A Thousand Things That Piss Me Off (Part 23)
476. I’ve been out of university for more than six years. But every time September rolls around, a part of me gets nostalgic and wishes I was still a student. Not that the rational part of me that likes having a job and doesn’t want to go back to school for no reason doesn’t win out every time, but you know what I mean.
477. I heard that a woman down in South Dakota got a trophy this week for being the ten millionth person to point out that Sarah Palin looks like Tina Fey.
478. That’s pretty much the only thing that most people know about Sarah Palin, other than the fact that she’s from Alaska and she might be America’s next vice president.
479. In fact, there’s a pretty good chance she could become the president during the next four years. John McCain is seventy-two years old, and if he wins the election, then he may very well die by the end of his term. If that happens, then the mystery woman recruited to jazz up his ticket will suddenly be the leader of the free world.
480. Can you believe the Republicans managed to gain some ground against the Democrats, however temporarily, just by putting a woman in front of the cameras? I’d like a full report of everything said by the Republicans about Hillary Clinton while she was still in the running. Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but I think it might reveal some inconsistencies on the Republican view of women on the 2008 ticket.
481. Hating a job that you can’t afford to quit.
482. Hating a job that you can totally afford to quit, and knowing that the only reason you haven’t is because you’re afraid of unemployment.
483. Worrying that the people at my office will somehow find out about this blog, read this post, and assume I’m talking about my current job. I actually really like my job, and I’d really hate to blow it.
484. I wish I’d appreciated my teenage years a little bit more at the time, instead of just being bummed out and awkward.
485. I also wish I’d had more of an appreciation of all the MuchMusic I watched at the time, because wow! That channel really went to hell! Remember when they used to play music, supported Canadian artists, and didn’t have a total oxymoron for a name?
486. Speaking of which, why is MuchMoreMusic running old Party of Five episodes? Is Neve Campbell in a band these days or something? I mean, I know there’s music in the show itself, but that’s true of just about every show that’s ever aired on television, except for The Colgate No Music Whatsoever Hour. And to be fair, I made that one up.
487. I overheard a woman on her phone saying she was working at “some gay fashion show” the following day. I didn’t know whether or not to get privately indignant about it, because I couldn’t tell if she meant it literally.
488. The workshop that I was supposed to attend in the Annex this morning was canceled, and I didn’t find out about it until I got there.
489. Ten after nine in the morning is far too early to go to a pub, which is what I usually do when I’m in the Annex and I’ve got a little time to kill. Again, if I was a student, it probably wouldn’t matter. But in the working world, I hear that getting drunk first thing in the morning is actually pretty frowned upon.
490. There’s a home pregnancy test that’s being sold as “the most advanced piece of technology you will ever pee on”. Man, don’t act like you know me!