Not sure which is worse:
Flirting With My Student Employee guy comming back
Or her not seeming to mind.

So are you "mentoring" said student employee? It's an honorable calling.
My dissolute mate Wilko once "mentored" three Medill journalism interns at once. Well, not actually simultaneously, but in quick succession.

essential system at work should be available for use by 8am (it updates data overnight). In the last 3 months it has been available at 8am approximately 5 times. Mostly it's not available until 12 or 1. It's one of the reasons I spend my mornings on mouthfuls.

I think it's a conspiracy to get me to buy lunch from the crappy building cafeteria, since now I have to work through lunch. I couldn't make it over to Chikubu for ramen.

For the last week or so, I've had to listen to the yowls of a cat in heat somewhere outside.

The scallops decided to poison me at last

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The NYU student in the apartment above mine who does not know that he does not know how to play guitar.

Why does Amazon.com list 21 of 25 'top items' as some sort of cooking related merchandise. I have *never* purchased or searched for anything of the kind on the site.

This is the kind of stuff that makes me paranoid and causes me to help fund the EFF.

Why do some patrons of the MFA feel a need to SHOUT their stupid impressions to their companions whilst I am trying to enjoy some fucking art in peace?

The man whose apartment is next to mine snores so loudly it wakes me up.

surely you can counter-program? some late-night polka music? preferably when you're not at home.

I clicked on something that totally screwed up my computer- I could turn on my computer but could not do anything else because of all the norton popups. I tried to restore the system to an earlier time but couldn't do it because I couldn't even click on the start menu.
Well I just spent the last 1 hour 23 minutes on Dell support. The first thing I said was that I wanted to do a systems restore but Sheila said it wouldn't help. Then she led me through a few other things that didn't work before transferring me over to a fee-based software support where I spent the last 51 minutes of the call on hold. While on hold I finally decided to try a systems restore on my own (which I realized that I could do in safe mode when Sheila was helping me), figuring it couldn't hurt. Worked perfectly. Thank goodness I could fix it, but so much for the great Dell support and what a ridiculous waste of my night.

taking my coat off last night I tripped and smashed my hand through the glass in the front door. very fucking annoying. had to call out glazier and replace lovely original glass with new horrible modern stuff. hand ok apart from some superficial grazes.

Oh AmpleT, I'm sorry to hear that.

Today's annoyance is my cat. I'm working from home, and she's in my lap. Instead of being grateful/happy/content to have a lap on a Monday, she's actually getting ticked off at me for having the audacity to TYPE while she sits on me.

A thief at work.

I have the flu

It must be one of the world's oldest annoyances, but for the past two weeks I've found myself constantly stepping in chewing gum. Does no one use the trash receptacle anymore? Any good methods for quick removal of gum from shoe?

From a pro-WD-40 web site:
To get sticky chewing gum off the bottom of shoe, spray the area with WD-40, wait one minute, then wipe it away with a paper towel. (Be sure and wash the sole of the shoe with soap and water to prevent slipping).

I've also had success with hardening it with ice and then picking it off with a nail file...

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Just finished another 2-hr. marathon phone conference on training policy. My ass hurts and I'm leaking spinal fluid from my ears.

i don't know how this has happened and don't want to jinx it but i haven't caught a cold in over 4 years. i'm tempted to start behaving like jeff bridges in "fearless".

I don't usually get colds. Instead I get sinus infections or bronchitis. I am bracing myself. This may impact a fun business trip I am due to take on Thursday.

It is hard to keep one's job out of the Annoyances thread. Endless pointless requests for information today. Add that to the weather, a looming dental procedure, failure to pinpoint a Valentine's Day present, and the general state of the universe, an altogether trying day.

I buy myself a bottle whiskey everytime I leave the dentists office because I hate the dentists (although I adore my new french dentist). I always feel I deserve a treat.

Citibank Paris, who claim they're unable to deposit a check (cheque) in dollars to my account at Citibank NY, and who won' simply cash it.

Effing programmers who think, that just because they write the program, they should design its content as well as the business strategies that determine how it works.

Just type you knuckle-dragging nim-witted inbred code monkey!!!!

Just watched The Brit Awards. The urban music award went to Joss Stone?

I've heard another version of the joke as a lawyer joke. Oh well...

Whiny rap/metal wankstains airing their tedious cock-length angst to an audience of a million morons. Caught the latest flavor of the month, Crossfade, on TV today and noticed that every single member of the band was sporting at least one annoying physical affectation, doubtless to try and complement the utter lack of originality in their actual sound. Soul patch, check. Bad goatee and baseball cap, check. Fauxhawk, check. Tribal tat and cut-rate piercings combo, check. And then there's the fan base who write Amazon reviews like: "These guys rule! Better than P.O.D. but not as good as Linkin Park!" Oh piss off.

Annoyances (and the ability to post here about them) are getting the best of my drive to be a more positive person who whines and worries less.

So here I am. It's Valentine's Day. I'm home, sick in bed and recently single after a 2+ year relationship ended. No big deal, but it's stupid Valentine's day (acting romantic on any day wasn't the ex's strong suit).

After awakening from another Nyquil-induced nap, I order food from a local pan-Asian place. I'm not terribly hungry, but feel like I should eat something. An hour post-ordering, no food. An hour and twenty five minutes later, the stuff shoes up. The very sweet deliverywoman (yes, woman) says very jubilantly in broken English as she leaves "HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!"

It gets worse. When I finished, I started scraping leftovers into tupperware for lunch tomorrow and I accidentally dump. the. whole. 2/3. that. remained. into. my. dish-filled. sink.

No lunch for tomorrow.

now go put everything but the girl's "walking wounded" in the cd player. (lyrics here.)

I wonder why shoelaces are made round and slippery (instead of flat and textured) so they come undone as one walks, unless one ties a double knot. Just a small annoyance, but one nevertheless.