Grump.

[truepenny]

I am grumpy today. Because:

1. As of three days ago, I'm not dripping blood from an unmentionable orifice any longer, but I am continuing to have sporadic cramps. (Not, I hasten to add, particularly BAD cramps, although we're definitely past ow and into Ow!.) Considering that the cramps are the REASON I'm putting myself through this varied and exciting hell, I find the irony less than amusing.

2. Laundry. It had to be done before the laundry shoggoth got ambitious and ate a cat, but nobody can make me be gracious about it. On the plus side, I have yet again not killed myself going down the basement stairs with a full laundry basket.

3. I am one of those incredibly annoying people who get all pedantic and fussy about how the decade doesn't end with 2009. It ends with 2010. I realize that I'm being annoying, pedantic, and irredeemably fussy--but that only adds to my grumpiness.

(GUILDENSTERN: Let it go.
ROSENCRANTZ: But it's wrong!
GUILDENSTERN: I know. Believe me. Let. It. Go.
ROSENCRANTZ: But--!
[Guildenstern commences to beat Rosencrantz about the head and ears with a pillow]
ROSENCRANTZ: [muffled but defiant] It's still wrong!)

4. The goblin book is stuck. Yes, with a month to deadline. I'm fairly confident I'll get unstuck quickly, but that doesn't, unfortunately, do much for the part wherein I am stuck and I hate it.

5. The credit card statement came today. 'Nuff said.

Comments

[cow.livejournal.com]

I am with you on #3, and have already had many an obnoxious discussion.

And I am the lone arts student in a company of computer science geeks! You'd think they, of all people, would get the difference between zero- and one-indexed arrays. Augh. }:D

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

2. My method (which drives the spouse crazy, but he did not grow up in a house with the laundry down a flight of treacherous and sneakily evil stairs and I did) is to fling the laundry down the stairs to the bottom and then descend at some point with the *empty* basket, transfer the laundry to the basket, carry it to the washing machine, and then transfer it to the washing machine. Once it has proceeded through the washing machine and the dryer, then it goes back into the basket.

I am much better at going *upstairs* with a full basket than I am at going *downstairs*.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I was just about to come and say that, except I have a very large zippered canvas bag, so when I fling said laundry it all stays together and I don't have to go and retrieve far-flung socks from odd places...

[neko-san.livejournal.com]

Another big agree on #3. I've managed to stay quiet at work, although I do sometimes explode about pickiness anyways. ("It's 'Yoruba', not 'Yoruban'!", halfway thought a meeting where everyone had been using the wrong descriptor.) We did have a nice turn-of-the century party on Dec. 31, 2000, however.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

#3: Piffle.

Well, the decade that began 1/1/2001 ends 12/31/2010. But the decade that began 1/1/2000 ends 12/31/2009.

Nobody counted from the year zero in the year zero anyway. Or the year one, or any of quite a number of later years. This is all a big retcon, and the question of which decade was what back then is irrelevant.

It's much more clear to have "the 1960s" be the years 1960-1969. Makes for easier pattern-match expressions, too.

[ckd]

It's simply a question of cardinal vs. ordinal nomenclature. Centuries are usually ordinal (20th, 21st) though sometimes cardinal (1700s, 1800s); decades seem to be almost universally cardinal (1980s, 1990s).

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

#3: While intellectually I know this is true, a decade to me just feels harmonious as year zero to year nine. (IE- "the sixties" usually don't include 1970, etc.) My brain gets all upset with the thought of ending on the zero. (Then again, as calendars are all subjective and made up, well. Hm.)

(Corrected. Didn't mean to reply to someone's unrelated comment earlier; whoops.)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

My brain says a unit of ten shouldn't end on a nine.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

But it starts with a zero.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

The sixties ran through about 1972 or 1973.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

You know, that sucks and I'm sorry. :-P

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you.
<3

Tomorrow we take it again from the top and see if we can't do a better job.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I hope you have less cause for grumpitude today.

As for the decade stuff, I don't care whether it goes 2000-2009 or 2001-2010 or 2002-2011, I just don't understand people who can come out with their favorite x of the decade if they like x at all, and if x is not incredibly rare. I have, for example, a Top Godson of the '00s, but that's because Master R. Evans is my only godson of the '00s. The last ten years are, give or take, the entirety of my adult life post-college. How can a person come up with the top ten books of their entire adults life? It makes no sense. It means they're not reading enough, is my suspicion, or else they're very cranky. (Not that I am not quite fond of some very cranky people.) And it's not just that I'm comparatively young. Decades are long. My Onie is 97, and she's only working on her tenth one. When she finishes it, she'll have as many decades as a nine-year-old has had Christmases. See? Not many at all to divvy up and compare like that.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, there's that, too.

It's still wrong!

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

:: nods ::

Indeed.

[inizitu.livejournal.com]

"It had to be done...but nobody can make me be gracious about it. "

That rather neatly sums up my feelings about chores and politics both. =p

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

I have to go down 3 flights of stairs to do my laundry, and doing merely one load, wash and then drying said load altogether comes to $4.50 -_-

If I want to do 2 loads, which all you ladies know would be preferable, it costs me $9 >.< So don't even talk to me about suck'a'roo laundry

:P

ALso, definitely feel you on credit card statement -_- being poor sucks

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

When all the media seem to think that the decade ends now, and not in 12 months' time, it makes me so, so annoyed. The 20th century was 100 years long - it did not end in 1999. GRRR!

I'm hoping that 2010, the last year of the first decade of the 21st century, is kinder than the previous 9!