Okay, here's my rant for the day. Today's pet peeve: friends of mine who complain to me about not liking other friends of mine, or griping about how other people don't like them. I agree, you're supposed to be able to talk to your friends about pretty much any topic. But friends are also supposed to be considerate. Does it not occur to people that you don't appreciate it? I guess not, since I've never said so. That's a big failing of mine, really. I don't mention the fact that I dislike something, until it happens enough that I'm sick and tired of it, and then I blow up without the other person ever realizing it was a problem in the first place.

And since I already gave you today's pet peeve, here's tomorrow's: people who are overdramatic about meaningless crap. Someone says something you already know, as though it's the biggest thing since Britney Spears got married (which is also meaningless crap, in case you didn't realize the connection). No shit. Stop the presses! Alert the media! Get over it, and we'll all be better off.

You know what I need? I need a laptop. If I could just pick up my laptop and go to the library, I'd get so much more work done... Damn, that'd be nice. Instead, I'm stuck in my dorm room working on a computer science project, which traps me in front of the computer, which is connected to any number of terrible distractions that keep me from getting any work done until I'm already too tired to concentrate anyway, at which point I get twice as frustrated by the fact that I can't concentrate as I would have by the process of attacking the problem analytically and systematically while I was still awake. (Witness the power of my extra-long sentences. I'm the man.) With that in mind, I'm going to do my utmost now to try to concentrate regardless of the fact that I'm already tired. I need to get on a regular sleep schedule. Ten hours a night sounds nice, but I'm dying. I can't stay awake, and when I am awake I feel tired. Coffee time!