What with my severe sense of the exact, I have problems filling out forms. I really do like doing it, but I’d rather not add to my difficulties by slashing the wrong box. Unfortunately, the number of forms I have to fill out seems to balloon as I grow older and I have to fill [...]
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Paperwork
Posted in rant on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dish Washing (and other things that irritate me)
Posted in life, rant on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What with the eldest siblings gone, I am the oldest kid in my house. “And it isn’t funny, you guys! Come back!” Anyhow, in order to avoid depression and all-that-fun-ranting-stuff, I bring you my opinion on dish washing.
Dish washing is one of the great evils, up there with vacuuming and cleaning-someone-else’s-toothpaste-off-the-counter. Dish washing, however, has unique problems. Whereas with vacuuming, you can blow it off for a month before doing a quick job, dishes grow. When I washed several days of dishes while my parents were gone, I quickly realized that the entire house would be much more efficient eating off paper plates and never allowing leftover chicken in the refrigerator, cost-effective too, what with water restrictions. An even more cost-efficient way of reducing dishes would be not to use any at all, and use slap-dash vacuuming. Unfortunately, as I only have a miniature vacuum at my disposal, the job proved to be grueling. Thus I washed dishes.
I have two computer monitors hanging over my head. In the way of cleaning house, I wish to hurl them over a cliff. They sit in my room. In the case that my younger sister takes over my elder sister’s room, she will probably leave all of her furniture in our current room. I find this irritating. I know that Chris wishes her room to remain her own, but let it be know that I wish to hurl all the furniture my little sister leaves behind over a cliff. If you see a cliff, let me know.
Dissections also irritate me. Use paper plates or I will fling a perch at your head.
Time Travel
Posted in fiction, rant on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have of late discovered time travel. The most telling consequence is this: yesterday, it was July the 22 of 2008. However, the calender in my room reads April 29 2008 today. Thus, I must be enjoying the cool weather of April and not just the blast of the air conditioning.
Another of the more telling results is that I may now sit in front of the computer and instantly find myself two hours after of the time I sat down. On a downside, I do not seem to be able to revert to the time I sat down. The secret to time travel I must assume, then, is the Internet. It has been touted as “progress!” “A tool for education!” I must assume that the education they speak of is the inadvertent discovery of time management and progress is the rate at which the Internet speeds through your available time.
But it is not only the Internet, but work that seems to be involved in time travel. Absorbing work bends and stretches time instead of moving through it. Work, it would seem, is not a series of pipes. But as I was saying, work always takes too much time. The difference is in perceived time and actual time. Work I enjoy tends to take actual time instead of the reverse.
The secret to time travel, I suppose, is a change in typical state. Time tends to move slow when doing something on hours on end, does it not? I recommend you don’t do anything; at least then the date on your calender won’t change.
(My Life is) Up in the Air
Posted in life, rant on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is special. I celebrate two years of blogging today. (Though my first attempt was really on April 22 2006)
Lots of stuff is in the air this week. For one, our neighbor has a swimming pool; and because stuff from half of our pines is getting in it, he’ll pay to take them down. Charming, [...]
Art and cleanliness
Posted in life, rant, tagged art, cleaning on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Having been sick in the last week, I look terrible; however, my room is pretty and with that I am happy. We have also been cleaning out our storage area and with much joy, I have received some of my mother’s old clothing which was buried there. I guess it should tell me something that [...]
Extreme shopping
Posted in life, rant on August 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I had a post about a week ago….but the laptop ate it. “It wasn’t my fault!” *ahem*
We went shopping last night at Wal-Mart because my current hiking boots are several sizes too big. I discovered that as Wal-Mart only carries what the rest of my insane age group wears; boots are now a specialty item, [...]
“Math is broken”
Posted in life, rant, school on May 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hello, besides wanting to kill my math book, things are pretty good here. James is home from college. I’ve joined a robotics team, and things are generally ok.
On the subject of the math book. I’ve just spent four hours correcting tests and trying to see how the book wants me to solve problems before I [...]
Star Treck and LOTR
Posted in fiction, rant, tagged reviews, writing on March 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
So, I’m sitting here thinking (and battling a bout of writer’s block) and reflect “You know, a lot a people imitate LOTR.”
I mean, think about it; it only became a really big hit when someone(s) smart in the movie industry found the book and said,
“Hey, this Tolkien character could write! Let’s make a movie!” It’s [...]
Christmas Catalogs
Posted in life, rant on November 25, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Hi, This is a post I wrote in early November, but because I am lazy, I let it sit a while so I could eventually edit it down.
Ah, the season of giving! As you have probably noticed, after the Halloween period of sale has passed, retailers go almost directly (if [...]
The Bet
Posted in life, rant, school on October 20, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I am not a very language oriented person. I mean, I love books and I love writing; but I am a slow reader. Not because I have a hard time reading, far from it, but because I like to stop and think about the book and experience it mentally. Because of this, as [...]
