I’m in one of those moods where I erase everything I write: where every thought seems fragmentary and insubstantial, and sentences like this one don’t know where they’re supposed to conclude. I have looked at nothing today besides my work (and a couple of the links that Mike suggested), and I have that running-in-place feeling about it all.

A moment’s elation an hour ago: Jessica downloaded Journey’s 1979(?) semi-hit “Feelin’ That Way” – a song which impressed itself so deeply upon my consciousness, in the dark backward of pre-teen time, that I had completely forgotten about it, buried it under the 80’s power ballads that my cooler junior high classmates necked to in the back of the bus, coming home from some regional choir competition…and suddenly today it surfaced again in memory: Steve Perry’s faux-soul stylings twining around the mellower vocals by…that other guy. It became an itch in the mind, until scratching it became overpoweringly necessary. Ah…