i can be your hero, baby

i discovered the other day that yes, indeed, i really am an idiot. i had hoped that i had managed to escape the doom of mankind, but alas, 'twas not to be. everyone is, you know, and the sooner that each person comes to this realization, the better, in my opinion. fewer egos to deal with. what makes me extra special is that i am an extra gullible idiot. oh, the fun, the joy, the humiliation.

and no, i am not going to say what it is. only that the thing that i was so upset about, i really had no cause to be upset about. because i am an idiot.

i came up with a list the other day of things that i do not like. i was told that this was a very negative list, and that instead of saying things like "i hate stupidity" i could write "i admire intelligence". true, but that is not a very good example. i do not consider stupidity and intelligence to necessarily be antonyms, at least not in the sense that i mean. i think that i am fairly intelligent, but at the same time, i can be mind-numbingly stupid. for example, i hate stupidity in that it is a lack of common sense. but then, i guess i could say "i admire common sense" which i do. but that is not the point. some things cannot be put in a positive light and have the same meaning. maybe in a future post i will be more optimistic (despite all of my whining and complaining, i like to think that i am a fairly optimistic person) and make a positive list of traits i do admire and things i like.

so, here is my list and it's my list and i can make it how i want. if it's negative, fine. noone is forcing you to read it. and yes, some of the traits do pertain to me, and i hate these things in myself more than i do in anyone else. (these are in no particular order.)

1. stupidity as in lack of common sense
2. when i should have known - did know! - better (guess that falls under stupidity, but it happens enough that it merits its own line)
3. insincerity
4. dishonesty
5. people who chew with their mouth open
6. the grammatically-incorrect phrase "you've got mail"
7. bad grammar in general
8. the overuse of the words "get" and "got"
9. how gullible i am
10. total laziness (occasional weekend laziness perfectly acceptable)
11. smoking
12. sushi
13. traffic
14. people telling me how to drive
15. war
16. pain
17. immorality
18. trashiness
19. judgmental people
20. hot spinach
21. my inability to speak more than one language well
22. my inabiltiy to speak even english well
23. misleading people (esp. if they make you think that they like you when they don't)
24. clutter
25. slovenliness
26. people who whine and complain all of the time (hush, i already admitted to that)
27. condescension
28. being frustrated
29. becoming upset, esp. if i do not have a good reason
30. having people mad at me whom I care for
31. not being liked
33. the fact that i care so much what other people think of me
34. yelling
35. trendiness
36. constantly being asked why i do not have a boyfriend
37. being told why i do not have a boyfriend
38. moodiness
39. no sense of humor
40. toilet humor
41. heavy metal music
42. rap
43. people who do not listen
44. ignorance
45. when a code doesn't work because of some stupid, ridiculous, tiny error like forgetting to put a comma
46. overly competitive people
47. that time of month
48. smog
49. gore
50. wusses