A lot of people think the wrinkled skin you get after a long shower is disgusting, or aesthetically displeasing. When I was a kid I found them spooky. "Look!" I'd wail to my mum. "Look!", sticking my fingers under her nose. A bit like little old faces with slits for eyes, etched into the flesh. And strangely, they'd recede slowly into normal smooth prints again in a matter of minutes. Maybe that was why I really didn't like the scene in TTT with the Dead Marshes. ("Don't follow the lightsssss!")
When someone spilt water on the table I'd rub and increase its surface area for faster drying. I liked to pretend I was a genius artist, and one day I saw this picture in the streaks - dinosaur bones, not gory but encyclopedia-like, rising in the centre of a plain. I excitedly pointed it out to the maid, who was wiping the table, who was confused.
This type of thinking isn't right for Economics at all. It's like having to think in a very exact way, and if you don't naturally, you're wrong (or stupid, or impractical). Why am I writing as if I hate Economics? I don't. You've got to think in more than the way that seems to natural to each person, otherwise your brain would be very limited and you'd think everyone is wrong (except you, of course). What a melodramatic explanation.
I saw a posse of middle-aged Frenchmen in The Soup Kitchen at United Square. The accent is so lyrical, and they are aces at using chopsticks, not what you'd expect from hammy Caucasian men ordering their Tiger Beer. They happily moved on to the neighbouring store to eat kaya toast later. I went to McDonald's for ice-cream; couldn't stop eating and stuffing my face and scowling at my dad for eating 3/4 of the fish and spraying pear juice all over me. This time I'm not valiantly searching for the End of CTs. I just keep studying, anyway, as if girding up the loins (as if) for the long (slow) race up till November. I'm tired of being ragged about researching about the future. I KNOW I have to. Same grievance.
The carrots dangling are a) the HC Band concert b) LOTR exhibition at the Science Centre c) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I miss HX, but probably won't see her for some time.