Why, when I hear someone say that they absolutely hate reading about something, or absolutely want to see something in a story, do I immediately want to find a way to make such things happen? For example, I find myself with an urge to write a SF story with no mass transit whatsoever and people wearing skin-tight clothing...all for very good reasons, of course.

Right now, though, my hand is tired and my shoulders hurt from three hours of steady writing on the Human Resources test. Blech. What does it prove about my knowledge if I can copy paragraphs from a book onto a test paper? Although, it might be preparing me for endless citations of EO and ADA law....

Blech.