say other animals don't have thoughts or feelings? Who can own a pet, believe in souls/spirits... and think their pets don't have one?

 

Spoiler: petty porn bitching i almost said problem but that would be a lie

It is the fifth day since a character in a show i like flirtatiously talked about how he exclusively obeys his lady love, and i have yet to see fic of him getting dommed. >:[ Fer fuck's sake, the guy is an unthinkingly obedient and devoted dorkus who dresses in a skintight leather catsuit, plays sidekick to a badass lady who he adores for her competence and strength, and he gets tied up uncomfortably often. The hell do i see more subby portrayals of his love interest than of him??

 

My fucking tooth. Something about the veneer is wonky today and when I drank some water I could feel it against the broken part. Hurts like hell.

 

Ofcourse I get sick on bloody Sunday afternoon. When I kind of HAVE to go to the hospital tomorrow to participate (as a doctor-in-training) in the outpatient clinic that is the only one of it's kind in this hospital for the entire fucking week!
I feel like crap, and I hope that I get better when I have had a decent night's sleep, because I sure feel godawful right now.