{"id":845,"date":"2005-01-31T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/31\/just-another-manic-monday\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T19:05:03","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T23:05:03","slug":"just-another-manic-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/31\/just-another-manic-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Just another manic monday."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Things that pissed me off this weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So, the hot chocolate festival was completely lame yesterday &#8211; I stopped by, but didn&#8217;t even  take any pictures because it was actually somewhat pathetic (and after all the hype!).  The ice rink?  was &quot;synthetic ice&quot; that you could skate on with ice skates, but was so small that you couldn&#8217;t fit more than a few people a a time.  The &quot;sidewalks piled with snow that would be imported in?  was chunks of week old sidewalk snow from last weekend&#8217;s blizzard, that was impossible to play in.  As I walked down the street I could feel palpable disappointment in the parents and kids that I passed.  Oh, and for all the hype about the hot chocolate itself, City Bakery was apparently charging $2 for <em>a sample-size cup<\/em>.  So I essentially walked by making like I was just going over to sixth avenue, lest anyone think this &quot;festival&quot; was my actual destination.  I don&#8217;t know if they thought the blizzard would negate their need to import snow, or if it was a little too warm to make things work (it was actually in the mid 30s), but it was quite poorly executed.  I&#8217;m actually mad at myself for telling other people about it.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks, New York Times, for giving away the &quot;major plot twist&quot; to <em>Million Dollar Baby<\/em> in the friggin&#8217; <a target=\"NewWindow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/31\/movies\/31baby.html?ex=1264914000&amp;en=c0b85ded9650f163&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt\">headline<\/a>.  Hint:  Don&#8217;t click on the link if you don&#8217;t want to know.  And putting a disclaimer in the second paragraph of the article doesn&#8217;t exactly work when your headline is &quot;Groups Criticize &#8216;Baby&#8217; for Message on [XXXXXXXXX]&quot;.  Some of us actually haven&#8217;t seen the film yet, even here in New York where it&#8217;s actually been playing.<\/li>\n<li>And in my personal life, I woke  up this morning with what appears to be a stye in my left eye.  Which really, really sucks.  my eyelid is swollen and I look like I got punched in the face.  And I&#8217;m stuck wearing my glasses, which also sucks because the lack of peripheral vision will give me a massive headache by the end of the day.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and Fresh Direct forgot one of the boxes in my order last night.  The one with all of the Diet Coke (among other things).  And when I called them, they&#8217;re all &quot;we can deliver it from 2-4 on Wednesday,&quot; forcing me to point out that the reason I&#8217;m scheduling deliveries at 10pm on Sunday nights is precisely because I <em>work<\/em> during the week.  and then when we finally figure out a new deliver time for the missing $20 worth of groceries?  The guy is like, &quot;and we won&#8217;t even charge you for delivery!&quot; in this tone that is totally like he&#8217;s doing me a solid.  My response?  an incredulous &quot;well I certainly hope not, as <em>you guys fucked up<\/em>, and not only would charging me for a second delivery in this circumstance be unethical, I&#8217;m pretty sure it would be illegal as well&#8230;&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow.  now I feel a little bit better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that pissed me off this weekend&#8230; So, the hot chocolate festival was completely lame yesterday &#8211; I stopped by, but didn&#8217;t even take any pictures because it was actually somewhat pathetic (and after all the hype!). 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