good freakin’ grief

What really stresses me out are tedious tasks that require tedious reading.  Right now… it’s the style manual for my school.  I’ve never understood how to ‘properly’ format bibliographies, even with ’step by step’ instructions; no matter what level of schooling I was in, or apparently AM in, I’ve just never understood it.  There is a sheer tedium to the work of reading about how to format such a small thing that sends me into fits of frustration and even spasms.  Really and truly, I can’t understand them.  I understand their function, and I understand they’re relatively simple when you just look at one, but writing a book about how to form them is rediculous to me.  Essentially it’s a book of words talking about how to arrange words, and there are a number of different formats to choose from!  What gives?  I really think a chart would do just fine; take up one or two pages for the different types of sources and label the different parts of a full bibliography and then leave instructions to simply omit whatever information is not given by the source.  The whole thing is so nit-picky about the smallest details of a PREFERENCE of style.  I detest this.  It really iritates and frustrates me to no end.  Translation:  this is no small matter for me and really does put me into an extremely edgy frame of mind.  So much so that if you leave even one comment that says anything akin to ‘tough it out’ or ‘hang in there’ I’ll delete it immediately because it illustrates you don’t understand my mindset over this.