Having said that, for all that is good and wonderful in life, there are some pretty suck-ass fucking things that piss me off. All too often I hold in that which irks me. I'm also smart enough to know that a lot of what pisses me off is my own reaction to situations that I fuck up all on my own, but hey, I'm but a mere mortal. Someday I'll get it right. Maybe.
In any case, I've decided it might be "therapeutic" to create a list of things I am hating. Maybe "hate" isn't the best word, but it feels good to embrace hate right now. Negativity is a draining emotion and sometimes, its best to just let it out in a safe place. Y'know...get shit off one's chest.
My Hate List
- Meetings. Jesus Christ, was there ever another time suck of an activity where people merely gather to spit out their own agenda to a room full of people who are too busy tuning out, thinking about anything other than what is being talked about?
- High humidity. And people who say they love hot, sticky weather. WTF?? I'm never more de-motivated and energy-depleted than when I'm stuck in a hot, stuffy atmosphere. Also, humidity seriously fucks up my hair.
- Those Sarah MaClachlan Humane Society commericals featuring abused animals and one of her sappy, tear-jerking songs playing in the background. Good lord. I have to immediately change the channel when those commercials come on television.
- Terrestrial radio. I no longer have a CD player in my car and my sirius satellite radio is in-house only. I can never seem to find a radio station that plays more than one listen-able song in a row. What's worse is tuning into a station playing a song I dig and catching the last few bars of the tune right before the station lauches into a "three for Thursday Iron Maiden song-fest". Ick.
- Realizing I forgot to refill the ice cube tray.
- Discovering I have all the patience in the world for the clients I work for and little of it left over for the people who mean the most to me.
- People who initiate conversation by saying, "Can I tell you something?", when what they really mean is they are *going* to tell me whether I want to hear it or not.
- Slackers. I'm all for taking work-breaks and realize sometimes its more effective to take some time to rejuvenate so that the work can be better tackled after a lax period. But when I get the sense that there is little to no work ethic involved, I just want to slap these individuals. Repeatedly.
- Feeling vulnerable. Being afraid to trust my heart and unable to say what's in it.
- Parents who completely lose it on their children in stores or other public places. Sure, kids can be a handful and everyone is allowed to have a bad day. But there is no reason to scream like a lunatic and order a kid who is probably under 8 years old to "take control of your siblings" when it is clear that the parental figure has no concept of self-control whatsover in the first place.
- Glossy, "women's magazines".
- Forgetting what the answer to my "secret question" is when I'm having trouble logging into a website or program application.
- Women who tear each other down in the workplace. This is so unnecessary, disempowering, and a horrible way to set back any progress females have made in the working world.
- Feeling unfocused.
- Bottom lines and numbers games.
1 comments:
Have you ever had the meeting to talk about the meetings coming up? My joke is always that men created meetings to feel like things were getting done while women are actually getting the things done.
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