anyone who says they write their own material is lying

Dialogue from last night's dream:

[Tim Robbins, as his annoying hippie character from High Fidelty, is talking to the angry guy whose girlfriend he stole.]
TIM ROBBINS
Look, women don't care about that stuff. You know what they care about?
GUY
Meeting the elephant?
[PAUSE FOR AUDIENCE LAUGH]
TIM ROBBINS
[RUMMAGING IN THE HALL CLOSET]
They care if you're kind, and they care if you can jazz dance.
[HANDS GUY A PAIR OF LIME GREEN PARACHUTE PANTS]
These are a large, so they might be a little 'heavy', but try them on. Now move like you're trying to keep your balance in a big sloshing bedpan.

Surely all the credit must go to the subconscious. We just listen, bemused, and write down what we can use.

I woke up around seven in the false dawn and thought "This would be a good time to go for a run." About a half-hour later, I woke up fully. I was halfway into Beacon Hill Park, thinking "Huh. I'm on a run." I ran for a bit. "Huh. I haven't been for a run since May."

Partly (as I've mentioned here in the past) this is because when I was running regularly with the ex-co-conspirator, I developed exercise-related asthma. Instead of getting better over time, as they tell you it will, it got worse. My doctor gave me an inhaler to use before a run, but it didn't seem to help. Today I put it in my pocket and used it partway through the run when I started to feel wheezy. That worked like a hot damn. (Would a cold damn not work as well?)

I seem to be implementing Silent Resolutions slowly over the month of January.

( Why Not: The Five Weird Habits Meme )

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