Things that are not amazing

1. Afternoon sunlight. Unless I'm inside where I can't see it, it always makes me feel completely depressed. It makes me think of a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, called The Yellow Wallpaper, about a woman who lives in a room with yellow wallpaper that causes her to go crazy. If the earth stopped rotating and we had to live with constant afternoon sun, I think I would sink into madness as well.

2. Having to deal with something literally that is usually dealt with only figuratively. 

3. Dentures. Though more specifically, when people take them out.

4. Missing friends' birthdays.

5. Unequal growth

6. Slow internet connections

7. Being inconvenienced by First World problems and then feeling bad about my inconsequential issues.

8. Being ignored except on that one day

9. Being patronized for not knowing some Russian writer or scientist or politician when it wasn't my choice to leave the country at the tender age of 6 in the first place. And for the record, I know more about english-speaking writers and politicians than you ever will. And I don't make you feel bad about it. (Yes, scientists I will forever remain indifferent to, no matter what nationality. My genes have utterly failed me.)

10. Insomnia