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Am I the only one that gets urges to really write during certain times of the year or on certain days, like when it’s rainy or snowy?
Granted I have the urge to write all the time but for as long as I can remember it’s been the strongest always during the fall and right up to Halloween. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because of my love for all things horror and spooky and my jonsing to write the ilk, never mind that it really isn’t my forte. Maybe it’s something about that weather where writing comes in on the wind and falls on me like the leaves.
Whatever it is, how can I mimic it throughout the entire year? Can I? I really don’t think I can because late summer and into fall, especially in New England, has a very specific feel that can’t be recreated in February or June. Maybe that’s why I yearn for the season so badly. Not only is it my favorite, but peak is my most creative peak. Will it go away when I move to California? I can tell you now October in California feels different, very different, than October in Connecticut, and I’m not just talking about the temperature.
You know, I’m making myself sound like I’m creatively bereft the rest of the year. I’m not. I have ideas running through my head all the time, every day of every week of every month. But they’re the most vibrant, the most colorful, the most crystal clear, the loudest screamers, right about now. Is there any way I can pick up Connecticut fall and take it with me to California in a bottle or something? Can I package that smell of rot and tree death in the air that triggers all those ideas? How about an air freshener? A Glade candle? Hmmm?
This was my version of a rant after a run-in with a pedantic driver in a parking lot that I originally posted on Finding Boddie. Tis better to refocus the energy more creatively, don’t you think? Just a comment on the Volkswagen driver bit: here, in the Nutmeg State, 95% of the Volkswagen drivers I’ve come across were taught to drive by lobotomized chimps on methamphetamines. Really, I’m surprised I still have fenders.
Has your brain been tied into a knot by the overwhelming stupidity of another? Is your logic meter flailing off the charts, causing your verbal communication to bumble in your mouth? Is a particular event or set of words bouncing around in your head like a Ping Pong ball on steroids? If so, your offending counterpart may be suffering from Headuprectumitis. Read on for more information on this debilitating disease.
Definition–
Headuprectumitis, in the simplest terms, is a mental disorder that causes the sufferer to think in illogical, narcissistic thoughts that have no rhyme or reason and do not compute in the universe in which we live. While this is a non-discriminating ailment, it tends to cluster in those deeming themselves part of the “I’m Better Than You” society and amongst those hiding behind the anonymity of the internet.
