First World Problems

I've got 'em, and I've got 'em bad.  I keep waking up around 3 a.m. most nights stressed about all of the things going on right now...responding to the IRS's questions about my 2010 tax return (which yes, I did fill out after a few glasses of wine, and yes, had some problems, but not nearly as many problems as they purported), completing my thesis by April 30th and writing my final paper for class by May 5 while managing the end of the fiscal year at work, a place that cannot seem to accurately report numbers and requires me to be an accountant at times...something I am most certainly not fit to be.  Did I mention that I'm also planning my best friend from childhood's bachelorette party, which is happening next week and I have no idea what I'm doing since I've never even participated in a bachelorette party much less planned one?!  (yes, shocking as it may be, this is a true statement).  

I do know that these are all bourgeois problems and that makes me even more annoyed that they stress me out so much that it affects my sleep!  So, I found this website -- http://first-world-problems.com/ -- dedicated to first world problems.  Perhaps not already knowing about this website is yet another one of my problems.  The second one listed already speaks to me and my situation, "I have an essay to write, and Microsoft spell check doesn't think "heteronormativity" is a word."  Let me go ahead and add liminality, originarily, binarism, and transgressive to that list.  No, these things are not about life and death...but they are perhaps like slow torture, like a continuous drip that has the potential to finally drive you mad at some unpredictable point in the future.

The website allows you to submit your own problem...so, I'm saving this knowledge as a potential get of jail free card that I can cash in if I start getting crazier over the next three weeks as I finish this degree.  I'm thinking that lashing out about rule followers and other annoyances on a public website that isn't my own blog might be just the thing I need.