While Bird — Window, Fidgeting, Typing.

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Window, Fidgeting, Typing.

I am fidgeting as I type, tapping and wriggling, and touching and picking at different parts of my body. It is very unbecoming.

If I stop fidgeting what happens is I immediately look up and out of the window onto the garden, and then I also stop typing.

It is like an equation:

I fidget as I type
I can stop fidgeting if I look out the window / If I stop fidgeting I will immediately look up and out the window
I cannot both look out the window and type

It is almost like the game paper, scissors, rock, where the window defeats the fidgeting and the fidgeting defeats the typing, except the window also defeats the typing. And the fidgeting does not really defeat so much as compromise the typing, (and really the fidgeting induces the look out of the window onto the garden).

At the moment the typing cannot defeat either the fidgeting, which seems to be a bit cunning, but skittish and unfocused, or the window, which seems impartial and is probably indifferent. The only hope is that the typing might outlast both the fidgeting and the window, waiting until they eventually get bored with the game and give up, or simply forget about the typing and leave me free to start getting on with things.

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