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Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2009-12-30 10:06 pm

Grump.

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.

[identity profile] britmandelo.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
#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.)

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
My brain says a unit of ten shouldn't end on a nine.

[identity profile] theninth.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
But it starts with a zero.

[identity profile] sethb.livejournal.com 2009-12-31 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
The sixties ran through about 1972 or 1973.