| I love..... | I don't love..... |
| newspapers | the black stuff on your hands |
| foie gras | people who think foie gras is always made into paté |
| French | the trouble it takes to type accented characters and the trouble I have learning languages |
| learning new things | forgetting the things I've learned |
| travel | business travel, airplanes and airports |
| people-watching, even in airports | beeping carts in airports (the folks in the cart are getting a free ride and the driver wants to run over the folks carrying bags and hoofing it) |
| all my stuff | organizing my stuff |
| coffee | bad coffee that has been sitting on a burner cooking for two hours |
| espresso | remembering how to spell cappuccino (or espresso for that matter) |
| computers | computers |
| C | C++ |
| the World Wide Web | broken links |
| words | proactive, the word that became trite before it reached the dictionary |
| writing | poor writing, especially my own |
| reading | reading poor writing especially technical mumbo jumbo where a superior tone is deemed a replacement for clarity |
| reading books are articles that are mostly clear but occasionally send me to the dictionary | not having a dictionary handy when I encounter a new word or an old one I've forgotten |
| people | people who don't listen |
| bags and suitcases | tripping over all my bags |
| small wallets | purses and handbags (can you say "I'm a woman and to increase my vulnerability and make a fashion statement I bought this cute purse and then put everything valuable to me in it!") |
| pockets | blazers without inside pockets |
| tennis | those little skirts |
| food | McDonald's with exception for one in a foreign location where you have lost trust in the food and are having trouble finding reasonable bathrooms |
| data base design | data base design software |
| eating out | oversized portions |
| walking | running or exercises that stress the joints |
| my dog | loose dogs |
| movies | sci-fi, excessive violence |
| on-line journals | discussion about what an on-line journal should be, deciding whether it's online or on-line and diary or journal |
| the Internet | people who don't remember when there wasn't one |
| cat pictures | cats |
| the arts | dismissive remarks about entire genres of the arts |
| rap music, heavy metal and Barbra Streisand ballads | see above |
| jazz | racism |
| books | knowing you have a book that you can't find |
| books | never getting around to reading books you have |
| books | being somewhere with no words to read |
| children | indulgent parents |
| wine | snobs |
| photography | red eyes, lamps in inconvenient spots |
| typing | typos |
| people who send e-cards | e-cards |
| people who send commercial greeting cards | commercial greeting cards |
| sleep | sleeping too late |
| staying up late | not being able to sleep when I need to do it |
| beer | light (lite) beer |
| junk e-mail | |
| to do lists | finding an old to do list on which I don't even UNDERSTAND the items |
| software and coding | software configuration software |
| truth | admitting that it's impossible to get anything quite true |
| routine | chaos |
| chaos | routine |
| spelling | spelling out loud |
| getting organized | staying organized (it's the routine thing) |
| eating | being fat |
| magazine ads | Internet ads, espeically ones that pretend to be messages ("your connection is too slow!") or ones that slip under the window you have open only to be found later when sorting through windows. |
| cigarettes |
a puff from a cigar, old cigarette advertising |
| being punctual | people who are always late |
| occasionally refusing to go somewhere I'm supposed to | people who are always unavailable or tell you at the last minute that they can't come |