Tedious

I chose this word because I have just recently finished codifying surveys for a homework assignment and I felt it to be the best description for the task. The OED defines tedious as

"2. Wearisome in general; annoying, irksome, troublesome, disagreeable, painful."

This about sums up the project I just spent 2 hours of my life on. The etymological history is much less tedious: the word originates in Latin in the word taedium meaning weariness, disgust. The word then traveled into late Latin in the form taedios-us, irksome. There is also some possibility that it came through Old French via tedieus.

And so that was my night in a nutshell. Or, in this case, in one word: tedious.