This month's blogging theme is Strange(r). Of course, the phrase Stranger Than Fiction pops into my head. This was a movie starring Will Ferrell and Maggie Gillenhaal about an IRS auditor who hears a narration of his life. As a writer, I do not find this all that strange.
I often feel like I am a character in one of my own stories. I find myself 'observing' the things around me as I go through my daily routine on autopilot. I often wonder with great curiousity what might happen next. I often create elaborate stories about even the most mundane things, like computers conspiring to drive me crazy. Usually, nothing very exciting happens, however, beyond the usual madness of a cat jumping on my desk and sending all my stuff crashing to the floor. But every so often, something unexpected happens and I find myself thinking, 'Wow, she didn't see that coming.'
The unusual and unexpected event usually happens about five minutes after I sit down at my desk to work. It usually involves a phone call in which I am either put on forever hold or end up in one of those automated systems where I am forced to speak to a computer-generated female who patronizes me for not pronouncing my requests in perfect English. In utter frustration, I punch the zero key a couple hundred times and finally get a living, breathing person in India who can't understand me either, but anything is better than talking to a computer. I'd much rather talk to my cats.
Strange Fact: Some moths don't eat anything as adults because they have no mouth. They have to live their entire adult life on the energy they stored as caterpillars. Imagine that the next time you sit down to your third, fourth or fifth meal or snack of the day.
Cleanse update: I completed the Raw Cleanse routine yesterday. I will post more about my experience with this tomorrow. I drank a lot of coffee yesterday, but had no wine in the evening and felt like I slept a lot better. I want to start cutting back on the coffee today, but we'll see. So far I've had one small cup, but I feel like there's definitely another cup in today's future.
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2 comments:
I do that too!
I remember as a little girl I would narrate the story of my life in my head, as if I were actually in some book that peopl were reading in real time. I was insane, actually, haha.
Once, after saying something to my mother, I accidentally said "...she said" out loud instead of in my head. I was like, 9. I don't know why I remember this.
I was SUCH a weird kid, haha.
Oh, good! (big sigh of relief) I'm glad I am not the only one. :) Perhaps we can start another group! LOL
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