Archives in Category: Annoyances

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Angelina

Posted on June 19, 2006

It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway. Angelina Jolie is an eccentric. An eccentric is defined as anyone or anything that “deviates from the customary,” someone who is “erratic, peculiar, or odd.”

Consider that Angelina has been married

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Keep in Touch

Posted on May 4, 2006

I like email as much as the next person; in fact, my program is set up to send me a little pop-up whenever I receive a message, so I’m never too far behind. At the same time, I like the

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Clocks

Posted on April 27, 2006

Whoever said, “If you own more than one clock, you’ll never know what time it is,” spoke the frustrating truth. We have clocks everywhere in our house — five in the kitchen alone — and I never know which one

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Backhanded Honor

Posted on April 22, 2006

From time to time I listen to the traffic reports in Chicago and smile because I no longer have to cope with them. It was during one of these forty-second spots that a reporter referred to the Reagan Expressway and

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Ketchup

Posted on April 19, 2006

I frequently wear short sleeved knit shirts, both in winter and in summer; so I have a variety of colors: lavender, coral, pink, green, blue, white, etc.

It doesn’t matter what color I’m wearing on any given day, invariably I

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The Three Hundred Pound Envelope

Posted on April 12, 2006

We received a bill from FedEx a couple days ago for an envelope we sent recently to a Realtor® in Chicago. The envelope contained a set of four keys and nothing else. It was a standard FedEx issue envelope too,

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Aaarrrggghhh!

Posted on April 11, 2006

The title for this essay simulates the sound of primal frustration, that feeling that occurs when one absolutely throws up one’s hands in exasperation at a given situation. When one runs out of reasons or excuses or possible explanations. I

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Recipes

Posted on February 6, 2006

I have issues. Issues with recipes, especially recipes that are printed in a local newspaper or circulated on the Internet. More often than not, they are incorrect, which means the cook must be part sleuth as well as part gourmand.

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Suckered

Posted on February 4, 2006

I’d seen it advertised earlier in the week and it seemed like a win-win situation. I would get to see the best commercials of the past forty Super Bowls without having to watch a single minute of playing time. What

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Cellphones

Posted on January 3, 2006

At the beginning of December, the Chicago Tribune Magazine devoted its entire issue to today’s ever-increasing and always-changing technology. I’m just now getting around to reading it, which is an indication not only of how behind I am in my

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