Flashes of Panic

I should warn you that I have a tendency to repeat myself. I discovered this when my running partners could finish my stories for me. It's not that I have a shortage of stories; it's that I keep refining my favorites, highlighting different parts in different contexts, and so on. Practicing, I suppose. The funny part is, practicing never made me enjoy anything more; in fact, with a certain amount of practice, I get bored and prefer to skip the performance. (This is why I never got very far beyond playing an instrument and into being a musician; I couldn't easily go beyond the mechanics of manipulating the instrument and into expression.)

So, if something comes up more than once... well, you've been warned. It may take a few pick-it-up-and-turn-it-over cycles to get it out of my system.