Things That Are Annoying Me Today

• the fact that I can't import my "Born to Run" album to my iTunes without getting a dozen glitched out Springsteen songs
• my school's yearbook staff, who apparently just make up about 90% of the quotes in the yearbook
• the entire Republican Party
• that I haven't finished writing a poem in about a month, and a short story in God knows how long
• the Spanish verbs ser and ir, whose preterit tenses are EXACTLY THE SAME. I would really like to meet the genius who came up with that idea. "Hey, lets make two of the most used verbs in our language have the same past tense form, just to fuck with the gringos!" Jackass.
• Newsweek magazine, for saying that swine flu is "worse than SARS", and should be labeled a pandemic, a suggestion that insults actual pandemics like AIDS and the bubonic plague. So, over 2 million Africans are killed by malaria each year, but swine flu kills 13 people and its suddenly a threat to humanity?
• the awful suspicion that swine flu is actually going to become a full blown pandemic
• my sister's bitching