Your blogger returns after a tiring two days of work and watching the final "The Lord of the Rings" movie. He is tempted to start with a review of LOTR, but since he only slept two hours last night (on the office floor) his normal tired rants would be super sized beyond human comprehension. He eagerly awaits tomorrow's challenge of writing a review of LOTR that effectively teases everyone involved.

Now readers of this blog may be disturbed that Mark Bigger decided to sleep for a very limited time no the confines of a second story office of the Oregon Capitol Building. They may think that he must not be the same sensible Mark that so simply declares and clarifies truth on this blog. They wonder if it is supreme love of work, a fine commitment to duty, or an overridingly important project that has so consumed his time in the past two days.

Your blogger explains.

Sensible. Mark is still the same sensible fellow that you all know and love. He is just carefully concealing his sensibleness between several layers of carefully constructed yarn. Which I've just spun.

As for Mark's supreme love of work, his fine commitment, the importance of what he is doing, and all that stuff, I ask you to look at his law school career.

What a fine one it was. And do you know why? Creativity.

Where others saw a lesson plan, Mark planned his life around lessons. He carefully skirted them, almost as carefully as he skirts skirts. He may not have had the best grades. He may not have been the teachers pet. But he chartered new ground in the psychological world of study avoidance.

Some people were overcome by guilt, a desire to do their best, competition, or just plain fear of failure. But Mark Bigger never let little things like that cause him to yield to the terrible peer pressure of studying. Then calmly, methodically, with all of the serene assurance of a cat with its tail on fire, Mark would study for a terrifyingly food, sleep, and entertainment free week or two before taking his final. Gray hairs grew on all forms of life within reach of his screams.

But before those two weeks rolled around, he stood, sometimes alone, a tribute to the wonderful psychological power of study avoidance.

Now how is this related to occasionally working through the night at the Capitol? hmm, good point. Could it be - that in a completely calmly calculated way of course - that Mark Bigger has slightly compulsive tendencies of behavior? Maybe he just likes the idea of being the only one in the Capitol working. In fact, he thinks it's rather boring to work when other people around, but at 3 AM in the morning, it has a certain charm.

Really, I can't think of what I'm saying and I can't think of what to say. So I'm saying that I'm thinking of not saying anymore thoughts.