nightstand, misinterpretation
Feb. 19th, 2026 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
comix64life has been going well. today i bought Gravity's Rainbow and The Pale King. i was at barnes & noble, so of course i probably could've also bought The Tatami Galaxy had i looked for it, but i just plain forgot. and anyway, i dont want to get ahead of myself while i still haven't finished Infinite Jest or even House of Leaves (i paused the latter to start reading the former). but anyway, i organized my nightstand/bookshelf and i sorted up all of my stuff, not by name or anything, but by category. i sorted it sloppy (i just put things in by physical size of the book, i think), sure, but i know where everything is. the top left area are all fiction novels (A Wrinkle in Time, Fahrenheit 451, etc.), the top right are all other kinds of fiction (Scott Pilgrim, Calvin & Hobbes, etc.), the bottom left (second shelf) is instructional/educational/guidebook stuff (what if?, The Art of UNIX Programming, etc.), and the bottom right is entirely barren because i just honestly do not have that many books yet (at least, not ones i want in my bookshelf. i have like two shitty joke books from when i was like 5 which i allegedly used to teach myself how to read, which i used to bother the living shit out of anyone around me while i carried it). i only recently started having a more general want to read things, which sounds weird, but as you may know one can live a life without reading anything, living in Da Streetz and having nothing on their person at any time, and i want to live the opposite life, because reading is cool.
@ the dentist, i didnt really talk much and i generally tried to keep quiet but there was a point in which the Main Dentistry Guy whose name was like Aaron or Adam or something started on a whole thing about me not paying attention and how it "tells a story you know" which was something he did as a grand misinterpretation of not being able to see me silently nod or then me mistaking him nudging me(??????) for bumping into my shoulder while messing with some esoteric tooth apparatus and thus ignoring the nudges entirely (until, like, the fifth nudge where i then realized what they were). i didnt really do anything about the spiel he gave but i felt he was a smart guy and he didnt really know much about me so for all he could've known i was a total douchebag, which isnt the impression i wanted to give at all, but alas i tend to treat clinical spaces like the military, i dont speak unless prompted (and there were a few times where i confused the sort of Unnecessary Casual Banter they let you ignore (mostly anything that ends in OK? counts, as well as the So how was your? as long as you give a brief enough answer w/o looking too as if you specifically disagree with the idea of banter) with the sort of Entirely Necessary Statements they expect you to nod to or whatever). the incident messed up my mood for a couple hours, but i moved on.
@ the dentist, i didnt really talk much and i generally tried to keep quiet but there was a point in which the Main Dentistry Guy whose name was like Aaron or Adam or something started on a whole thing about me not paying attention and how it "tells a story you know" which was something he did as a grand misinterpretation of not being able to see me silently nod or then me mistaking him nudging me(??????) for bumping into my shoulder while messing with some esoteric tooth apparatus and thus ignoring the nudges entirely (until, like, the fifth nudge where i then realized what they were). i didnt really do anything about the spiel he gave but i felt he was a smart guy and he didnt really know much about me so for all he could've known i was a total douchebag, which isnt the impression i wanted to give at all, but alas i tend to treat clinical spaces like the military, i dont speak unless prompted (and there were a few times where i confused the sort of Unnecessary Casual Banter they let you ignore (mostly anything that ends in OK? counts, as well as the So how was your? as long as you give a brief enough answer w/o looking too as if you specifically disagree with the idea of banter) with the sort of Entirely Necessary Statements they expect you to nod to or whatever). the incident messed up my mood for a couple hours, but i moved on.
