21. I strongly dislike allegory. I could write a clever allegory to express this point, but I won't because I hate allegory.
22. I am baffled by how dirty my glasses get. I never touch my glasses, and neither does anything else. So, how do they get so dirty? People who don't wear glasses must have really dirty eyes.
23. I am a bit claustrophobic. I cannot venture into tight spaces, like into the crawlspace under a pier-and-beam house, for example. I'm fine in elevators and small places, but I freak out in places where the walls actually touch my body on more than one side, even if there is little actual risk of becoming stuck. I have recurring nightmares about being with a tourist group exploring an old house or a ship or some other structure. As the crowd pushes behind me, we proceed up some stairs. The walls get closes and closer as we go, until I begin to feel stuck. I try to push back, but there are too many people pushing behind me. At that point my brain always wakes me up. If it didn't, I think I might totally lose it.
24. I loved the movie Pan's Labyrinth.
25. I hated the movie Signs. I thought the writing was just awful, awful, awful. I was wincing at how stupid and predictable the story was. <SPOILERS>An ex-baseball player. A habit of leaving glasses of water sitting around the house. A recurring auditory premonition of the words, "Swing away." An alien who is killed by water! It all fits together so perfectly.</SPOILERS> Strange. When the movie was over I found myself wondering if Shyamalan had ever actually met a real human before. I know some intelligent and literate people who liked the movie, so I often wonder if I missed something. I don't know. I really hated it.
26. I hate cooking in the microwave and I hate using power tools. I'm a bit of a Luddite, which is odd since I write software for a living. I've often said I would prefer, if it were possible, to whittle software from blocks of soft wood.
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Later. Love.
