List of the Week

By popular demand, the 11,002 things to be miserable about are back.

1. Cures discovered after a disease has killed a member of your family
2. People with a name like Herman Hermanson
3. Children who want to be lawyers when they grow up
4. The sex lives of early Puritans
5. Abandoned conversations
6. Fat people who complain that they're skinny
7. The book selection at provincial libraries
8. Sex scenes with aging actors
9. Young Germans who are afraid to ask what their grandparents did
10. Journalists who lose their jobs to bloggers (hehehe)
11. Poems with secret political agendas
12. Scientists paid by tobacco companies to cast doubt on evidence that smoking kills
13. Job recruiters finding drunken photos of you on social networking sites
14. The 400,000 people on the government's terror watch list
15. The mansions of drug lords
16. Doctors who rape their patients
17. Children who are never invited to birthday parties
18. Hurricane Katrina
19. The federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina
20. Waiting for acceptance letters

Happy Tuesday!