I'm annoyed now
In the aftermath of the asshole intervention I have made incredible turnaround with my general attitude. What I can't help is that sometimes I am genuinely annoyed by things and any snippiness is taken with extreme hypersensitivity by Sylvia and Rain. I can understand that, but I need a little leeway when things legitimately piss me off. For example: We (all the people affiliated with our pagan group) are doing a full moon ritual in our backyard for Rain's religious studies class. That's cool. What's been bothering me is that I never hear what's been decided until the absolute last second and only if I ask or someone else makes an errant comment about it. This results in difficult situations in getting work days off, and me feeling as though my opinions are unimportant and feeling very underprepared for things. The unimportant bit is just me have whiny poor-me emotion and I don't really factor it in other than to say I can't help it and sorry if it annoys anybody. The other bit has been irritating me because while no one has been given adequate time to prepare for this ritual, which is tomorrow mind you, I've only been finding things out by accident it seems and I hate not knowing what I'm doing, especially if I'm doing it in front of other people. As much as I love being a pagan that doesn't mean I have much experience to draw on for ritual, nor does anyone else doing it.
I'm also annoyed at Lars. I talked to him last night and aside from whining about his homework for his online classes (which was mostly making a post in a few different class forums and reading introductions. Tackle a paper a week, two labs, and 400 pages of reading, THEN whine to me) he reverted to this "I have to impress everyone" personality. I was talking about hoping that my car will make it to Yellowstone because it sucks to be stuck at the secluded locations all summer and he says, literally, "You don't know what you're talking about." and goes into this story about working for some... something where he had to back pack around woods for six months at a time and camp by himself two miles from the main camp. Moving on from the point where that story reeked strongly of bullshit, the "you don't know what you're talking about" comment was fucking annoying. A less arrogant way to point it out would be to start with " Oh I know what you mean! I was working with..." As opposed to calling me an idiot and trying to one up me.
I feel better having voiced my opinions. I need to say at least part of it to Rain, but frankly I don't want to deal with another intervention-like accusation of everything I ever done to annoy her.