Mondayverse of Madness

• I’m afraid to look at my Garmin to see how well (or in this case, poorly) I slept.
• It’s going to look like an EKG.
• All I know is that it’s early, I’m drinking my coffee, and as of yet, I cannot brain.
• My eyelids felt slow to respond for at least the first hour I was awake.
• I wonder if there’s some adrenal stimulus you could do first thing on Mondays.
• Like, some sort of being-chased-by-an-apex-predator kind of experience that’s not actually getting chased.
• I don’t mean instantly.
• Give yourself 10 minutes or so.
• We don’t want anyone having a heart attack, after all.
• Braaaaaaains.
• Someone told me when you stretch out a word like that, you do it on the vowel, so we’re trying that out today.
• Sounds right.
• Anyone watch the sportsball action last night?
• We turned it on at halftime to relive the rap of our misspent youth.
• I liked the part where Eminem stopped singing and you could still hear his voice.
• You know Prince didn’t stand for that nonsense when he did the Superbowl.
• For that matter, how in the world has Metallica not been invited to play?
• What in the holy …
• And speaking of that, I saw an ad for … foot masks … in my Facebook feed over the weekend.
• They are apparently to reduce dry skin and calluses.
• Foot. Masks.
• Just marinate on that for awhile.
• Also, I’m Gen X, man. I don’t think I’m the demo for … foot masks.
• I just get a file from the garage and …
• Stream of consciousness writing is what we do when we have writer’s block or it’s a Monday morning and there’s a list to write.
• You just start typing whatever pops into your head, and edit it later.
• (I’m not going to edit out the foot masks bit.)
• (I’m also probably not going to have any deep thoughts by the end. The coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. It’s like when your fuel pump on your car is going out, and when you turn the key the starter just kicks over and over without the engine firing up.)
• The book juggling is going fine, since you asked.
• Reading both my Blind Date book and The Atlas Six at the same time.
• Very different writing styles and experiences, but I’m enjoying them both a lot.
• Which is nice.
• Been sort of floundering in readingland lately.
• And I’m not sure why that is.
• I wonder (and I’ll Google it in a minute) if there’ve been any studies as to why sometimes you can’t settle down and read when that’s your norm?
• We apparently missed the Dr. Strange trailer last night.
• The Teenager sent me an email this morning:
• “I watched the Multiverse of Madness trailer without you because Ruby asked me if I’d seen it and I felt very ashamed that I forgot about it.”
• Enjoy your multiverse of madness Monday, kids.
• These days won’t last, or something.

*The photo above is the first paragraph from my Blind Date with a Book, The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins.