And you should be too. Just think of all of the reasons to be irritated:
- I work at a public university. Each morning this week I have pulled in behind or in front of a student (you can tell by the parking tags) who has a much better car than I do.
- The Dow Jones went above 10,000 and everyone is crapping their pants with excitement. Um…did we forget about record unemployment rates and historically high underemployment? The struggle ain’t over, folks.
- I’m still (and forever will be) in the process of trying to find an agent for my novel. On Tuesday, I received approximately 6 rejections in a row. IN A ROW. Like they all got together and decided to make me feel down all at once.
- Working on a college campus means walking to meetings. Today I have to walk quite a bit to get to an early afternoon meeting…and it’s cold and dreary out. Why can’t the meeting be here?
- Ralph Lauren has decided that a size 2 (or size zero even) isn’t skinny enough for its advertisements.
- I woke up this morning needing desperately to go to the bathroom twenty minutes before my alarm went off. This means I lose that twenty minutes of sleep, because I can’t go back to bed at that point.
- The CD store that I was at last night with Mr. CVD and Mr. RMB didn’t have the new Michael Buble CD that I didn’t download from iTunes specifically because I wanted the physical CD.
- I am tired and a bit achy and feel like I’m either coming down with something or am so susceptible to coming down with something that I’ll be sick over the weekend. Weekend sickness sucks.
Well, most of those were for me. But feel free to bitch it out. Why are you irritated today?
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i work at a public university too and i hate cross campus meetings. (i hate meetings period lol) ugh and it’s too cold in michigan for the middle of october.
ralph lauren needs a punch in the head.
and the unemployment rate here is just plain sad
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because i’m at work today — after a rainy commute — working on a project that literally cannot be accomplished because of IT issues. so i’m sitting here reading blogs, at a desk, rather than at home, on my couch, while watching a movie. and i’m gonna have to travel through the rain when the day is over.
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I’m irritated because it’s my day off but instead of enjoying it, I’m doing stuff for someone else as a favour because I couldn’t remember how to say no.
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6 rejections in a row? How awful.
I’m so sorry, I know I would be terribly discouraged. But keep plugging at it, I know it will be accepted one of these days! Haven’t you heard that Twilight originally got rejected by several publishing companies? Haha, I bet they feel really dumb now!
Also, I definitely hate losing 20 minutes of sleep because the bathroom calls to me. Urgh.
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WHY would anyone photoshop a photo to look like that?! It’s one thing for models to be sickly skinny, but this goes beyond even looking human. So stupid.
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OMg the peeing thing ALWAYS happens to me. and i hold it. i seriously will sleep on a full bladder for twenty min to avoid waking up.
And I always noticed how college kids talk about being so poor but alwyas have the nicest freaking cars. minus me when i was in college.
what do you do at the university?
AND I’m irritated because its cold and because apparently im anemic or have bad blood circulation becuase i get cold too easily and because the speakers on my comp dont work and becuase i keep spelling because wrong and beccuase weekends are useless to me now.
and ralph lauren is an idiot.
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Ugh. I’m sorry about the rejections. Keep hope alive. It will happen for you.
I’m irritated because it’s so cold out. It’s like we totally skipped fall. Yuk.
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Oh lordy, those Ralph Lauren shops are just sick. Those girls don’t even look human! As if people didn’t have enough photoshopped prettypeople shoved down their throats. (Although that’s not pretty, that’s just ridiculous.)
And I TOTALLY agree with you on the have to pee 20 minutes before the alarm thing. Happens all the time, what a great way to start the morning… :[
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That Ralph Lauren girl looks like an alien? That’s supposed to be attractive?
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It’s Friday, and I’m irritated that I have to work another 6 hours before I’m on vacation.
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Yeah, I also do the sleep on a full bladder thing. It’s just so cozy in my bed…
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I saw that story about the Ralph Lauren model, and I thought, “Are you kidding me?” Did you see the retouched photo where they made her head ridiculously big and her body ridiculously small? I guess anything over a 00 is considered plus sized now, and models will be wearing negative numbers soon, if there is such a thing.
That thing with the bladder happens to me all the time, too, or I wake up to see if I have overslept and realize I have those 30 minutes left, but now, thanks to my own stupidity, can’t use them.
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