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			Delusions - De File Does Collecting Make You Feel Dirty?

cbertsch


	Delusions
	I'm in a strange space today. I keep having to fight back delusions of exclusion. It can't really be true that everyone is doing things behind my back. Or can it? Mode: whine-nighty Muse: Etta James, festive

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From: batdina	Date: December 19th, 2004 11:18 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Well I might be, but then I live in another state so almost anything I do could be said to be behind your back.

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	From: tommix	Date: December 19th, 2004 11:35 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I'm eating cookies. Still feel excluded? :-)

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	From: kdotdammit	Date: December 20th, 2004 12:07 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

See what happens when you go to French-Male-Mid-Life-Crisis movies. We should have known better.

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From: sittinginaroom	Date: December 20th, 2004 01:00 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I also ate a cookie without telling you. Sorry. You'll be happy to know that I also, more out of spite than anything, decided to exclude tommix from my cookie-eating, thus granting me two bonus "scene points," which were subtracted from his total. Your total remains the same. Gene Shalit's total hovers at zero.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: December 20th, 2004 01:25 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Kim's right: I shouldn't have seen Red Lights today. I was just at Fry's buying a new mop head and had a sudden urge to buy a flask-sized bottle of whiskey!

Thank you all for your ironic words, which helped to calm me down. I still feel paranoid, but the scope of the mania is narrowing.

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	From: tpratt	Date: December 20th, 2004 05:00 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

depends on what kind of whiskey, I suppose. Old Crow? Maybe. Wild Turkey? Oh, yes, please. Seriously, though, chin up, my friend. Even people you haven't seen in years have your back. In the words of Charles Manson as heard on the album Creator by the Lemonheads, "if there's anything I can do for you...let me know".

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	From: cbertsch	Date: December 20th, 2004 10:25 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

That was very kind of you, my friend. The feeling is mutual.

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	From: chefxh	Date: December 20th, 2004 02:02 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I wrote in the letter that got me a culinary internship:

This is not my midlife sports car.

*grin* Hang on, pal.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: December 20th, 2004 03:19 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

He-he. I'm still holding out for a Porsche, though. . . :-)

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User: cbertsch Name: Charlie Bertsch

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ABOUT DE FILE

You're looking at content from my Live Journal, which I have been keeping since 2003. I consider it a personal blog, though it lacks stream-of-consciousness revelations that typify that genre.

That said, if you manage to discern the confessional mode within entries that are superficially tight-lipped, I will reward you handsomely. Or at least pretend to do so.

In addition to reflections, however mediated, on my daily activities, De File features periodic excavations of material from my "files," a revelation sure to disturb anyone who has seen my garage. It's an experiment in integrating past and present, perhaps with a little redemption along the way.

Politics is always on my mind, but rarely explicit here. I’m working on a theory about what personal writing like this does to literary identification and why some people resist its pull so powerfully. But my goal is to make that theory dissolve in my practice, a density in liquid.

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