It's my third post...

... and I already have writer's block. I feel like Justin Timberlake when he had to cancel those shows from his most recent tour because he was hungover, only I'm not hungover and I was never in a multi-million dollar profiting boy band. There are probably some other things that JT and I lack in common, but we both understand the extraordinary pressure the public places on us to persevere and be ever-entertaining.

Every day, several ideas pop into my head that could be made into a blog, but I always forget them. Then, when I do remember them, I remember them all at once and try and figure out a way to fit them all into my next post so I don't forget/leave out any. I then recall the scene in season two of Arrested Development (perhaps the smartest/wittiest/most intelligent/best television series of all time) when Gob rattles out all of Michael's years-long-to-develop business ideas in one meeting rather than spread them out over time and decided that this would simply exhaust my supply. So, at fear of eventually having nothing to blog about, I better keep it pretty low key right now, right?

Perhaps I should follow suit and go on strike. Is there a guild for bloggers? It seems to me that the recent writer's guild strike will yield some creative material from writers that have now found new time to work on projects that they may have pushed aside for higher paying ones, etc. ( See: Arrested Development movie gossip.) With this philosophy, it only seems logical that I refrain from blogging for a while, during which time the "real" ideas will come flowing to my fingertips. Alas, don't worry my pretties; the world of blogging is far too seductive for me to give up now. Instead, you merely must prepare yourself with sub-mediocre standards per every post!

Anyway, some high points of my recent two night stint with inexorable insomnia:

• a newfound reverence for Super Monkey Ball (the best video game of all time)
• the discovery of the television series Locked Up RAW (MSNBC) and Psychic Children: Children of the Paranormal (A&E)
• reading through 4 of the 8 psychology journals due on Tuesday (400 page book yet to be started)
• coming to terms with the fact that psychic children scare me perhaps more than anything else in the world and that I cannot sleep after watching a show about them

What is with the stigma that surrounds being afraid of the dark and the accompanying spirits that materialize given dim lighting conditions? So I like to have another (living) person near me when I sleep- that doesn't make me any less mature. I know that I can survive on my own in the dark, but you are never completely certain with predictions of possession, kidnapping, body snatching, etc. and personally I do not like to take my chances. Sometimes I wish that people would stop trying to pretend that they don't occasionally hallucinate/night dream/or just plain get a little nervous when alone in the dark . Sometimes, I wish people would just grow down.

edit: Just for some muscle behind my claims- the wise Dave Barry once said, “All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required”