Most difficult aspects of your day S/D

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1. Getting up in the morning.

This unassailable mountain king of all my grievances is responsible for most of the pathos in my life. I am a man who has to set his alarm clock at least 1 hour to 90 minutes prior to my actual deadline for rolling out of bed since it takes about 10 instances of RING --> SNOOZE before I feel anything like surrendering to consciousness and AM hygiene. Kind of like how one overriding pain tends to drown out all others, the sheer unpleasantness of the waking sensation makes me unable to even ponder other things that might suck on any given day until I've been at work for at least an hour.

2. Driving home from work.

I would rather get stuck at the office working for 2 extra hours than come home at least half the time if not more often. The evening commute into northwest DC where I live ALWAYS manages to take longer than my morning drive, and it involves 6 times as much insanity, usually in the form of delivery trucks, taxicabs, tourists, taxicabs, buses, and the occasional taxicab. After spending an hour or more learning to hate the living shit out of the city I have chosen to dwell in, I arrive home to pervasive loneliness, dirty laundry piling up, an empty fridge and bills in the mailbox. Much like #1, the resultant malaise persists for hours at a time and sometimes even until I crawl into bed after repeated failures at turning my evening around.

I'm done. Now you complain.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

at least you have a job.

― hstencil, Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

stence wins. thread over.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

that one time, every day, when I realize what I've given up to get what I have, when I stare the monster of What Could Have Been right in its shiny metal teeth and it dares me to punch it and I wuss out and back down and slink back to my careful comfort

usually this is when I start drinking, or stop drinking

― Begs2Differ, Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, i have a job too. bully for me.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(xpost) I agree. I only have a 20 minute commute normally but when I stay late, it becomes a 10 minute trek and somehow, that makes sense to me.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

My main complaint would be when you wake up and everything looks fine but is completely terrible. Sure, you look great ... but the shirt doesn't fit you properly sleeves a little short maybe, your hair isn't looking quite up to par, you missed a spot shaving ... etc ad nauseum.

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

You just described my morings totally Tom. I spend ages pressing snooze, but occassionally I just turn it off (the buttons are very close together and I find it hard to think before 11am).

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Somehow quietening the screaming voices so that perhaps I can get at least 45 minutes of feverish sleep.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Going to complain at the bank. Apperently available funds and balance are entirely different things. $70.00 worth of difference. When I put a check into my account on dec 31st and I wrote a check on the 5th (after checking to make sure my balance was high enough) the check I wrote cleared before the check I deposited did and was returned. Looking at the statement they sent me it has balance listed which is high enoug, it has insuficent funds fee, negative amount (which on my statement is a positive number) and it has check amount. No mention of available funds.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Daily interaction with retarded whistle-heads leeches who purport to be clever but can't even drool straight without whining or demanding something.

― Cthulhu Smash! (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i have a hard time getting to bed at the right time. which leads to the snooze-button addiction in the morning. but my gf pretty much told me if i kept it up with the multiple snooze method she would murder me.

― kephm, Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

future teachers of America look the fuck out!
xpost

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I found this alarm clock from Sharp where the snooze button is actually in the feet on the bottom of the clock, so all you have to do to put it into snooze is hit it on top, no aiming or anything. It's possibly the greatest invention of all time. Also it has 3 different tones so when I get used to one I can just switch. I should have bought six of them.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose I'm spoilt because geeking isn't generally a profession that's big on early mornings, but lately it's been in-at-9, and, being a night person, it really feels like I'm killing a bit of myself everytime I get up. Six hours sleep is a complete bastard for that, due to sleep cycles - it's genuinely easier to get up after four hours than six. Except then there's next to no chance of any thinkwork getting done during the day.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

This thing!!! I only wish it were a little louder.
http://www.officedepot.com/pictures/SK/MD/105105_sk_md.jpg

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom, everything sounds great and makes perfect sense until I should have bought six of them.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I should have bought five of them?

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

it depends. how many do you irreparably smash on average, per year?

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hate that crashing feeling every day when i realise i'm not going to be famous, or even locally well-known...my apartment neighbors don't even know my name (cue Alicia Keys)

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My days flow by with nary a hitch.

Best part of the morning: sitting on the edge of the bed blankly staring at a Gordon Lightfoot album cover for twenty minutes without realizing you're awake and should really go take a piss.

― andy, Thursday, 29 January 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Through no fault of my own I appear to have become H.G. W3lls's film agent. Anyone want to buy some rights?

(on this thread because it's complicated and time-consuming and scary)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

If we kill you, are there no more bad films made?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

What? We're all thinking it!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The unwind between work finishing and going to bed. I generally finish between midnight and two, and I need at least three hours to get it all out of my system. Which is why I'm generally here at this time, and also why I drink a lot, and why the next day is ineivitably a washout bar work.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

this feeling RIGHT NOW where i know i have shitloads of work to do and i am putting it off and putting it off and i know soon someone is going to come ask me something stupid

― mullygrubber (gaz), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I go to work at 5:30 a.m., very few people on the roads then. There's a 100-yard stretch of my route that has three stoplights on it, seriously it's like a stoplight every five car-lengths. They're not timed and they're not the kind that will change if you pull up to the intersection. They're just totally random. Once in a while they will all be green and I'll sail through, but more often I have to wait at each one. Unless I just run them, but they're kinda blind off-ramps and that's not smart. Going home at 5, it's all clogged up and frustrating. Also at the end of the news where they talk about the people who died in Iraq, that's getting more difficult all the time.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 30 January 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

1) getting out of warm bed
2) trying to not read/post on ILX all day

it's not that hard a life

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 30 January 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Not finding the enthusiasm to study for an exam I have in like 8 hours time.

― bumsawayboohoo, Friday, 30 January 2004 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

The alarm clock mentioned above has since stopped working (speaker cone busted) and I got a new one from Sony which kind of does the job but on a couple of occasions hasn't gone off at all for whatever reason and that sucked. Getting up in the morning remains a massive, massive obstacle to attaining any sort of inner peace for me.

Driving home from work is no longer part of the equation since I work downtown and no longer own a car. The subway ride is much more relaxing.

The most difficult aspects of my days now besides the above are dealing with distance from my fiancee and the twice/thrice daily realization that this city is a tree sloth's armpit.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the 8 hours i am at work. the most boring 8 hours ever.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Living in Washington DC is fucking hell.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought the metro was fab but then i was a tourist. still, beats driving

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, wow, look at how the time passes. I have a job now and probably feel worse.

Also, difficult aspect of the day lately - breathing. Seriously, I've had these weird wheeze/cough for a couple days now. Should get it checked out.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

DC honestly has just about enough stuff in it to keep a person entertained for one week. After that, jack shit, unless you're into really rude panhandlers/college students.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a panhandling college student, I ought to fit right in

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Trust me, Trace, it actually doesn't help, amazingly. Though the random dude that is always hanging out by the bodega who keeps trying to hit on me but doesn't speak English at all is kind of endearing.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss bodegas. It's much harder to hit on Muslim women.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Muslim women are not where it's at, dude. You need 60 year old men, any race. They're all over the hott young thangs like butter on the bread. Friday night I was walking around near Dupont Circle and this group of grandpas coming out of one of the hotels not too far from there were like "Hellloooo there young lady how YOU doin'?" And I'm like GOD you're like my DAD.

Not that my dad hits on me, I mean my dad is like in his 50s.

Never mind.

I just kind of want to know what the people who are always hanging outside the bodega do for a living.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

bodega security!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Last week I was walking to the El station and there was this woman in her 20's walking about 15 feet in front of me. I passed this old Hispanic man and he caught my eye, pointed at the girl's ass, and gave me a thumb's up and a wink.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Old men are so gross. Or awesome. Either way.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I passed this old Hispanic man and he caught my eye, pointed at the girl's ass, and gave me a thumb's up and a wink.

This is great, like he is letting you in on a secret about young women's butts. "They're STUFFED with EMERALDS!"

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Have ye heard the LEGEND of Cortoza's LOST ASS GOLD?"

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe that was his wordless way of saying he wanted your ass, Nick.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

He was in front of me! So he hadn't seen my ass yet.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"La parte más difícil de mi día es que deseo Nick's detrás."

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What better thing for old and young men to bond over than a nice ass?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Stickball.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ew.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops why are you funnier than usual today? Did you take your funny pills? (I'm serious, the micro machines thing on the other thread cracked me up, as did yr "ew" on this one)

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a year til i can get back to school and i'm stuck doing graphic design at this investment
banking firm and living with my girlfriend at her parents' house. i am a hypochondriac
and melodramatic. i hate most of the time that i'm standing or sitting still.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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