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June 24, 2005
Things that are pissing me off
I'm so damn crabby that I can't really articulate much beyond a list.
1. My "job". I write a monthly column for a local magazine. Today I got the "we need to find new ways to make your column 'pop'" email, which mentions extra work and pavement-pounding. Am I comfortable with that? Well, that all depends. Are they comfortable getting financial compensation to me on a regular basis? Or providing some feedback? Because I've never really had either in the almost-four years I've been there. I don't know - the whole tone makes me feel a bit like it's a test and if I don't give the right answer, my job will be gone. And I'm not convinced that would be a bad thing. So, I'm asking myself if it's worth it. Right now, considering how irritated all of this makes me, I'm thinking it's not.
2. Clara "Mama's Girl" Jane is supposed to pay a visit to my parents for a few days next week. I don't want her to go. Not that I think she'll lack for anything while she's there; she won't. They'll take wonderful care of her. My reasons are purely selfish; I'm completely and utterly enjoying her company these days, and the thought of three days without her makes me cry. But I said yes, and when I mention that I don't really want her to go, the Amazing Pressure Machine gets cranked up another level.
3. A dry, hacking cough is a sign of immenent demise, right?
4. It's motherfucking hot. 83 degrees at 8:30 is not right. Not right at all. Today's expected to get into the upper 90s with a heat index of 105. So hot that the air around us is literally rotting. Mama's Girl and I will not be leaving the house, just as we did yesterday. But do you know what the worst is? Watching the news - and reading what I just wrote - people act like this is news. Like this doesn't happen every single summer. It's hot! Oh my fuck! It never gets hot and humid in St. Louis!!! The icecaps! What about the icecaps? Oh, wait ... The same thing happens when it rains. Or snows. Like our typical weather is a surprise. It's late June in St. Louis - what they hell did we expect? Frostbite?
5. I started writing a piece last night about Wednesday's fabulous Stonecutters gathering at my house, which I somehow managed to lose. Dammit.
6. Stupid motherfucking trackback spammers. I got 19 of 'em in an hour last night. So, trackbacks are closed. Not that they got used much for anything but spam, anyway. Stupid fucking slimeballs.
7. Bobby Flay is on my local news, and that makes me angry. Very angry.
8. Lately, it seems I can't get along with 90% of the people in my life.
9. If Chloe eats one more crayon I'm going to start feeding her Magic Markers and be done with it.
10. I hate being this bitchy. It makes me feel unclean.
Posted by Robin at June 24, 2005 08:19 AM
Comments
it's like your random friday shuffle, but more bitter!
Posted by: Wendy at June 24, 2005 09:15 AM
Bobby Flay is enough to make anyone go off the tracks in anger. It's doing the same heat thang here in Dallas so I feel your pain. It makes everyone crabby.
Posted by: Liz at June 24, 2005 09:37 AM
Hot and Crabby in NY too! Topping the list of things pissing me off at the moment? My son Jack went to school today, the last day, with the sole purpose of getting his report card. School let out at nine fucking thirty in the morning..the whole purpose of the day was getting the report cards. Would you believe that he FORGOT it! So I had to haul my lazy hot ass to the school to pick it up with both kids in tow. I suppose I'll have to give'em lunch and keep'em happy and laughing by standing on my head and singing songs and filling up pools in the backyard and picking up snotty friends to come play and making snacks and band-aiding cuts . I would kill for 3 days alone...do you think your parents would let you keep Clara Jane if I offered them my boys?
Posted by: Stillheidi at June 24, 2005 09:49 AM
i'm annoyed that i got a second shower today walking into work. why can't they water the lawns at night when no one is here?
the heat ticks me off, too. especially since i live in a house with no air conditioning.
Posted by: kara at June 24, 2005 10:40 AM
Bobby Flay is enough to make anyone a little miffed, especially my Japanese Sushi Chef FIL. He's still a little sore about him beating Morimoto and then standing on his cutting board. "That is so disrespectful! Stupid Bobby Fray!" (Imagine this line being said by a little asian man sitting on his sofa in PJ's with his fist in the air.) Ah, I love living with my in-laws.
Posted by: Jennifer at June 24, 2005 10:53 AM
I can't stand Bobby Flay either. He is just so darn smug and annoying and boring and....
Posted by: mrsfish at June 24, 2005 11:19 AM
Why is BF on our news? Why do you hate him so? This? http://nytimesweddings.blogspot.com/2005/02/bobby-flay-is-ass.html
Posted by: Jane at June 24, 2005 11:43 AM
Me again. I finally found the one about his wife and celery. http://www.backwash.com/content.php?jouid=5817
Posted by: Jane at June 24, 2005 11:52 AM
Gordon Ramsay could kick Bobby Flay's ass!
-Devin.
Posted by: Devin Olson at June 24, 2005 03:20 PM
There's something in the air today. Gonna try some rum to get me out of a crabby mood. Whatchagonnado?
Posted by: Marybeth at June 24, 2005 04:26 PM
You know, I've always thought the same thing about St. Louis summers. It's always hot. Guess what? In the winters, it's cold! (I suspect it's because most of the time, they're stretching for news anyway.)
Posted by: grace at June 24, 2005 04:59 PM
I love doing lists like this. I just did a list like this but it was too pissy so i didn't publish it... didn't want to get in another blog war.
Anyhow bitching is fuel for the (blog) fire.
Posted by: Kira at June 24, 2005 10:22 PM
i concur with all the bobby flay bashing. he gives me a rash FROM THE TV. smug dickwad, indeed.
Posted by: jenB at June 25, 2005 03:51 AM
mike said he would grill if you, brian and clara jane want to come out. it ain't coyote huntin' season, but we did see a commode in someone's front yard a few miles away. i guess they don't know we don't have bulk pick up out in these parts. i'll take you buy there to see it if you want....
lance misses you.
Posted by: PKB at June 25, 2005 09:08 PM
