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Wednesday / March 27th / 2002
   
Cracked about cracks...

I have this thing about doors that are slightly ajar, that is those that happen to be open just a crack. For some reason it drives me absolutely crazy. I cannot stand it, especially when for example I can hear a door upstairs which is slightly ajar and swinging back and forth. An innocent draft causes an unpredictably rhythmical clicking sound as the breeze tries to close the door but cannot close it completely. Click, click, and (wait exactly 4.7 seconds) click. When I was a small boy and went to bed, I would call my mother about ten times to come back and make sure that my bedroom door was completely closed, until it clicked. "Mommy, did it click shut?" When I became too old to be acting so childishly, I would get out of my bed myself ten times before I slept. I would grope my way in the pitch-black darkness and feel where the doorknob was. I gave the knob a quick jolt back and forth, rattling the door to insure closure and completeness. No crack. This is order to check and double check and triple check (plus seven or more additional checks) to make absolutely definitely sure the door was really closed without the slightest possible doubt. You can never know with absolute one hundred percent certainty now that the crack is gone, can you? This obsession and/or phobia and/or psychoses about cracks have extended themselves later into my adult life. It now includes any other items that might happen to express some kind of crack or slit or other thin opening that allows lightness or darkness to show through. Life is not that complicated after all. Life is full of cracks and that is the nature of things. When you walk on the sidewalk be very careful. Step on a crack and you break your mother's back. A desire for perfection and absolute certainty makes life less perfect and more complicated than it should be. Let's not get too cracked about cracks now, okay?


~ Posted at 06:35 PM | Mind and matter
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I wouldn't necessarily call it an obsession and/or phobia and/or psychoses. Let's call it a nuance! How did the presentation go??

- Posted by pat at March 27, 2002 09:38 PM

A nuance or do you mean a nuisance?! Presentation went well, but which presentation do you mean?

- Posted by Kiffin at March 27, 2002 10:16 PM

Morning; well, didn't you englishize a document recently for a major presentation for a major presentation? But then again, I tend to read these very early in the morning, BC (Before Coffee). Also, any thoughts of upgrading to V2.0 yet? Mine was painless, but my site sucks.

- Posted by pat at March 28, 2002 05:10 PM

Site had been updated to MT 2.0 with no problems.

- Posted by Kiffin at March 28, 2002 08:35 PM

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