Feckless Friday: iTunes Edition

I know you like to read about my own fecklessness (I can tell by my stats that Panic! at the Whole Foods Edition is your favorite post, Sadists), but I’m outing iTunes today. Because I’m mad and they won’t return my phone calls. And I’m outing you people because you can still participate in Feckless Friday by tweeting or facebooking or calling me and telling about your (or other people’s) fecklessness even if I skip a few Fridays as I am wont to do because of my fecklessness! Ok? So play along.

Anyway, iTunes? Why are you doing this to me? I like to make a playlist of podcasts, mixing “The Moth” in with “This American Life” and “School Sucks,” or what have you. I need to be able to push skip when I’m listening to “School Sucks” and they start talking about statists and how dumb it is that we all want states. I can’t do that now. Now, when they veer off the school subject on to the Paultard subjects, I have to stop running, take off my arm band, pause my workout, choose “change music,” find out that I can’t just choose “change music” and find another podcast, oh no, I have to choose “end workout” and then I have to look at my milage and subtract what I’ve already run from the total that I want to run and then start a whole new workout with a new podcast, which means you’ve committed the ultimate sin by forcing me to do maths! And then my Nike+ bar graph isn’t as pretty with long, tall slender bars. Instead, it has short, stubby bars with decimals. DECIMALS! Because that is the extent of maths I had to go to. It makes me want to write a letter in all caps with lots and lots of exclamation points. And maybe handwritten. But probably  nobody would be able to read it through the tear stains. So fix it, iTunes. Everything was fine until you did your stupid 9.0.stupid update. Stupid.

And don’t tell me that I can still make a podcast playlist, because I know that. I can make all the podcast playlists that I want, but when the little menu of playlists comes up for me to choose which ones I want to sync? Well, there are no podcast playlists available for syncing. Not allowed! They should have a pop-up that says, “Did you enjoy making that totally useless podcast playlist? It was fun to watch you do that for absolutely no reason. We’re all laughing at you from inside your computer.” Because that’s how it feels. And I can hardly function.