Tales from the Id

This one is for my buddy at IPS... because of a conversation we had one day about a Norse Viking named Wolfgang (classy, yet fierce) who she dances around the Christmas tree with, beer in hand. Here they are: *Note to Megan: I was thinking of titling this post "Rockin' Amadeus"

May I begin by saying that I love mornings. I love being alive in the mornings. Everything is still and fresh and wonderful. I don't love people in the mornings though. It takes a cup of coffee to prime me for any sort of conversation, and at least a few sips of coffee before I am capable of forming the words "good morning." Functioning on 3-4 hours of sleep was common at Ave after about 4 cups of coffee (o! all those nights of delirium when I forsook my bed and it despaired of my company!), and at grad school I have so far experienced this.......... once? Perhaps twice.  Once for sure in late November, just after my Ave visit and just before Thanksgiving. Now, I must point something out before you look at the sketches below.  I have named my Unconscious "Puck".  Sometimes we get along, sometimes he is contrary, sometimes he defends me, sometimes he plays pranks, and sometimes he is just plain insufferable.  He does not usually make his presence known first t

Welcome to my unconscious! His name is Puck - after the mischievous fairy in A Mid Summer's Night's Dream .  Sometimes we get along, sometimes we don't.  Here he is: Tales will be posted of him anon....

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