The brain is a poorly understood organ

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List of things I do that have no point or rhyme or reason or meaning but are compulsive and necessary:

• Say “you are the cat!” to the cat, often
  
• Count while peeing as if the number when I finish is significant
  
• Rest one hand on the gearshift while driving although I have not driven stick for many years
  
• Look at pretty girls
  
• Continue through a story doggedly even when I realize everyone has heard it
  
• Shake a bottle of pills slightly before taking one
  
• Spin the vinyl backwards when putting a vinyl record on a turntable
  
• Get up every day and live my life in the absence of evidence that it’s meaningful
  
• Take a toothpick from the restaurant front counter
  
• Try to repair damaged friendships
  
• Bark at dogs
  

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POINT/COUNTERPOINT

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* Kitty needs to know her place
* OK, that's weird. But then, I tell inanimate objects to 'STAY!' when I drop them.
* I haven't adopted that habit, but now that there is nowhere to rest my right arm when I'm driving I'm in a constand quandry with what to do with it
* Congratulations! You're normal!
* While I despise telling my own stories to the same crowd twice, I never mind hearing yours again.
* interesting...
* I get up every day and live my life as though the silly little obsessions and weird art music I make constitute meaning, though I suspect they don't
* I've tried to get into toothpicks, but I just. don't. get. them.
* I have a bad habit of walking away at the slightest amount of difficulty, though I did try a couple years ago and found it painful, irksome, and ultimately unsuccessful. YMMV.
* I do that, too. And I 'mrowr' at cats.