too structured, completely closed off
29 September 1999

Two melancholy days.

And then this familiar phrase floated through my mind and it finally took hold... in a lightbulb-shining-over-my-head kind of way.

Sally: "I'm difficult."

Harry: "Challenging."

Sally: "I'm too structured... I'm completely closed off."

Harry: "But in a good way."

The bright, shining example of this is the way I hovered over Todd's desk today, purging scraps of paper and filing hopeless paperwork, and in general, inching him closer and closer to a stroke. I kidnapped a piece of paper with six consultants' names scribbled on it and rewrote it with my font-like printing: perfectly centered both vertically and horizontally on the page. As I handed it back to Todd he said, "Your pathetic life has dropped to a new low level."

I couldn't agree more.

What's your psychosis?