things that are frustrating as hell

- teenagers. just in general.

- when you desperately want to make your children happy but there's very little you can do to make the world work out the right way for them other than stand at the side and hope.

- when your child claims to want something very much but still fails to do things in a timely manner.

- that teenagers don't think like adults even though they are larger than some

- that, when one thinks about it, one was not so timely or adult in one's thinking when one was a teenager.

- the mind-boggling amounts of money charged by the college boards for ridiculous standardized testing. and the fact that one must pay for these things (including their ridiculous extra twenty bucks for late registration) if one wants one's kid to have opportunities even when one is completely morally opposed to standardized tests and feels like screaming every time the subject is broached.

- waiting. just in general.

- the financial crisis and its infringement on one's personal financial life (ie, selling one's house, affording college, day care, etc, etc, etc)

- people who think sarah palin is qualified to step foot outside alaska

- dryer lint

- parents who don't pay their children's overdue book fines

- meetings after work when you are completely done with the day and braindead

- oversleeping - aren't babies supposed to take the place of alarm clocks?