semi-useful distractions

Creativity is not efficient. A minute can last a day and a day can last an hour. Sometimes Creativity disappears completely or wanders around the back alleys for weeks at a time. Creativity understands the secret meanings of the months when nothing seems to get done.

Laying totally still is never something I've been capable of doing for more than 30 seconds. This is why MRIs make me angry and why back pain makes me more fidgety than is reasonable.

I started writing (whining....) around 4, when the last batch of infomercials ended and the counting and strategic breathing/fist clenching had lost its effectiveness. And in my experience, laying there "to think" results in me just soaking in a slightly less pathetic version of self-pity.

I came up with nothing better than spotting a few patterns on my wall and humming a Neil Young song that had been stuck in my head earlier that evening.