Things I Hate This Morning

And now, for the Thursday edition of Things I Hate!

• Bees.
  Or wasps, or hornets. One flew up to me this morning, buzzing around my chest and I made a squealy frightened noise and tried to dodge into traffic to avoid it. Then it went towards my ear, so I bolted.


• Fruit flies.
  They're all around right now, because all I eat at work is fruit and yogurt. Dumping out my garbage can doesn't work, either - the dumpster is full of them, too, and they follow me back. I think I spend more time crushing the damn things than working.


• Microsoft Excel.
  I hate doing price lists, I hate spreadsheets, and I hate that I can't figure out the trick to keeping one variable... er... invariable, while changing another. Typing =C#*D3 and =C#*E3 forty-odd times is getting to me. Six pages to go.


• Any hour prior to 11 AM.
  I might be generous and say 10 AM is also OK, but anything before 9 AM is evil. And I get up at 7:15. Hate.


• Unnecessary air conditioning.
  It's 18 degrees outside, there is NO reason to have the air conditioning on the bus set to sub-zero temperatures. I couldn't sleep even when I put my sweater on, that's how cold it was.

I'm sure I could think of more, but those are just the things bugging me this morning...