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Things to Rant About
Apr. 30th, 2010 10:40 pmIt's been one of those days.
1. I was irrationally angry at a jar of tomato sauce earlier today. IT WOULD NOT OPEN. (Please to be noting this was a previously-opened jar, so it's not like there was a pressure seal or anything. Apparently, the Hulk used it last and screwed the lid on a bit too tight.) I banged on the lid, I banged on the bottom, I ran it under hot water for 10 minutes, but the lid WOULD NOT COME OFF. At the point when the ravioli was done cooking and I still hadn't gotten the jar open, I finally gave up and ate my ravioli without sauce. I actually contemplated trying to smash the glass jar, but, uh... it didn't work and I was afraid to whack it harder.
2. Last night's Fringe. WTF? I was tolerant of the whole "let's do an entire episode that takes place in the past and doesn't move the plot along" thing the first time, because we definitely needed the background on Walter and Peter, and it was better to show it to us than just have Walter sit there and tell Olivia the whole story. But this? A whole episode in Walter's tripped-out imagination? I mean, yeah, I get that there were supposed to be allusions to the present storyline (Peter is missing and stole Walter's heart - YOU ARE NOT SUBTLE, SHOW), but really? The noir detective motif? The singing? Which was totally bizarre and inconsistent and in no way even measures up to the Scrubs musical episode, let alone OMWF. Dude! Last week's episode ended on a HUGE development. We have been waiting ALL season to find out what would happen when Peter found out he was from the alternate dimension. And now he does, and we have to listen to Walter TELL A STORY for a whole episode instead of dealing with it? Bitch, please.
3. OMFG, I have a 15 page (single-spaced!) paper due tomorrow, and I was ALMOST DONE and Word totally quit on me and I lost 3 pages. Aside from the fact that it was a weird, bizarre technical glitch thing that shouldn't have happened (Why did it quit when I clicked "cancel"? Why didn't AutoRecover work??), talk about a momentum killer. I was DEVASTATED for at least 20 minutes. I screamed and cried and cursed myself for taking a break to watch Fringe when I thought I was almost done and now how am I going to finish in time WOE, and then I calmed down and rewrote the fucking thing and now it's done and so I feel better but I'm still kinda pissed.
I think this calls for ice cream.
1. I was irrationally angry at a jar of tomato sauce earlier today. IT WOULD NOT OPEN. (Please to be noting this was a previously-opened jar, so it's not like there was a pressure seal or anything. Apparently, the Hulk used it last and screwed the lid on a bit too tight.) I banged on the lid, I banged on the bottom, I ran it under hot water for 10 minutes, but the lid WOULD NOT COME OFF. At the point when the ravioli was done cooking and I still hadn't gotten the jar open, I finally gave up and ate my ravioli without sauce. I actually contemplated trying to smash the glass jar, but, uh... it didn't work and I was afraid to whack it harder.
2. Last night's Fringe. WTF? I was tolerant of the whole "let's do an entire episode that takes place in the past and doesn't move the plot along" thing the first time, because we definitely needed the background on Walter and Peter, and it was better to show it to us than just have Walter sit there and tell Olivia the whole story. But this? A whole episode in Walter's tripped-out imagination? I mean, yeah, I get that there were supposed to be allusions to the present storyline (Peter is missing and stole Walter's heart - YOU ARE NOT SUBTLE, SHOW), but really? The noir detective motif? The singing? Which was totally bizarre and inconsistent and in no way even measures up to the Scrubs musical episode, let alone OMWF. Dude! Last week's episode ended on a HUGE development. We have been waiting ALL season to find out what would happen when Peter found out he was from the alternate dimension. And now he does, and we have to listen to Walter TELL A STORY for a whole episode instead of dealing with it? Bitch, please.
3. OMFG, I have a 15 page (single-spaced!) paper due tomorrow, and I was ALMOST DONE and Word totally quit on me and I lost 3 pages. Aside from the fact that it was a weird, bizarre technical glitch thing that shouldn't have happened (Why did it quit when I clicked "cancel"? Why didn't AutoRecover work??), talk about a momentum killer. I was DEVASTATED for at least 20 minutes. I screamed and cried and cursed myself for taking a break to watch Fringe when I thought I was almost done and now how am I going to finish in time WOE, and then I calmed down and rewrote the fucking thing and now it's done and so I feel better but I'm still kinda pissed.
I think this calls for ice cream.
