October 01, 2002

Spider crawling

I saw a spider crawling across my desk today and I starting thinking about movement. He was tiny and moving very slowly; I watched him take about twenty seconds to make it across my mousepad. He was probably born in the building and will die here, never really knowing what it feels like outside. That is a little depressing to me given all of the good places right outside for him to build his web.

Where do I go? I spend most of my time in this little mousepad of my own, I drive to and from work on the same path, I walk down the same halls in the same direction, I visit the same places on the weekend. Seen from above, my movement patterns over my entire life look like the first ten seconds of a mice trying to find his way out of an enormous, complex maze.

Suddenly jealous of the spider, I move to kill him, but he is gone.

October 1, 2002 06:33 PM