Reactionary

And the list of things annoying me are:

1. The merciless heat: Why do I have the air on in October? Why am I not being allowed to don my trenches and tweed and sky high pumps? Why am I still in sandals? It’s October! I’m just glad to hear snow’s falling in the Rockies, otherwise I really would be watching the skies waiting for the world to end.

2. The computer: Sometime in September I was at my desk doing my usual web surf/ e-mail/ iTunes thing when the music stopped. And then I heard it, a mechanical clicking sound coming from somewhere behind my 20-inch screen. I’ve used it sparingly since and have had to do the bulk of my e-mailing and web surfing on my laptop which is where I’m writing this right now. But I never meant the laptop to be more than the slimmed down version of the mother ship and with the advent of the new fall season on TV etc, I have no mother ship to host all those things and I can’t and won’t use the laptop’s puny 40GB disc to download that stuff onto it. I miss waking up to Mozart, too. My desktop is the center of my life. I can hardly wait until Leopard comes out so I can trade it in. I really don’t like the turn to black in the new iMac models, though. I love my all white and I’ll miss it when it’s gone.

3. Gmail on the iPod touch: The machine or the Safari version on it does not recognize the text area on a Gmail compose screen as a text area. I could not be more annoyed. What’s life without Gmail. Does the iPhone render it correctly? Anyone?

4. The Mole: Stories of her have to come to me from all kinds of sources along with admonitions that I chose the worst time ever to go on vacation. My goal for work now is to not shove a metz in her eye.

5. The spiraling dollar: There go my European vacations. Goddamn it!

6. My feet: Those adorable Miss Sixty shoes didn’t fit. I hate them.

7. Mormonism: I just read Under the Banner of Heaven. Hair-raising doesn’t do it justice. Imagine I had all that swilling around me as I innocently grew up there. The horror.

8. Travis released an album behind my back. The only reason I miss Tower is that I used to read Q there and got all caught up on the hipness.

9. Increasing rent and I didn’t even see it coming. If I were smart, I would have found another home and had it all figured out before they approached me about renewing the lease. And I still haven’t been able to talk to the woman about it. We keep playing phone tag.

10. Mixed Signals.

Now things are are making it bearable in spite of those ten annoying things.

1. You Know Who.

2. Cool friends: It’s exhausting being the emcee for all social events but if I didn’t do it, no one would. Cool People are fun to hang out with, they just suck at planning. Ever since when have I been the glue that holds people together?

3. The fall if it ever cools off. If it doesn’t, I’m moving to Scotland.

4. The new Sephora: No more running to Manhattan for concealer. I love all my new makeup. You should see my nail polish job I just did on myself.

5. iPod touch: Besides the Gmail issue and there not being enough free WiFi in this city, it’s unbelievably cool and far more responsive than I remember it being in the store. I’ll get my free Nokia from AT&T, be able to swap out SIM cards if I’m ever allowed to leave the country again with my worthless dollars, and pay nothing extra.

6. Cordani: Cool Italian shoes where a 10 means a 10.

7. To finally getting my own locker again. It’s the little things, people.

8. Irish pubs close to work so people don’t have to move their cars.

9. The fall concert season. First up? Rigoletto

10. My reawakened desire to read. It died for a while.

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