It’s Monday and my brain did not show up for work. Here are the various means I’m using to trick it into putting in an appearance.

1. Chocolate. Chocolate helps you get those happy brain chemicals going if you know what I mean, and I think you do. I keep medicinal chocolate around at all times. Yes, it’s medicinal. Shut up.

2. Coffee. Coffee gets the synapses snapping along. What was I thinking with the herbal tea?

3. A short walk in the fresh air. The air was 9F and may have frozen my brain cells but it did get blood pumping.

4. Re-reading the project to get back in the flow of it.

5. Timed writing. Set the timer, write. Write pure crap, write blithering gibberish, but write.