Ikea - swedish for yeah, good luck with that

So I'm in LA and I'm getting settled to start school (today actually, but lets pretend I wrote this last night). Though entering graduate school is a little ritzier that beginning an undergrad program, it still meant that I visited ikea to furnish my apt. I reckon I spent somewhere close to 10 hours trying to put together a few ikea items. On one hand its an impressive business model that they can create instructions ONLY in pictures, and the general meaning can become clear, that they can drive people to a destination location to do work and eat meatballs. On the other hand... 10 hours for a flippin' dresser made of particle board and veneer finish? seriously.