Dear brain

[bunn]

No, you may not have a nap
No, you may not have another cup of tea.
No, you may not pet the cat.
No, you may not use social media.
No, you may not paint.
No, sneakily researching painting reference images does not count as productivity.

Just do the bloody work, OK?

NO NO NO DO NOT GO TO SLEEP! WAKE UP WAKE UP!

Oh all right.  You may have more coffee.  If you must.   And you may give the dogs a 2-minute training session, it's supposed to be good for their brains, maybe it will do something for human brains too.

Comments

[timetiger.livejournal.com]

Sneaky brain did get you to use social media, I see. My brain is much the same, though the closest it gets to asking to paint is festooning things with little drawings of snails wearing hats. And sometimes hedgehogs.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I tend not to count LJ as social media. It seems more leisurely and thoughtful, and much less contributory to unproductive fury. :-D

Do the snails wear hats on top of their eye-stalks, or on their heads with the eye-stalks poking through, or even *between* their eyestalks....?

:-D

[timetiger.livejournal.com]

Yes, LJ is a thing apart, in a very good way.

Do you know, my snails look exactly the same as they did when I was thirteen and innocent of the fact that they even have eyestalks? They have antennae that either poke through their hats (toppers, flat caps, beanies) or, occasionally, hairdos, or curve elegantly around them. They also tend to favor tartan scarves.