Your current annoyance

[Kea]

rid·dle 1 (rdl)
tr.v. rid·dled, rid·dling, rid·dles
1. To pierce with numerous holes; perforate: riddle a target with bullets.
2. To spread throughout: "Election campaigns have always been riddled with demagogy and worse" (New Republic).
3. To put (gravel, for example) through a coarse sieve.

ridden [ˈrɪdən]
vb
the past participle of ride
adj
(in combination) afflicted, affected, or dominated by something specified damp-ridden disease-ridden

You haven't seen this report, but "afflicted, affected, and dominated by" sounds just about right. A census report full of incorrect figures is a horrible thing to read. I've only picked out the obviously wrong ones - sentences that say things like "64.2 percent in 2011, down from 50.6 percent in 1991". Or numbers that are obviously a whole decimal point off. There's probably loads of non-obvious mistakes, like where the author typed something like 61,452 instead of 61,542, but I am not going to double check thousands of stats. Also, someone who doesn't even attempt to adjust monetary comparisons for inflation probably has no business writing a census analysis.

[weatherwax]

Thus spake grammariankea.

[CCC]

rid·dle 1 (rdl)
tr.v. rid·dled, rid·dling, rid·dles
1. To pierce with numerous holes; perforate: riddle a target with bullets.
2. To spread throughout: "Election campaigns have always been riddled with demagogy and worse" (New Republic).
3. To put (gravel, for example) through a coarse sieve.

ridden [ˈrɪdən]
vb
the past participle of ride
adj
(in combination) afflicted, affected, or dominated by something specified damp-ridden disease-ridden

You haven't seen this report, but "afflicted, affected, and dominated by" sounds just about right. A census report full of incorrect figures is a horrible thing to read. I've only picked out the obviously wrong ones - sentences that say things like "64.2 percent in 2011, down from 50.6 percent in 1991". Or numbers that are obviously a whole decimal point off. There's probably loads of non-obvious mistakes, like where the author typed something like 61,452 instead of 61,542, but I am not going to double check thousands of stats. Also, someone who doesn't even attempt to adjust monetary comparisons for inflation probably has no business writing a census analysis.

I admit to your superior knowledge of the report, but suggest that the phrase should thus be "typo-ridden", as in "this stupid typo-ridden report", and not "ridden with typos"?

[Galaxy Hunter]

My brother's dumb cat, who feels the need to come whine and moan outside my door every morning until I feed her, and she does this the moment I make even the slightest noise; even if she was asleep in my parents' room, she'll come running down the hall to badger me.

I'm this close to throwing her out of the house one morning and saying "you want breakfast? Go hunt it and kill it yourself!" Or buying a pair of earplugs and sleeping in them.

[Solara Hanover]

You are now her person. Good luck. Our older cat has decided I'm his person and as a result I get woken up by him meowing IN MY EAR until I get up and feed him.

[Kajin]

Currently suffering from a real life Catsplosion.

Note: do not click link if you're weak of stomach.

[Galaxy Hunter]

You are now her person. Good luck. Our older cat has decided I'm his person and as a result I get woken up by him meowing IN MY EAR until I get up and feed him.

Well, that's just dandy. Well, in a few months I'm going back to college and seeing as she ain't my cat, I'm not taking her with.

[Kajin]

That feeling you get right before a hiccup only for the hiccup never to arrive. It's not pleasant.

[giggles]

The air conditioning is off at work because they had a smoke alarm go off over the weekend. This doesn't help the fact that I'm already feeling sick this morning.

[weatherwax]

A persnickety coworker is getting persnickety again. Every time anything changes, he pops his head up and wonders aloud why he wasn't involved or asked about the change. Even if it has nothing to do with him, but grazes some of his work slightly.

It is most annoying.

Oh, also I forgot to spell check an email in response to him, and of course misspelled a couple of words because my spelling is atrocious. So, yeah, now I'm doubly annoyed.

[FreakyBoy]

Cover letters. I hate writing them.

[Steave]

Cover letters. I hate writing them.

Yes. Double freaking yes!

I'm focusing on moving house but as soon as I've moved I have to job hunt again and I'm really not looking forward to it.

[Kea]

Reading about the statistical backflips it takes to be able to compare education levels, life expectancy, infant mortality, and income across different cities. This is much more complicated than it looks. I am simultaneously impressed and horrified.

[caffeine]

People who insist on putting perfectly standard terminology in quote marks like it's an unusual affectation or a new-fangled neologism. SOmeone keeps emailing me that he can't "open" the document I'm sending.

[Solara Hanover]

Hubby crawled into bed at 9 pm. "What, you're not coming?" Ummm no, it's 9 o'clock. Just because I go to bed this early on mornings I have to open (be AT work at 5 am) doesn't mean I always go to bed this early. So now, he's in bed, and I'm sleeping on the couch tonight because if he falls asleep before I do he takes over the ENTIRE bed. Luckily, I'm off tomorrow.