No Blog Today
I'm not sure what I want to talk about today.
Maybe I could say something to do with how i feel irritation to see someone using a superfluous amount of handtowels or napkins - which is a shame because I see it so often.
I could talk about young children and how when they piont to things they angle their hands horizontally while adults angle them vertically. That's intersting - however breif.
Or on a personal note, there's the inexplicable tiredness of today and yesterday that saw me get out of bed in the former instance, slump from sitting on my stairs to lie down for a while on the landing, and in the latter to sit on the edge of the bath and rest my head on the sink clutching a toothbrush i hadn't yet brought myself to use. It even resulted in my getting a video (Lost in Translation - It was good while I lasted) after work last night because I didn't want to read but I had to switch it off and go to bed before it ended - even though I thought it was very much worth watching.
I could even make room for a few lines of how I just about manage to mask feelings that are descending daily toward contempt and loathing for someone I am in the presence of for about thirty hours a week, but I am ultimately unconcerned by this - its a normal aspect of the working environment.
I find the vignettes from the Children's Court that appear in the Irish Times very interesting and there haven't been any this week.
I bought a red apple for a change and it was too hard to eat.
None of these things seem fit for blogs really and even if they are jumbled up together they just read like ramblings of a drunk or a hangoveree or an insomniac or depressed individual. I'd like to think that I'm none of the above. We all have moments.
So there will no blog today - just an admission that inspiration is proving elusive and a window (that needs cleaning) inside my temporarily sluggish little head.
1 Comments:
Well Sass,
You make an intresting point - namely that my theory is wrong.
Despite this detail however, I think there are questions to be answered. For example, does the meaning of your point change depending on the angle of your hand? Parents give out by wagging their finger with a vertical hand - is this more aggressive? And is there any significance in these differences that could explain why the real bad asses fire their handguns side-ways in 'the movies'?
As for the Japanese, it's rude to point in Japan and so people indicate with an open palm as opposed to a finger.
I only have dealings with one monkey and he was less than forthcoming on the subject. When he points it's often with a cigarette so that doesn't help really but sometimes he points with the palm facing up. Apart from him and spiderman, I don't really know anyone else who does this though but i think you will see it appear subtley when someone is speaking.
It's interesting to note also the similar but different meanings to pionting up in the air and down onto the other palm or onto a table when speaking. 'Up' seems to suggest power while 'down' seems to suggest aggression and upset.
We're all familiar with the "I did not...have... sexual realations... with that woman..." point. It's now spoiled for everyone - anyone who uses it will be found out immediately. But on reflection... did anyone believe those words the first time?
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