Broken fan [my mind]
Apr. 22nd, 2002 12:07 amI have a fan in my room. It's one of the little box style fans, the cheap kind you can get at the supermarket every summer when it starts warming up.
The thing about it is, I got this fan a year ago, maybe more, maybe less. (Probably less; I was dirt poor a year ago; we had to hit the food bank once. [I ate the ham.]) Thing is, the fan's gotten worn to the point where it won't turn over once turned on if it hasn't been running for an arbitrary length of time. The juice flows to it, though. You hear the slight buzz of the motor as the fan tries to move, maybe creep-crawls at maybe 1/120 rpm. I take my nail file, stick it between the cracks, and hand-turn the thing until it finally turns over, picks up speed, starts on its own.
Once it's going, it's fine.
My mind is like that, especially in regard to the Deeper Truths. Someone says something, and I realize that the other reason I've had a headache today is because that hadn't been said yet. Synchronicity's a witch. The cat runs headfirst into the wall at the moment that I realize this.
The thing about it is, I got this fan a year ago, maybe more, maybe less. (Probably less; I was dirt poor a year ago; we had to hit the food bank once. [I ate the ham.]) Thing is, the fan's gotten worn to the point where it won't turn over once turned on if it hasn't been running for an arbitrary length of time. The juice flows to it, though. You hear the slight buzz of the motor as the fan tries to move, maybe creep-crawls at maybe 1/120 rpm. I take my nail file, stick it between the cracks, and hand-turn the thing until it finally turns over, picks up speed, starts on its own.
Once it's going, it's fine.
My mind is like that, especially in regard to the Deeper Truths. Someone says something, and I realize that the other reason I've had a headache today is because that hadn't been said yet. Synchronicity's a witch. The cat runs headfirst into the wall at the moment that I realize this.