Sock Paws

Do other people do odd things when they're by themselves? I sometimes wonder what strange things would show up if I were on camera during the day when I'm alone. Do other people dance while waiting for their bread to toast? Do other people walk up and down the stairs repeatedly while eating a banana? Do other people add sound effects to dishing up lunch?

I only ask this because it's very cold in our house today. (Day two with no heat. I don't want to talk about it.) Cold is just one of those things that you deal with in a patchy fashion - there's not normally a real plan to prevent being cold, so the end effect is usually something very uncoordinated. For instance, this morning, I realized that I was in green and blue plaid pants and a red, green and white plaid shirt with pink fuzzy slippers. That, in and of itself, is a bit odd although perhaps acceptable, but I also had mismatched brown trouser socks on my hands with my sleeves tucked into the cuffs. I will also confess that I didn't want the trouble of retucking them, so I just ate a few crackers out of the box with my sock paws. Reading was a bit tricky, until I figured out how to turn the pages with my bookmark. Clearly, one of the primary functions of society is to prevent exactly this sort of thing, but it's equally clear that inventiveness only happens when one is free from concern about what other people think. Is it just me, or is all of life contradictory? And even more important, is everyone as strange when left alone?