a few points of irritation/confusion/joy

- ok so sometimes you're walking down the stairs (that are only wide enough to fit 2 people side by side) and two people are coming toward you the opposite way, walking next to each other. There is no way they won't have to adjust their positions, since even if you stop dead still they'd still have to go single file to get around you. Instead of doing this they continue walking normal even glancing up at you once or twice as if you should somehow disappear. Then at the last minute they try to squeeze around you, knocking you into the hand rail and giving a grumbled apology, as if the whole thing is your fault. If you do not shove them down the stairs you have reached saint status.

- sometimes you're sitting at your desk and you hear recorded talking very quietly and intermittently. you look around for the source. The lady normally making noise is being quiet. You check your co-workers desk and can't find anything. You tell her you're hearing voices. No one else can hear them but you certainly can. You start checking nearby offices. They aren't the source. At this point all the people in your area are trying to help you look while showing with their eyes they think you're slowly losing your mind. YOU start to think you're slowly losing your mind. Finally you realize it's your ipod you left your headphones plugged into playing a general conference talk. It's in your purse right next to your chair and has been the whole time.

- sometimes you're walking to class and you see a young black man with a 3 piece brown suit, black cowboy boots, earrings in both ears and a faux hawk (not easy with black hair) and just question reality or the basic saneness of the world around you.

- sometimes you walk to class and when you head for the seat you've sat in all semester you notice someone sitting there (note there are many empty seats all around). Do they not know the unwritten rules of seat ownership?????

- sometimes you are using the stumble feature on firefox and you run across a way awesome blog about pictures of dogs in san francisco and it makes you very happy and takes away some of the bad feelings that were pushing you to indulge in workplace violence.