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• Where do you get all your great ideas?

It’s important to adhere to a strict schedule that starts with having gotten too little sleep because The Ghost and Mr. Chicken was on late-night cable and your new allergy medication causes jitters, sensations of falling, and double hearing, all of which kept you up and terrified most of the night.  It’s then necessary to have a constant stream of caffeine and vending machine mini donuts, and a proximity to the magic markers we write with because of the court ordered removal of pointy objects from our office space.  Aside from that, there’s a lot of listening awkwardly to other peoples’ conversations while gorging on treats from the birthday celebration of someone you don’t know, and then letting your mind wander while sleeping through the sugar and caffeine crash for the rest of the afternoon.  And research.