hello, brain, my old friend

[swan_tower]

We're up to 442 words on "How Heroes Fall" (its other possible title). Which doesn't sound like a lot, but since this will consist of a bunch of vignettes around a theme, it's a decent amount; it's two vignettes out of some unknown total -- maybe eight or ten.

This is, without a doubt, the most artsy-fartsy piece of crap I've ever written. My one hope is to make it good enough to remove "crap" from that equation. (Ain't nothing gonna redeem it from artsy-fartsy-hood.)

I had all three of my e-mail accounts down to thirty e-mails or less when I went to bed last night; they've bounced up a bit since then, but not much. The fact that ninety unanswered e-mails counts as brag-worthy progress tells you what state they were in before.

I'm in a weird state right now. Not enough motivation to get anything done, but enough brain to want to get something done. Can't figure out what to do with myself. Answer e-mails? Grade? Those would be useful. Write? Read? Watch something? Those would be entertaining. Clean up the house? I really ought to. But I can't settle down to anything, it seems.

Meh. Stupid temperature dropping like a rock. We skipped right over the first two stages of fall, it looks like, and went straight to grey and dismal.