I wish I didn't notice things. I notice and can't unnotice the viral spread of annoying verbal tics. (My historical pet most-hated: a neighbor on W76th infected my roommates, and thereby almost everyone else in my social circle at the time, with starting sentences with "Also too", which, besides obviously being redundant, was used in front of EVERY SENTENCE, even when the sentence was IN NO WAY ADDITIVE to what came before.) Adding a non-questioning ", right." at the end of every statement, which is not just substantively useless and a waste of time but as a bonus also condescending and presumptuous, has infected this entire program with breathtaking speed. Its annoyingness to me is no doubt exponentially increased by the fact that it was begun by a self-promoting, airtime-blackhole blowhard in whose study group I have the misfortune to be assigned. The professors have not been immune, each not having done it before but immediately beginning to do it after Blowhard first speaks in class.

It is a microscopic pebble in my shoe while I'm on a cruise ship. For free. Being positive. I will choose to ignore it.