I’m obsessed with several things – some dark, some light, some to do with you. There are some that I don’t care to talk about, although I’m sure we all engage with them.
The thing that I’m most obsessed with is finishing a daily allocation of something. Books, TV series, foodstuffs, course assignments, blogs, work, electronic communications – they all have a daily target, and they all must be completed.
The next obsession I have is people. I must look and avoid. Looking involves collecting reflected light. Who can own the light! Avoiding is about owning the light reflected from me. Hey, whoever said I was not a complex person!
One obsession that surprises and puzzles me when I think about it is communication. I love imparting and receiving information about me and you. It puzzles me to say that because I don’t think I’m very good at doing this. Fear.
Learning about stuff that scares me is another obsession of mine. Rather than shy away from objects of fear, I move towards them and watch them from a safe distance that diminishes the more I get to know them. The internet is safe.
That’s all I can think of for now. See if you can figure out how many of my obsessions I have acted on by writing this.
Too many obsessions!
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Really? But what would life be without obsessions, Shreya? 🙂
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Nothing.
Our obsession keep us stick to the things we love. 😊❤️
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That’s a beautiful way of looking at things, Shreya – thanks for that. 🙂
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😊
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Makes life interesting.
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Life? Don’t talk to me about life! Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and I’m writing about obsessions on a blog!
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Sigh. We all have them.
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Care to share yours?
Perhaps you already wrote about them on you blog. 🙂
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Not on mine but on someone else’s.
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Intriguing. Tell me more! 🙂
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Haha, not here I’m not!
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😉 ’nuff said.
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Could you elaborate on what you mean by reflected light? And owning it?
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Oh, that just means that the light comes from the sun, bounces off people and enters the eye of the beholder. It’s like a justification for being able to look at people. No-one owns the light – not the mirror nor the person from whom it reflects. Lame, right?
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Thanks for the explanation. Not lame at all.
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It’s a justification for ogling women – of course it’s lame. 😀
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Ogle is a great word. 😁
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Hmm. But you wouldn’t like it would you. I mean – if it happened to you.
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It would depend on whether I find the ogler attractive. As honest a response as you could ask for.
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Like the t-shirt that says ‘Hi Handsome’ on the front and ‘Not You!’ on the back. 🙂
Well, kinda.
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You made me laugh. 😁
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Good. It’s nice to hear someone say that they laughed. 🙂
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My name starts with S, but it’s not Someone. 😉
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Is your name Snippy? 😀
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What kind of parents do you think I have? 😁 Okay, I’m going out for a short walk, and I’m taking you with me, Robert. ☺
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I got engrossed in a movie. 🙂
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Phew! I thought you’d wandered off somewhere during “our” walk.
Whatcha watchin’?
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Everybody Wants Some!! – a 2016 movie about the 1980s in the US. College boys and all of that.
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Sounds light-hearted.
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It was funny. It lifted me somewhat.
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You were down?
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No. Normal. It heightened my normality to hilarity. 😉
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Alles klar.
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Ah! Deutsch ist eine sehr ehrliche Sprache.
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Do you ever watch foreign films?
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That was a foreign film! The US is not here. 😉
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Oh là là…les anglais…
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Yes ma’am!
But yes, to answer your question more directly – I do like to watch the odd Hindi movie. Not so keen on Continental European movies. I like US movies. Also, on a more tangential note – being as we’re talking about foreign things, I like the songs of Aubrey Drake Graham aka Drake. What music did you like as a teenager?
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I must’ve read this post at least five times already because it’s so thought provoking. Is that an obsession? 😉
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I was going to ask you what your obsessions are. Would that be on the list? 🙂
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Maybe. 😋
Off the top of my head in no particular order: sugar, intellectual stimulation, communication, thought-chasing (tracing my own thought trail), my appearance…
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Yeah, all of that makes sense. Apart from the appearance part, all of those are manifest in your online persona.
One day I’ll learn to speak normal. 🙂
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Really? That revealing, eh? (Gotta slip the Canadian “eh” in there.)
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That reminds me – did you get around to listening to my English voice yet?
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Don’t you think I would’ve mentioned it already if I had? ☺
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Perhaps. Or maybe you were saving the announcement until I asked? I know some stuff about you, but I don’t have an all encompassing understanding of your character and personality as yet. Some people save their announcements for a special occasion, like … 14:44hr on a Friday afternoon! 🙂
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I don’t save announcements for special occasions. And why do you keep referring to “your English voice”?
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Oh, wait – wind it back, I just remembered – you’re Canadian, which means you prolly have some French affiliation, and French people despise the English. I was moving forward on the basis of speaking to the ‘rest of the world’, who love the English and all things English, including the English accent. Mea culpa. 😉
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Au contraire, mon cher Robert. (Like the rhyme?) How could you refer to the English accent as one accent? There are quite a few of regional ones. I’m sure yours us delightful. 😊
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I don’t really have much of a regional accent, although I do good impersonations of them on demand. 🙂
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How come? Moved around too much?
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I put some effort into it. My region is Yorkshire and, to some ears, that accent can sound a bit thick (stupid).
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Like the Southern accent in the U.S.?
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Bit like that, yeah.
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I’m gonna have a heck if a time finding those video links you sent me yesterday. And your spoken voice one.
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See. I told you so. 🙂
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You know-it-all. 😉
I will comb through your comments to find them. Your stats might spike a bit.
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Okay, okay – the search term on Google was ‘levishedated SoundCloud’.
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I remembered THAT part. 😉
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🙂
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Or just look at https://levishedated.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/comedy/
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Merci!
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C’est moi !
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Oui, je sais que c’est toi.
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C’est moi that should be thanking toi is all as I meant. 😉
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Ha ha. I’ve been getting a bad tension headache every weekend (usually Sunday) for the past year or so; it’s like clockwork. That’s why I started going to the chiropractor and massage therapist. I’m just way too tense.
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Try a weekend without books, computers, phones, movies and Mondays (take the day off) and see how that feels. 🙂
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Kill me now. 😉
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Or just stick with that headache. 😉
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You don’t get regular headaches?
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I used to get one every Monday afternoon. They were pretty regular. But I took active steps to relax (meditation) and they stopped.
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Wow! I’m impressed.
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It was just the stress of work – that’s all. Once I realised that, I just relaxed the heck out of the stress. But I guess that you understood that already. 🙂
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Das habe ich verstanden. 😊
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Sehr gut. You pick your languages well. You tend to use those I have a moderate grasp of (including English).
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Modesty looks weird on you.
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I kinda winced at that. Thoughts like ‘am I that clever? no’ and ‘I want to be more modest’ and ‘what?’ flashed across my mind. They were the only ones I was quick enough to catch. There may have been others. 🙂
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What?!
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I don’t know. I try to be mindful and it allows me to pick up all kinds of stuff that flashes by. Most of it is irrelevant. I’ve been ignoring my body’s command that I drink liquid for too long now. Glass of cool water coming up.
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That’s awesome. I try to do that too.
It’s 4°C, so no gloves!
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It’s going to snow there next Friday apparently. 🙂
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Yay! 😁
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Thought you might be pleased. 🙂
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Oops, no exclamation mark meant.
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What?
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Forget it. Me being OCD.
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What? How can I forget it if I don’t know what to forget?! And that’s me being OCD! 🙂
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I also hate forgetting what I forgot to forget
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Hahaha – yeah, that’s about the shape and size of it. 🙂
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Can you do impersonations of foreign accents?
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Yes I can! 🙂
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Which one(s) do you do best?
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Well, duh! Yorkshire!! 🙂
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Don’t “duh” me. 😉 I meant foreign accents.
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I can do some foreign accents, but not Canadian – if there is such a thing.
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Just like the generic American accent, except for “Canadian raising” with certain dipthongs. And a few unique terms like tuque.
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Dipthong. Hmm – is that when your thong is too tight and it dips into … *shakes head and walks off, muttering under his breath*
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Ha ha ha. Brush up on your linguistics, Mr. Robert C Day. 😁
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Uh-oh. Formal name. Bad Robert!
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Did you slap your hand with a wooden ruler?
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Wouldn’t you just like that!
No, I put myself over my knee and gave myself a jolly old spanking.
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That’s physically impossible.
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… but mentally invigorating. 😉
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You and your speedy wit. 😁
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*bows*
You done listening to me yet?
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No. *standing ovation*
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Really? You stood? Or just in your metaphorical mind! 🙂
You started to listen to me yet?
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I don’t feel right listening to you at work. I want to listen to you at home – my sanctuary. 😊
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What?! You’re still at work? Go home, S! There are pussies to be caressed, meals to be had, showers to be taken, t-shirts to be donned and and beds to snuggle up into! 🙂
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Yes, because I haven’t been productive today, and I feel very guilty. Not guilty enough not to chat with you, though.
I’m still full from the pizza. I should, however, go home to feed my felines. My OH (other half) will be out drinking green beer.
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Sounds like you have it all sussed. Kind of. 🙂
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How would you know?? 😊
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I wouldn’t know – you’re right. It just ‘sounds’ that way. What I hear and what I know are not always the same. 🙂
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My boss just came in and said he’s “kicking me out”.
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Ah – that’s okay then. It’s funny – he must have read my mind. 🙂
You have far to go to get home?
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Sorry for disappearing. Other boss just came in, and we had a chat about Black Mirror, the monetary system, Buddhism, etc. No, not far. Just a 25 minute walk. But I told you that once already. (I remember you have a 35 minute walk). Bosses invited me upstairs to smoke marijuana; I said no thanks.
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That’s okay. 🙂
Someone told me that I should watch Black Mirror, in particular the one where he gets chipped in his brain. Sounds like fun.
You crossing the Saskatchewan on the way? 🙂
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I’ve watched all of them. I don’t like that episode. It hits too close to home.
No, not crossing Saskatchewan. 😃
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Never seen any. That sounds like the most exciting.
North of the river, huh. 🙂
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Yep.
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There is so much that is called ‘Shaw’ in that city. Do they own it or something?
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Shaw is one of the major telecommunication providers. I used to have a Shaw email address.
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That too. 🙂
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What too?
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What you just said. 🙂
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No, only metaphorically.
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