What David Sedaris Told Me

This is also a place for me to catalog ideas.
I just don't understand how people keep track of ideas. Because "inspiration occurs at the least conspicuous of times." That's probably from something. So I "quotes-ed" it. Fucking sue me.

I've seen David Sedaris read twice. Once at Vromans bookstore to a small audience before he was a big, big deal. The second time was at Steppenwolf in Chicago where I got to usher and see it for free. At the Q and A, I asked him:
"Where do you keep all your ideas? How do you keep track of them all? Like the ones that aren't connected to anything you're writing currently, but you want to save anyway?"

He answered that he keeps a tiny notebook in his best pocket of his shirt. He pulled the one out he was currently using. It was one of those tiny, seventy-five cent, lined notebooks that have the spirals at the top. Where you "flip" the pages instead of "turn" them. Unless you were wring Chinese, then I guess you'd turn it because you read up and down. Crazy culture they have.

Anyway, he explained further because I'm pretty sure I was high (on power) and yelled out/interrupted him with, "But what do you do with your ideas AFTER!?!? Like, do you just have boxes and boxes of those little notebooks? How do you remember where you put something? Or how do you not just forget about one little joke or something?!?! HOW."

He responded, softly, as if to calm down the one creepy idiot in the crowd that will never do anything with her life, "Well, I categorize them by time periods. Like, I'm doing a book tour right now that last a month. So I'll have a couple notebooks after the month is over. Then I'll take all of them that I've used up, go through them, and re-write what seems necessary to keep down in another journal. Then I throw the rest out."

I could never do that. I think because I don't think about my life in chronicled, separate time periods. Because I'm still young AND I'M GONNA LIVE FOREVER!!!! And I don't have anything that separates today from tomorrow. Or the next day. Know what I mean? I think it's what people call "a career" or "upward mobility" or "movement." Yeah, I have no movement. Just ask my fat ass! Whoa! Someone got all Cathy on us!!

So the point of this blog will now be a place for me to keep all my stupid, little ideas. Complete with a picture!
But isn't the point of a blog so you can say shit to the world?
I don't have anything to say.
So I guess the point of the last post was "I'm gonna keep up on this, so you should read it!!"
And now I've already changed-me-tune to "I'm gonna keep up on this, so you should not waste your time reading it!"
I wonder what the next five minutes will bring...