The Diary
of
Anne Ku
4 September 2000 Monday
REPETITIVE BEHAVIOUR
On Saturday morning, I got up from my futon and immediately went to my box of photo albums. Without hesitating, I opened it and flipped through various photo albums with the intention of scanning some photos. Actually, the previous day I had thought of finding more pictures of Patty. I had been scanning my newly developed photos, and the motion of scanning took me into a mindless trance.
Yes, mindless it was. I sat down and started scanning more pictures. I opened the Epson scanner, laid the photo down, pressed pre-scan, adjusted the area I wanted to scan, and then pressed "SCAN". Before I knew it, I had scanned a dozen pictures. Before long, I had spent the entire afternoon in my study, on my computer, pursuing this mindless activity.
Yesterday, I was in the mood to read. So I sat outside and read. It wasn't mindless at all. It was very absorbing - so much so that I couldn't do anything else but read. As the sun moved behind the big trees in the back, I moved inside and started another repetitive activity: clearing and cleaning. I cleared my collection of mail. I cleaned the kitchen. I couldn't stop until the kitchen was sparkling clean.
Some photos I scanned into my photo gallery:
 | Houston 1997 |
| Singapore
1988 |  |
 | Maui 1999 |
| Chiang
Mai 1992 |  |
 | Lima 1997 |