just when you think writing sucks...

...you lie in bed, trying to fall asleep, and the ideas that have been swimming around your head for weeks finally hit one another in just the right place and you get up and turn the lights on and go to your office and write it all down before you forget--because we can't count how many times you thought you'd surely be able to remember that brilliant idea and then were stumped, completely stumped the next day--and then in the morning, this morning, it still makes sense and you want to go work on it.

Except you have to plan your classes.