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Mar. 27th, 2008 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIt's funny, if my fingernails are just ever so slightly too long, most of the time I don't notice, but just occasionally it jumps out at me and once I've noticed it's like fire on my skin, I want to tear the ends off right then and I have to deal with it immediately.
At home, cutting fingernails always feels like a minor chore, something I'll do but not something I'll want to do. Especially as nothing I do once every few weeks gets into a regular rhythm. However, I've kept a spare pare of clippers in my draw at work[1] and at work, it feels relaxing and cathartic to snip snip snip the ends away!
But then I remembered the Dilbert cartoon. It's something like Alice listening to clipping sounds from Wally's cubicle, and screaming "AGH! It's so annoying. Yet quiet enough I'll look neurotic if I say anything! It's driving me mad!" and the last panel is Wally telling Dilbert about his new screensaver, "Wally's 101 annoying cubicle sounds".
Is fingernail clipping so annoying? I can see why it might be in principle, but it doesn't feel it. It's very quiet -- practically not showing up against the background -- and lasting only a few minutes and only every few weeks. Work isn't so silent that noise would stand out. And we're spaced so only about one person might hear.
[1] along with emergency: toothbrush, alcohol and tissues. I've yet to stash shoes and underwear.
At home, cutting fingernails always feels like a minor chore, something I'll do but not something I'll want to do. Especially as nothing I do once every few weeks gets into a regular rhythm. However, I've kept a spare pare of clippers in my draw at work[1] and at work, it feels relaxing and cathartic to snip snip snip the ends away!
But then I remembered the Dilbert cartoon. It's something like Alice listening to clipping sounds from Wally's cubicle, and screaming "AGH! It's so annoying. Yet quiet enough I'll look neurotic if I say anything! It's driving me mad!" and the last panel is Wally telling Dilbert about his new screensaver, "Wally's 101 annoying cubicle sounds".
Is fingernail clipping so annoying? I can see why it might be in principle, but it doesn't feel it. It's very quiet -- practically not showing up against the background -- and lasting only a few minutes and only every few weeks. Work isn't so silent that noise would stand out. And we're spaced so only about one person might hear.
[1] along with emergency: toothbrush, alcohol and tissues. I've yet to stash shoes and underwear.