Maybe I'm OCD

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"The Anxiety and Depression Association of America also cites compulsive behavior less extreme than collecting a freezer full of dead cats..."

I've not seen either of these shows, but this article contrasting Hoarders and Tidying Up through a socio-political lens was a good read. Capitalism is bizarre. I was homeless for a while, once, and though I now am quite stable financially, I still have behaviors I developed when I was younger. I'm not entirely sure that's where my OCD comes from, but being poor is traumatic.

I'll just put this here. I have a bunch of notes for a non-fiction book that explores the psychology of grief in a narrative form. It is the type of book that I needed once but never found. I wish I'd written it before Dai died.

Please don't tell me to get on with it. I have too much going on at the moment, and I'm still fiddling around with Maybe Zombies.

Maybe Zombies? Maybe mind-control? Or maybe just not real? These are some of the questions grappled with in @epilepticrabbit 's novel. It is a meandering journey of Maggie's inadvertent trail of carnage and excess. It touches on technology, power, perspective, privilege and truth. However, it is all a reminder that it can all be gone in a second. Aaron Davis

I reread the ending yesterday because a reader said...something. Do my readers just not want it to end? Well, I can't talk to YOU about it, now can I? I'd spoil for those of you who haven't bought it yet.

Maybe I'm waffling

If it weren't for the cars being so new, this photo by Simon Daoudi could have been taken by a past me.

I spent a formidable part of my youth scribbling on napkins and ordering hash browns smothered and covered. My record was 27 cups of coffee and 200 napkins at a Waffle House when I was 15. I wrote a book on those napkins. It was surely brilliant, now it's lost to time. Anyway, I'm not surprised to read this article and intuitively concur – if you can manage a Waffle House, you can manage anything. Also, the Waffle House Index from FEMA makes perfect sense to people like me. If you're curious about travel risk, the International SOS...I think they're an insurance company? IDFK, but hey look at this Travel Risk Map.

For those of you not in the know, I have an imaginary podcast called “Everything is Derogatory™” where I question derogatory idioms and their origins. The podcast considers whether or not terms/idioms are, indeed, derogatory and should be eradicated from normal speech. This week's term is "Gung-ho". In this case, I feel I can argue the etymology as stupid, but not particularly racist. It is incredible how many of these terms start as military slang.

Maybe I need help?

I could use some advice on contentment. I have done a lot of things in life, and I'd like to relax now. But instead of chilling the fuck out, I just move on to the next thing to do. I'm not good at stopping...What about you?

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