  So. I was still awake at 2 this morning, lying in bed, thinking about Otis Redding. Or his songs, at least. What? Doesn't EVERYBODY find themselves awake in the wee hours with Otis Redding songs in their head?
Try A Little Tenderness was ringing in mine. "Young girls do get weary, wearing that same old shaggy dress, yes.." I'm about a month away from seeing about getting a reliable car. And the behemoth I'm driving decides it's going to try and kill me before I can dispense with it. Somebody said once that I should name it Morgan, a play on morgue, for a hearse or the kind of car mob hit men might drive.
I don't know that I perceive a Chrysler Fifth Avenue as mafia material, but I'd agree with the whole grim reaper aspect to the sucker. The brakes went out. Again. After replacing the master cylinder. (don't ask me, I barely get what that is, myself) So she's trying to kill me, this metal monster. I think I simply don't get along with machinery. She resents that I'm replacing her. And now my computer is trying to commit suicide. It seems to be eating itself, insofar as memory space on the main hard drive goes. I think, overall, it means I need to spend less time with the two of them. Shed my shaggy metal dress, not let these malfunctions drag me down. It's starting to be spring and summer out there. Thinking about trying a little tenderness on myself, and seeing what goes on outside of the midnight hour.
I'll be going to the Shakespeare Festival in July, and will be taking my birthday off for the first time in years. I'm taking a couple friends to see Spiderman 2 that day. And then doing whatever else comes into my head to do. Odd concept, that. Doing whatever I want. *sighs* I do know that once my adversary is functional enough to actually STOP when I step on the brakes, I’m going to start taking drives out to the lake and other outlying areas and just go for walks.
Start breathing. (I, btw, hated Waiting To Exhale. A little overdone, for my tastes. So I’m NOT waiting to exhale, folks. This is more of an oxygenating, take it in deal) And see what Otis has to say to me, then. 
