I sit here in front of my new 250 dollar "refurbished" IBM desktop (my really sweet Hp laptop exploded a couple of weeks ago. Apparently it did this in retaliation to some of my writing.) with my old but very expensive monitor with a blank 'Microsoft Works' page brightly lit up. I only mention the monitor because it's not one of those fancy 'flat screen', 'high-def' monitors that make you feel like your in a cinema. No, it's a 19 inch behemoth that i bought many years ago specifically to view my photographs. It weighs a tonne and I'm pretty sure I blew out a sphincter muscle carrying it up from the basement.
But I digress.
Back to the empty page. Now it could be that I'm experiencing a sense of paranoia but I feel that it isnt so much me staring at the page, but the page staring back at me. Is it attempting to encourage me with its snow white glare? An elusive electronic muse perched, waiting to give me that awe inspiring static spark of illumination?
Or is it a demon in disguise? Mocking me, tempting me to write something atrocious on its gleaming surface only to crash in cruel defiance.
I sit here pondering these questions and I take my finger and dip it in my chocolate pudding (I like chocolate pudding.) and I draw a happy face on the gleaming white surface. I take a moment to let my eyes take in the monitor, the screen, and the happy face and I smile back at it confirming once and for all,,,,,, I've lost my bloody mind.
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This is your way of asking if any of us are reading the blog, isn't it?
It was either that or post a querry on why a 'pearl necklace' is so bloody pornographic.
And so I see you decided to do both. Way to solve *that* dilemma.
Did you expect less of me dear?
Ah Richard, those both of your posts make me feel like I've had a sane week! Thanks for making me realize there are people less fortunate! LOL At least I didn't have to clean chocolate pudding off my computer! (And yes, Laura, there are a lot of exclamation points in this but I like them so go away!)
First time here - just looking in on things... Sane is such an over rated standard - kind of like balance - I've never found writing to be the product of either! Is that why I enjoy this writers' group so much??
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