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It was there a second ago.

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I just put it down for a moment.

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In front of the monitor. That's where it was. It was there.

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But.

Where is it now?

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I want to paint, but I have no paint. I want to draw, but my pen has vanished. I want to read, but my book is in Starbucks. I want to work, but the internet is down.

And when I have paint, when I find the pen, when I retrieve the book, when the connections are made.. all I want to do, is nothing.

My feng shui is misaligned. Mercury is casting a retrograde shadow across my affairs. The poltergeist awakes. Or something. Maybe it's a sign that my life needs some rearranging, that it's time to take myself up on that backlog of new years' resolutions and put things in their proper places, maybe then the universe will realign and I'll be a better per-

Oh wait, there it is.