Was that last one really worth it? Would anyone other than myself really care about my list of favorite professional sports teams? Does it really matter if anyone else cares about it?Should I write as if anyone else is reading it? I guess it depends on whether or not this is a personal diary or some kind of attempt to write something with merit.
Part of my problem is that I seem to write these entries either early in the morning or late at night. I usually am tired and can't get much other than the top of my brain down on paper. I guess sometimes that is good, but most of the time I end up writing lists of sports teams or my anxiety about whatever I am handling at the office. So I scrape the sludge off the top and leave the deep stuff behind. It is only when I feel compelled to write something in the middle of the morning or late in the afternoon that it is decent. You could probably gauge my entries from an interest factor in direct correlation to the time of day I wrote them. If they are interesting, they were probably written in the late afternoon or morning. If they are stupid they were probably written early in the morning or late at night.
I remember for awhile I kept a notepad next to my bedside. I would have these brainstorms in the middle of the night and wake up to write them down. Unfortunately, the things that occur to us in the middle of the night are usually half-formed pieces of wimsey and fluff which don't really go anywhere. Only Samuel Taylor Coleridge was fortunate enough to grab a piece of his thoughts and turn it into art. I know that most every amazing piece of poetry that occurred to me that was later written down in my notepad usually ended up to be something illegible or incomprehensible when I woke up the next morning.
It is seven in the morning now and I have to move toward getting together for work this morning. I will check with Kate to see if she is coming in with me. I'll continue the data dump later.
Friday, May 25, 2007
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