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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. This morning as i was waking up from involuntary slumber, i discovered that i had a running nose and a persistent sniffle.
Not as awe inspiring. But the way i look at it,if i were an insect i could have crawled up the wall. Exsistensialist or not,that is surely preferable to sitting pretty with a sniffle. When you have a cold its almost like being in purgatory. Its an in-between thing which isn't nearly necessary. Id rather get a fever, go through a happy daze period and garner sympathy the way a wounded war hero does.
Right now im staring at the roof. Still, it gives me a chance to start writing.

Some time ago,when i was a seven year old actually, i wrote what i still consider to be my best story. Recently, i happened to chance upon it. It was written in an old 'long' notebook. That's the kind you use after you enter high school. In lower grades you are made to use the square notebook, which fits more snugly into a bag. The square notebook will usually be covered in brown paper. In the school i went to,it was compulsary to put on top of the brown paper a 'plastic' cover. As i remember it, stationery manufacturers soon caught on and we had readymade plastic covered brown paper. It was all nice and glossy with the plastic almost a part of the paper. At that time it was one of life's mysteries. How do the brown paper people make the plastic covered brown paper?
You can't quite carry the square notebook in your hands. It just dosen't look right. Most are hard cover and cannot be folded to make a telescope. The ones that can be folded are disproportionate and look most dissapointing. There s no point to carrying a non-verstile notebook. A notebook should fold into spirals,so that when you look at the world through it you are a pirate. It should be thin enough to tuck into your waistband and thick enough to seem important. A long notebook, a hundred unlined pages thick with flowers on the cover and a trivia quiz at the back. Pure gold as far as a seven year old used to the uniformity of square notebooks goes.