I came too close to heaven

March 21: turbid

I'm a quart low on sleep lately, so my mind sometimes wanders and my imagination gets somewhat turbid around the middle of the day.

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1. When do you have your most inspired thoughts?
   late at night. Ironic, isn't it, given the word-of-the-day statement? But if I was operating under optimal circumstances, I wouldn't be waking up at the ungodly hour that I have been lately, for sure, and that would make it a lot easier to cook out profundity at 1:AM.



2. Of whose voice do you never tire?
   
   
   my friends'. All of them. Each of them, I mean. In their own ways, and at their own times. Those voices shore me up and save me, in huge and tiny ways, every day. I would be lost without them.



3. What is the most elaborate project or endeavor you have completed?
   
   
   my M.A. thesis, I suppose. I can open that book and...it's sort of like if you blindfolded me and dropped me anywhere in my hometown: I would know exactly where I was, because it's so much a part of me. That's how it is when I read those words.



4. What is something that you love about your job?
   
   
   getting lost in the details, while still knowing that, in some ways, I have control over the entire thing, too. My position is an odd mix of macro- and micro-level importance. It is both minutia and strategy; the tactical level is handled by others, which is exactly the way that I want it.



5. What is the last song you got stuck in your head?
   
   
   "Fall Victim" by Alkaline Trio. I'm working on a project for Sparky....
   
   

[from The Cat, who got it here; the title quotation is from "Fall Victim"]