A-Muse-ing

I have received several e-mails with comments of praise about how much you enjoy reading my journal entries. My adoring fans are always wondering how I do it. I know some of you out there probably think I agonize for a week or more before I can put the right words together which are often poignant, timely and funny. You may think I'm doing hours of research to come up with the perfect entry. Or you may be asking yourself where I get my inspiration.

I'm going to let you all in on a little secret. I'm quite lazy and a notorious procrastinator (nothing new there!). Most of the entries I write take about 15 minutes tops! That's right. I usually spit something out right before I go to bed or when I wake up. Which means you are reading stuff I wrote while I was groggy as hell, sometimes drunk or possibly from my insomniac mind! Inspiration is purely random crap floating in my head that must be purged. I wouldn't call it the cream of the mental crop. More like that stuff at the bottom of the bowl that just settles there but you eat it anyway. From what I've read in many op-ed pieces it looks like my method of editorial style writing works for most journalists too. Where do I sign up?!!