Electrical Dysfunction

My day job involves getting electronics to behave, which is just unfortunate, especially after any night (or day) where I did anything ceremonial.

Papa reminds us that we are, in essence, conducting a sort of electrical current (which makes sense, given that one of the symptoms for me involves the little hairs on my body standing up), and as such devices that also conduct current behave oddly around us.

He’s not kidding. I did something ceremonial last night and my work computer is currently doing truly bizarre things—the cursor is anywhere on the screen but where the computer thinks it is. Things are opening in duplicate, but I can’t close the copy. Communications are disrupted, resulting in me abruptly leaving meetings. Network diagnostics tell me the local network is great, but as far as I can tell, my work computer is somewhere on Mars and we’re using a snail courier service to communicate.

I’ve seen electronics do bizarre things around him as well, especially during ceremonies.

It’s not really that much of a price to pay, all things considered. It’s also a great opportunity to meditate on chaos, the result of which I can say:

The lwa represent cosmic laws. They are chaos to lesser rules, among them the formal provisions we view as natural laws.

Odd to say, but it’s one of my favorite things about them. There’s something enormously comforting in disruption.