I got a lot of friends who are O.C.D., obsessive compulsive disorder folks, what we on the South End call Anal. Harsh word, anal, so for our purposes here we\u2019ll stick with OCD. Don\u2019t want to offend anyone, but linguistics can be a two edged knife. My pals suffering from OCD are mostly engineers, but they don\u2019t see their symptoms as suffering. Or a disorder even. In fact, they would argue that the orderliness they demand of themselves is quite possibly the panacea for the problems the rest of us have. Course, they don\u2019t factor in the fact that the problem I have is mostly them.<\/p>\n
But let\u2019s be fair. The new psychiatric diagnostic description for myself is: S.L.O.B. Seriously Lacking Obsessive Behavior. Poor toilet training as a kid, I guess. I don\u2019t have to wash my truck every damn week. I don\u2019t wash it every year some years. I accept that the universe is falling apart, what we call entropy down here in the South End Scientific Community. It\u2019s just how things work. They go to hell in a handbasket and if you want to spend your life pushing rocks up a hill like Sisyphus, be my guest. They\u2019re going to make a nice rock wall for yahoos like me when they end up down my way at the bottom.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t make my bed. I don\u2019t clean my windows. I don\u2019t dust my shelves. I don\u2019t edge my lawn. I don\u2019t stack my firewood in nice rows. I don\u2019t organize my files. I don\u2019t follow directions. I don\u2019t even look at the damn directions. I don\u2019t follow a recipe or write one down either. I mean, why? The next batch of bread or homebrew or the next meal will be different, maybe better, maybe worse. C\u2019est la vie, amigo! Routine is the killer, lists are for someone closer to death, order is for the delusional, life is chaos and the sooner you accept it, the better off you\u2019ll be. So yeah, I\u2019m SLOB.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a pharmacological cure for my ailment. But hey, I\u2019ve got a pharmacological cure for lots of my ailments, why add one that might have side-effects for the others? In the final analysis, I suppose there\u2019s a nice equilibrium between me and my OCD cronies. They draw in the lines, I draw the rest. When it works, we got a great little homeostatic community. When it doesn\u2019t, well \u2026 we\u2019ll find out what happens when gravity hits anti-gravity. Probably sounds like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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