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Today's Pissiness
I feel much better about yesterday's stuff. Thanks, everyone. ^__^ You're all great.
So now, I whine about a totally random thing to replace yesterday's sincere panic attack of unworthiness: laundry day. The day I've been delaying for, like, three days -- not because I'm too lazy (if I weren't so lazy, I'd have done it weeks ago; this is the point where delaying is barely even an option) but because my other roommates are like, "Laundry? Yeah, we need to do it too. But not now." So I waited for them.
Today, I'm sitting here typing, doing website maintenance stuff, and Val comes in and starts packing up her laundry bags. I am temporarily confused. I ask her, "What's going on?" She says, "Me and Alicia are going to do laundry."
Okay, fine. Annoying that they've apparently missed the fact that I was going to do laundry, annoying that they chose to do it without notifying me, but whatever. I've learned that they do things like that sometimes. I weaseled my way to the truth before they went out, so no harm is done.
I finish typing up the thing and put up an away message without even warning anybody, close the door to get changed quickly, and grab my laundry stuff. I open the door again and Val and Alicia are gone. "They went out to press the button," Jess tells me, "and there were people in the elevator, so they couldn't hold it, and went down to do their laundry."
Without me. Charming. That's what I tell Alicia when I see her in the laundry room. Alicia tells me that she thought Val was waiting for me -- but Val was already in the laundry room with her. At what point did she get the impression Val was waiting for me? Maybe she just assumed and it was only as they were in the basement did she actually go, "Hey, Val. I guess you decided not to wait after all." Then Alicia tries to go up without me again, and I am not at all placated by the fact that Val lingers to wait for me.
I don't know. Maybe it's just me. But I think one of my biggest pet peeves -- and by pet peeves I mean "things that are absolutely 100% definitely going to piss me off" -- when people don't wait. You can whine and bitch at me to hurry up all you want, I know I will if I'm waiting for you. But when you just go on ahead without so much as letting me know, much less asking if I mind, it's mean. Feel free to hurl curses at me if you don't think I'm moving fast enough! But the bottom line is that I will always wait for a friend. Always. If it means being late to class, if it means getting the tail end of dinner, if it means waiting two goddamn minutes for the next elevator while somebody picks up socks -- I will wait until either that person is there or that person tells me to go on ahead.
This isn't the first time we've had this sort of argument: if you scale back in my LJ, you can see a really, really angry rant I had once when they left for a class we were all in without me, without my knowledge, while I was printing out a report. I can still get angry about that incident, because this is probably the topic that makes me angry the quickest.
Val does this all the time in particular -- I can't STAND it. She'll just be like, "I know that I'm leaving early, and it'll take you another thirty seconds to get ready, but I feel like going on ahead, goodbye," or, "Hmm, I can't find the others where we said we'd meet, I guess I'll just abandon them and let them spend thirty minutes looking for me as I go on ahead to our next destination." It infuriates me.
Why can't people be considerate? Is it really so difficult to show even such a simple thoughtfulness for a friend? I don't mind if they forget my birthday for the rest of my life, or if Alicia smacks me on the ass as I walk by once a week or so, or if Val refuses for the millionth time to let me order my damn Chinese food because she'd rather pay more money for something she'd get less of because at least she knows she'll eat it all -- as long as they frigging WAIT FOR ME for the extra sixty seconds it took me to get changed and grab my quarters.
And Alicia, when you read this, just ignore it, okay? Trust me when I say that it's better for me to rant about it here instead of getting hysterical about it, say, tomorrow when it would otherwise have been buried and forgotten. This is how I keep myself from screaming out loud.
Nobody else take this very seriously either. This is a random whiny thing. In forty minutes I'll have forgotten about it. Until it's time to get my laundry... And nobody comes with me because THEIR laundry is all DONE.
In other news... The Planet Ladder translations are really, really terrible. At least, back in volume 1 they are. Really, really terrible.
I have so much reading to do for classes, and I'm in a Japanese essay/speech contest that I have to memorize this stupid thing for by TOMORROW or Kuwata-senseE will have my head for her belt. But in better news, I've finished the strange literary Ginji piece that I plan to use as my midterm in Creative Writing. Now where's Li-san so I can get it beta-read...?
So now, I whine about a totally random thing to replace yesterday's sincere panic attack of unworthiness: laundry day. The day I've been delaying for, like, three days -- not because I'm too lazy (if I weren't so lazy, I'd have done it weeks ago; this is the point where delaying is barely even an option) but because my other roommates are like, "Laundry? Yeah, we need to do it too. But not now." So I waited for them.
Today, I'm sitting here typing, doing website maintenance stuff, and Val comes in and starts packing up her laundry bags. I am temporarily confused. I ask her, "What's going on?" She says, "Me and Alicia are going to do laundry."
Okay, fine. Annoying that they've apparently missed the fact that I was going to do laundry, annoying that they chose to do it without notifying me, but whatever. I've learned that they do things like that sometimes. I weaseled my way to the truth before they went out, so no harm is done.
I finish typing up the thing and put up an away message without even warning anybody, close the door to get changed quickly, and grab my laundry stuff. I open the door again and Val and Alicia are gone. "They went out to press the button," Jess tells me, "and there were people in the elevator, so they couldn't hold it, and went down to do their laundry."
Without me. Charming. That's what I tell Alicia when I see her in the laundry room. Alicia tells me that she thought Val was waiting for me -- but Val was already in the laundry room with her. At what point did she get the impression Val was waiting for me? Maybe she just assumed and it was only as they were in the basement did she actually go, "Hey, Val. I guess you decided not to wait after all." Then Alicia tries to go up without me again, and I am not at all placated by the fact that Val lingers to wait for me.
I don't know. Maybe it's just me. But I think one of my biggest pet peeves -- and by pet peeves I mean "things that are absolutely 100% definitely going to piss me off" -- when people don't wait. You can whine and bitch at me to hurry up all you want, I know I will if I'm waiting for you. But when you just go on ahead without so much as letting me know, much less asking if I mind, it's mean. Feel free to hurl curses at me if you don't think I'm moving fast enough! But the bottom line is that I will always wait for a friend. Always. If it means being late to class, if it means getting the tail end of dinner, if it means waiting two goddamn minutes for the next elevator while somebody picks up socks -- I will wait until either that person is there or that person tells me to go on ahead.
This isn't the first time we've had this sort of argument: if you scale back in my LJ, you can see a really, really angry rant I had once when they left for a class we were all in without me, without my knowledge, while I was printing out a report. I can still get angry about that incident, because this is probably the topic that makes me angry the quickest.
Val does this all the time in particular -- I can't STAND it. She'll just be like, "I know that I'm leaving early, and it'll take you another thirty seconds to get ready, but I feel like going on ahead, goodbye," or, "Hmm, I can't find the others where we said we'd meet, I guess I'll just abandon them and let them spend thirty minutes looking for me as I go on ahead to our next destination." It infuriates me.
Why can't people be considerate? Is it really so difficult to show even such a simple thoughtfulness for a friend? I don't mind if they forget my birthday for the rest of my life, or if Alicia smacks me on the ass as I walk by once a week or so, or if Val refuses for the millionth time to let me order my damn Chinese food because she'd rather pay more money for something she'd get less of because at least she knows she'll eat it all -- as long as they frigging WAIT FOR ME for the extra sixty seconds it took me to get changed and grab my quarters.
And Alicia, when you read this, just ignore it, okay? Trust me when I say that it's better for me to rant about it here instead of getting hysterical about it, say, tomorrow when it would otherwise have been buried and forgotten. This is how I keep myself from screaming out loud.
Nobody else take this very seriously either. This is a random whiny thing. In forty minutes I'll have forgotten about it. Until it's time to get my laundry... And nobody comes with me because THEIR laundry is all DONE.
In other news... The Planet Ladder translations are really, really terrible. At least, back in volume 1 they are. Really, really terrible.
I have so much reading to do for classes, and I'm in a Japanese essay/speech contest that I have to memorize this stupid thing for by TOMORROW or Kuwata-senseE will have my head for her belt. But in better news, I've finished the strange literary Ginji piece that I plan to use as my midterm in Creative Writing. Now where's Li-san so I can get it beta-read...?
Not to get to random
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How go things in the anime world? I wanted to start again on my MK fics but didn't want to mess things up....
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(Anonymous) 2003-04-03 06:59 am (UTC)(link)Neh, Kay-san, I would've tried to comfort you yesterday 'cept that I'm in London and that I *am* one of those people who worship you (I hope it doesn't bother you...), but methinks it's justified because you are one of the nicest, coolest people I know.
So. It's great that you feel better about this. ^_^
As for friends and getting left behind, I'm sorry and surprised to hear that it happens to you, too. It kinda bothered me, too, when my friends left me behind at the airport. And at the marketplace in Paris. And the Louve. And Versailles. Perhaps my friends are implying something? Or perhaps I am just slow? Either way, I agree on the left behind front: It really sucks.
Ah! The computer is telling me I need to feed it more pounds soon. So I must take my leave.
.Nani
Re: Not to get to random
But she DID in the Japanese. The entire, like, three sentences of summary of the ninth world was replaced with a bizarre "Huh...? Wha...?" O_o It can't have NOT been deliberate.
*this is kay*
(Anonymous) 2003-04-04 12:37 am (UTC)(link)