to the following:

• wanting to just read someone's blog and not comment because then you'd have to think of something to say, and this is brain relaxation time.
  
• people just about to start doing something they've never done before and are terrified because everyone acts like they already know what they're doing
• feeling like endless January rain has turned you into a slug - at least you can now be tracked by ooze trails!
• being scared about the possibility of a conservative government even though everything we know about the behaviour of Canadian voters says it won't happen.
  
• people who think we should work less. There have been very few eras of human history where people have had as little unstructured time as they do now.

Now that I've been all empathetic and everything, here's my gripe du jour:
For the class I'm taking right now, and for the next three week, our textbook is "Failing Our Kids," which is a lovely book that outlines all of the problems with our current Canadian public school system. It covers the problems so exhaustively that it hits on basically all of the school-related stuff I've been bitching and whinging about since the dawn of time. Problem: we're all going to start jumping out of windows. Seriously, this class is so stupidly depressing that it has us all scratching our heads and asking why the hell we got into this in the first place. I think my head is going to explode.