You know what's annoying?

[The_Tourist]

deposition got canceled, so the boss will be in the office harassing me instead of being gone all day.

[elpollodiablo]

I'm pretty annoyed that I will NOT be seeing No Country for Old Men tonight because apparently Wooster is the only mid-sized city in the STATE not starting it tonight, but the rest of today is so superriffic I am cool with it.

[jebreject]

I'm going to see it Friday, so I'm not at all annoyed about anything. Except this forum lately. FFS.

[SPACERACE]

monday thru wednesday were bad enough.

it's a fuck you thursday.

[slow west vultures]

i'm annoyed because i posted a pretty simple question on this thyroid forum, didn't really get one concrete answer to my question, but instead got about ten people trying to diagnose me and tell me i needed to switch medicines - i would feel SO much better, and that i don't need to be on an antidepressant.  because they can tell that, y'know having read one question where i barely mentioned anything about it.  gah.  i hate doctors, but people on the internet sure don't do much to bolster my confidence in other people either. 

[heather]

^superscript can't take you anywhere

i love you jebbie.

[jebreject]

right back at you heater!

[andronicus]

God damn it, I need someone to find me a copy of a dissertation submitted to the University of Bonn.

[El_Josharino]

So according to this dude I work with, if this year is like last year, we don't get shit extra for working on Thanksgiving or today or anything. Which is bullshit, because when I first interviewed for this gig they told me that there'd be some working on holidays, but that there was some kind of bonus or something and that they "make sure it's worth our while to be there on a holiday if we have to be." Fuckers bent me over and didn't even spit on it before they stuck it in.

[Andrew_TSKS]

these two families who are friends and who are both regular customers at my store have been hanging out here for three motherfucking hours. seriously, i know we're supposed to set up a hospitable environment which is why we have couches and shit, but COME ON! they've been acting like they were juuuuust about to leave for at least 20 minutes, but they all keep getting up and using the bathroom one at a time, and then standing around for a few minutes, and then someone else will go to the bathroom... god, GET THE FUCK OUT!

[milesofsparks]

my internet at home is broken and my cell phone battery completely died.  thank god for internet cafes.  a day of communication difficulties....

[diesel_powered]

STUPID LANDLORD NEIGHBOR CHOPPING WOOD AT 8:41 PM SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY.

[auto-da-fey]

So I just got home after a mini-weekend away, and Gaby's family has invaded our apartment. Her mother threw away one of my cooking pans because she thought it looked old and funky (which it did, but it was fucking mine, goddamnit! why the fuck would anyone throw away shit that wasn't theirs?), and her 21-year-old brother broke our toilet handle and then rejected the veracity of human evolution, because apparently the evangelical Christian girl he's now dating has warped his mind. I really don't dislike these people at all, but I really wish they would fucking leave, now. 

(also Gaby is as exasperated as me, and she's so desperately apologetic that I'm turning all sweet and sentimental towards her even as I scheme about future ways to prevent her family from ever returning to my place of dwelling, a project with which she is in complete agreement, fortunately)

[RoyBiggins]

I dont' mean this in a snarky way, Whit, but...when company comes, do you hide your porn?  I mean, I don't think your apartment is strewn with it, but...I mean, I have one questionable item to my name, that being my Foxy Oil Wrestling tape, but I always question whether or not I should just not even keep that on my shelf for fun when folks are coming over. 

[auto-da-fey]

I dont' mean this in a snarky way, Whit, but...when company comes, do you hide your porn?

Not "hide," exactly, but I usually keep it a bit out of the way, in the one shelf with a door on our TV set-up. Judging by the fact that my DVD's are strewn across the living room right now, I'd say there's a good chance that someone in her family encountered my "cult porn directors of the 1970s" collection. This doesn't really faze me, though; I'd practically pop one on right now if it would inspire everyone to leave.

The thing that everyone always notices first anyway, though, is the bookshelf, since it's filled with numerous books on porn, gay & lesbian studies, and the history of sexuality, so I do always get Catholic family members (hers and mine) casting curious glances at Fear of a Queer Planet, Porn Studies, or Public Sex.

[hannah]

I, for one, saw no porn lying around or out-and-about in my visit to your abode, but things could've changed since last January.

And I, for one, am annoyed that I keep on getting surges of anxiety that I fear will cripple me soon enough, but that "soon enough" has yet to occur, thus worrying and annoying me further.

[diesel_powered]

Okay, this one's an obscure reference, but does anyone remember that Annie Liebowitz file photo of Rev. Lovejoy on the pile of bibles from an episode of the Simpsons?


That's pretty much how I envision Whit. Only with pr0n instead of bibles.




Also... vacation over + insane pile of work = annoyed.

[auto-da-fey]

I think everyone would be disappointed by the paucity of my actual porn collection, which mostly exists on anonymous-looking VHS tapes, though I guess it does contain some obscurities you might be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.

Anyway, my apartment is all mine again, but I remain annoyed because my lady's mother left a legacy in the form of a severely-clogged kitchen sink that took me a few hours to unclog. The untwisted-coat-hanger-wire failed, as did the Drano that my landlord explicitly told me never to use, then an internet-recommended baking-soda-and-vinegar bomb seemed to make incremental progress, but it finally took a plunger (purchased for the occasion, because using a toilet plunger in the kitchen sink strikes me as pretty nasty) to dislodge whatever the fuck the woman sent down our drain.  I'm relieved to no longer have putrid pipe-gunk floating up into my sink, but after taking care of that and then disinfecting and cleaning the sink, I've made it to noon with nothing else to show for my day, when I could already have a blaxploitation flick under my belt. Fuck!

[kadiekatRN]

I've now had two mysterious debitcard "purchases."  It is posted to "sant cugat de [date] segundamano."  Each transaction is for $10.38 with a ten cent transaction fee.  I'm calling my bank tomorrow morning, but what the fuck?  I noticed one charge yesterday, but I thought that it was maybe a gas station stop for sodas an candy or something.  However, it is clearly not that, because I have not made identical purchases, nor have I gone anywhere out of the ordinary.  Or anywhere in Spain or the general Spanish speaking world.  Also, my debit card is in its rightful place in my wallet.

But if someone was fraudulently using my bank account, why are the transactions so small?

Anyway, weirdness is abound.

I plan to call the bank tomorrow.  Right now, the only way I can do anything is to report the card lost or stolen.  But again, the card is in my possession.  Jesus, this irritates me.

[jebreject]

You should def report the card stolen, K.

Hopefully you are not a victim of identity theft!

[auto-da-fey]

I'm with Jeb, Katie--if you're certain you didn't make those purchases or withdrawals, report the card stolen right away. This exact thing happened to Gaby several months ago (there's actually a thread I made on identity theft somewhere in the White Courtesy Phone): the card never physically left her hands, but someone wiped out her entire bank account and overdrafted something like nine hundred bucks. It happened over the course of a few days, too, so if she had been checking her account regularly, she could have caught it earlier than she did (on which, as a side note, I still find it really disconcerting that it happened precisely while she came to visit me in Miami, as if someone knew she'd be in transit and unlikely to be checking her bank account online).

Anyway, just my unsolicited advice. I hope it turns out to be nothing.

[jebreject]

yeah if i were you i could report the card stolen right now

[kadiekatRN]

I just reported it lost/stolen.  Will call the bank tomorrow to talk about these charges.  Only $20.95, but still!  Who the fuck is sending my money to offshore accounts?!  I'm much less likely to use my card online again.

[diesel_powered]

It's good that you reported it. And it doesn't have to be some kind of wierdo offshore account, either. The gas station in my neighborhood comes up in my bank account as "SHIMOUN PET". It took a number of days of mild freaking out before I finally figured out that the name of the company that runs the place is something like "SHIMOUN PETROL INCORPORATED" and the bank just shortened it to something strange. So here's to hoping it's not actually identity theft but rather something weird like that.

[alexandra]

not sleeping! that's fucking annoying.