Outside of Tracy Kidder's "House," I can't think of a book with such vividly descriptive passages on the day-to-day frustrations, stresses, and rewards of home construction.
One mathematician enrolled out of a Christian sense of justice; another cited the day-to-day frustrations of living in a severely gerrymandered Florida district.
The day-to-day frustrations erode the faith of many doctors and nurses in what they are doing and give them another reason to leave, on top of the economic hardships.
It follows the day-to-day frustrations of real people as they try to comply with the state's new welfare program, Work First New Jersey, which went into effect in 1997.
Letters and calls to the Prison Reform Trust's advice and information service, now over 6,700 a year, reveal the day-to-day frustrations and privations, as well as time wasted, in a beleaguered public service.
We hear less about Frances' happy relationship in later life than about her day-to-day frustrations; Sylvia is driven out of Zimlia, and almost as an afterthought we read of a group of lower-mid-level do-gooders who are actually doing good.
Woods's Friday frustrations were summed up by a three-putt for par on the 14th and another one from 10ft for bogey two holes later.
But on Thursday, frustrations ran especially high, and some students were reduced to tears for an unexpected reason: Most of their teachers called in sick, part of an escalating labor dispute with the Archdiocese of New York in which two-thirds of teachers failed to report for work, closing 8 of its 10 high schools.
But in the West we aren't even taught how to cope with the day-to-day frustrations of life.
During the subsequent roughly one-and-a-half hour chat, Claiborne discussed her day-to-day frustrations with her government job, and the FBI agent thanked her for being such a good friend to Chinese foreign intelligence.
