Less Clairvoyance = More Annoyance. Ugh..

[elpollodiablo]

Writing statements of purpose.

Blech.

[girl]

Even for me, who is like the champion at getting lost, tonight was a new record. I managed to walk by  the street I left my car on TWICE before I found it, then I missed a turn in Cambridge and ended up in Harvard Square--not a problem, cross the river, get on the Mass Pike, right? So I cross the river, spot the Prudential Building, which is relatively the direction I want, somehow go the other way and end up in Cambridge again (?!). . . I finally managed to get myself toward downtown Boston, which is not quite where I wanted to be, and then I missed the entrance I was going for, somehow ending up on Tremont St. I mean, it all worked out in the end and I'm home now, but still. I wonder, if I added up all the time I've spent lost, just how much time it would add up to. I should really get one of those GPS things.

[cool banana]

GOOD LUCK FOR EVERYONE IN EVERYTHING FIXING THEIR ANNOYANCE.

I have annoyance but I thought I'd take a different approach.

[Doctor Bob]

I was supposed to move house this weekend but it was postponed because the guy whose room I'm moving into is in the Pyrenees and he neglected to clean it out before he left.  I only found this out on Saturday moring as I was boxing up my stuff.

And I have a crazy busy week ahead of me in work (though maybe not including Saturday- MoS, that sucks, though I'd put myself in the 'stick with it' camp, even though it might be a real pain right now).

And then this morning when I got into work, I noticed that my favourite pencil had been interfered with - sharpened at both ends - by someone else.  This mightn't sound like much, but the pencil was a gift and can't be replaced.  It was a regular pencil, but was originally part of a set of 10 produced by my friend's graphic design company, each bearing the name of a significant 20th century design figure.  Mine said 'van der Rohe' until it was sharpened away.  (I suspect my colleague brought his kid in on Saturday and let the kid run around the office unsupervised.  Kid + mechanical pencil sharpener + oblivious parent = angry Dr Bob.)

[das kranke Tier]

also, I totally want to design the LPTJ commune in Florida.  heh.  it will be taco-shaped, I think...

I can be begin scouting locations ASAP!

[Daniel]

Is it truly so difficult to recharge an electric toothbrush?

[milesofsparks]

And then this morning when I got into work, I noticed that my favourite pencil had been interfered with - sharpened at both ends - by someone else. 

omg, this would KILL me.  I am very fetishistic about my pens and pencils.  I need to get a decoy pen for my boss who draws too hard with my pens and messes up the tips...

your pencil sounds really cool.  stupid kids.

[Greg Nog]

I'm mildly annoyed that tickets are not yet available for a production of Macbeth happening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February.  It's supposed to be a modern-dress thing featuring Patrick Stewart, and reviews seem pretty positive.  And if I can see it, that means I'll have then seen both main characters from X-Men in two of my favorite Shakespeare plays in the same theatre.

Damn it, tickets.  Go on sale.  Go on sale.  Let me buy you.

[elpollodiablo]

Did you pay an arm and a leg for those Lear tickets, Nog?

[Greg Nog]

No, we had almost the shittiest seats in the house, though it was a small enough theatre that I didn't really mind.  So they were thirty apiece.  Pretty reasonable, all things considered.

[DCDave]

I'm mildly annoyed that tickets are not yet available for a production of Macbeth happening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February.  It's supposed to be a modern-dress thing featuring Patrick Stewart, and reviews seem pretty positive.  And if I can see it, that means I'll have then seen both main characters from X-Men in two of my favorite Shakespeare plays in the same theatre.

Damn it, tickets.  Go on sale.  Go on sale.  Let me buy you.

Wow. What a brilliant trifecta.

[girl]

I'm mildly annoyed that tickets are not yet available for a production of Macbeth happening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in February.  It's supposed to be a modern-dress thing featuring Patrick Stewart, and reviews seem pretty positive.  And if I can see it, that means I'll have then seen both main characters from X-Men in two of my favorite Shakespeare plays in the same theatre.

Damn it, tickets.  Go on sale.  Go on sale.  Let me buy you.

Holy cow, that sounds awesome! Is that whole Royal Shakespeare Company tour coming to BAM? I read something about it in Vanity Fair.

[Andrew_TSKS]

haven't read the new thread at all. will get to it after i reply to this post from the old thread.

I just dropped 140 bucks to get my entire exhaust system reattached.  It had been hanging from the belly of my van by a MacGuyver'd up rig I threw together with an old extension cord on the side of a dark country road where the whole fucking works decided to fall off.

I'm currently spraying power steering fluid all over the fucking place wherever I drive.

I went on a tire-every-two-weeks budget plan at the beginning of August but that lasted about a day-and-a-half after I got the first new tire.  The remaining three are about 15,000 miles over their rating and are looking very, very bad.  I think there is a wood screw in the rear driver's side tire.  But it's not leaking...maybe the threads of the screw are keeping air from running out?

Not to mention, I swatted a fly on the inside of my windshield a couple years ago and shattered the whole fucking thing.  Got the bug, but I hear there's a hefty fine in the works for cracked windshields and lord knows mine has got more cracks than all the sidewalks in my town combined...

I hit a deer a year ago and my front right headlight/blinker consists of some white and yellow duct tape and some light bulbs hanging loose...

I dunno, it gets me to work and back but it sounds like they're cracking WAY down on a lot more than emissions shit.  FWIW a total lunatic told me all about it.

all of these things would have to be fixed in order to pass inspection in virginia, as would probably 6 other things that you can't even tell are wrong with your van. we don't have emissions inspections in my part of the state (though they do in the suburbs of dc), but a lot of things still get checked.

[bethany_m]

So I paid my excise tax ($70), registered my car ($40) and got two new tires ($150).  Two tires to go and I might be able to pass inspection!  But my car is more legal, and less of a death trap, so I won't complain.

[SPACERACE]

windshields are often covered under insurance, augo

[justinh]

I'm annoyed by a brutal head cold.  On the plus side, I get to stay home from work.   I hope drinking a bunch of coffee and eating really greasy hash browns helps head colds.

[elpollodiablo]

No, we had almost the shittiest seats in the house, though it was a small enough theatre that I didn't really mind.  So they were thirty apiece.  Pretty reasonable, all things considered.

Hell yeah! I'd pay double that, easily.

[elpollodiablo]

My Ford Escort has become a Ford Mustang... in terms of noise.

[YojimboMonkey]

That's funny, I was recently reading about a mustang that became an escort

[Andrew_TSKS]

jesus christ, i think jim just won the internet.

[Greg Nog]

No, we had almost the shittiest seats in the house, though it was a small enough theatre that I didn't really mind.  So they were thirty apiece.  Pretty reasonable, all things considered.

Hell yeah! I'd pay double that, easily.

I would have, too, but after seeing what a lackluster show it was, I'm glad I didn't.  Hopefully, MacPicard will be better.

[maggiego]

My sister-in-law hit my car last night, and it has a gash in its body that looks oddly human. It's all awkward because she and my brother feel terrible and want to fix it right away, but I just don't fucking care and think the whole thing is funny. But they're annoyed, so I am in the right thread.

[elpollodiablo]

Wait, it wasn't any good? I must have missed those posts!

[Greg Nog]

Yeah, my rundown was in the +/- thread.  It was okay, I guess, but I dunno, a whole lotta weird choices.  Hanging the fool was the oddest thing they did.

[das kranke Tier]

Man, my clavicle is bothering the hell out of me today.  It's this dull ache that keeps coming and going but just makes everything really uncomfortable.  I must've slept in a strange position or something last night...