A most annoying misconception of the modern times has got to be that of acknowledgment. She is indeed a literary person, a total over-analyzer, herself being no exception to her first law of being : Facts must be identified, discussed and acknowledged. She has most definitively identified herself as a perfectionist, and she acknowledges her own annoying behavior. She fails to realize that acknowledgement does not in anyway justify her unreasonable expectations, or help her come across any less annoying for that matter.

Thinking of it, my boss (ab)uses the exact same technique. So did my mom when she didn't like who I was going out with at the time, makes me wonder if I do the same. I most certainly do : I acknowledge my miseries, then conveniently do nothing about them, as if they're supposed to vaporize once I talk about them; they never do.