Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Do I Dare Be Exact, Just Because I Can Be?

Do I Dare Be Exact, Just Because I Can Be?

Sloane Crosley said she had to get rid of her miniature pony collection just because, were it found after her death, people would just her insane because of it.  There's be no way of explaining the really un-crazy way she happened to have it.

So when I write the exact moment I get up, go to bed, or start deleting unread e-mail, I worry, too.

I'm at the computer when I say at what time I turn to e-mail, and there it is in the bottom right-hand side of the monitor screen:  10:29 AM. 

But will I appear to be a compulsive-obsessive if I write 10:29 instead of the more general and possibly less accurate 10:30?  (Thank God it's just changed, and it really is 10:30!)

I keep a log of my segmented sleep, so I have things like this:

Tuesday, August 25. 

1:34 am down
3:15 am up
7:11 pm down again.

The 3:15 could be judged sane, but not the 1:34  or the 7:11 --unless it's a reference to the store.


Maybe I should just recite that saying, "I'm CDO.  That's the same as OCD but with the letters arranged alphabetically, as they should be."

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