In Sickness and Exams

January 19, 2008
Mood: Irritated

My patience seems to be wearing thin these past few days.

Maybe it's just the stress from midterms finally catching up on me. The late nights spent poring over the books, or maybe it's because of the flu.

I often find myself just sporting a fake smile when people talk to me. I don't like it. Not one little bit.

I need mood stabilizers.

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Okay, so Firefox (or blogger) decided to be a real pain and not let me post this thing. In an amazing case of serendipity though, that very thing has caused me to come up with several more ideas for this post.

Pet peeves.

We all have em.

1. Chain Letters

I bloody hate these. When I open my inbox and see an email from a friend, I expect a REAL message - not something about a dead 4 year old girl who will stuff me down the shower drain if I don't pass on the message to 500 strangers within the next 15 seconds.

Please. Spare me.

2. Friendster/MySpace Display Names

It might be a little hypocritical ranting about this, because my display name on Friendster is not my given name... But everyone I know knows that I use that codename. It was my codename throughout high school, so no one gives me shit about it.

However, it annoys me to no end to scroll through my friends list and see endless versions of "xXxEmOtEaRs4lYfxXx" and "fUcK_oFF". Stop it. Having names with letters that switch back and forth from lower case to uppercase does not make you cool. In fact, it makes it difficult for people to find you. So stop it.

3. Hip-Hop "Gangsters"

Oh yes. Forgive me for not thinking that grunting into a fucking microphone is talent. Forgive me for not "ooh"ing and gushing over that huge fucking diamond dangling from your neck while children die from hunger in Africa. Sorry for not humping you and giving you a fucking lap dance when you call women "hoes". (Ugh, that spelling hurts me)

4. Deliberate Wrong Spelling, Bad Grammar

This is the very thing that often deters me from reading my friends' blogs. Oh dear me. I know, it brings you great pleasure to type lYk tHiS, but believe me, it is far from pleasant to have to read a two page long rant about the injustices in the world when it's written like that. Type like normal people. It's not that hard. See? I'm writing normally and nothing bad's happened to me.

And need help on that grammar? Read some books.

5. Emo Pictures

Oh yes. You know these. People who blatantly state that they are fucking hardcore emo by posting a picture of their slit wrists. Look dude, if you're doing that, you are NOT depressed - you just fucking want attention. Real depressed people actually HIDE their wrists. That's why it's often difficult to help them, because they don't show their pain. They mask it. Posting a picture of your shallowly cut, barely bleeding wrists only makes you look like a whiny douchebag.


And bathroom pictures, WTF?! I always panic when a picture like that appears in my friends' profiles. It only means that they're descending down that slippery slope to emo land. Seriously. No one wants to fucking see your bathroom. Take a picture of yourself in your room, in the park, in your living room, in your classroom - ANYWHERE! But that bathroom? What's the message you want to send across there? "This is where I cry and slit my wrist because of the pain I feel inside! This is also where I shit and take a bath."

PLEASE! Spare us!


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Blogging is good therapy.

That's not even my whole list of pet peeves, but I'm feeling much better now. So yes. I'm done.