sometimes...grrrr!

people are so rude! yesterday tested my patience. some teenagers (this is just speculation, but i think a very accurate speculation) wrote obscenities on one of the libraries computers and left it up for patrons to see (against chinese people and mormans [sic]), took half of a shelf of children's books and scattered them in the children's section (even hid them behind other shelves), and brought food into our computer lab. others were rude....talking to me while i am talking to someone else, demanding things, etc. i had more than five people give me the impatient huff/sigh/tapping of fingers on the counter. i understand that people have bad days, but seriously! the world doesn't revolve around you (mr-whiney-pants). what if i came to your work and did that to you, huh? anyway, sometimes i wonder where they learned their manners from....

blah.

i'm sick. functionally sick, which means i can't just lay in bed and be miserable because i'd be bored out of my mind. boooo...

you know what grinds my gears?

ok, so here's the deal. i'm on myspace. surprise surprise...everyone is. but what bothers me (grinds my gears) are those who put on their profile: "i'm only on here because i have nothing else to do" or "my friends made me sign up." i thought peer pressure ended at fifth grade, but whatever. they may not *want* to be on this site, but guess what? they are...so that that makes them as lame as they proclaim everyone else on there to be. holier-than-thou attitudes only work when you're not participating in the activity you're criticizing. instead of making other feel like losers by degrading them in the "about me" section, you are really just making yourself look silly.

i actually like networking sites. "but holly," you say, "there are predators on there..." umm...that's why there are privacy settings. you don't have to add everyone who wants to be your friend. you also don't have to seek out people to put on your friends list. i don't befriend people i haven't met in person. i also don't use myspace/facebook/friendster as popularity polls unlike many not-yet-legal kids who have thousands of friends. thousands of friends? wow, really? you are sooo cool especially having half naked wanna be strippers (with fantastic names such as 'DaNCiN LiKe a HO' and 'HOTTNESS 4 U') posting "thanks for the add" on your comment wall.

here is a funny take on networking sites from the daily show:




ps. can you guess what show i am referencing in my title?