Now, can you say that all in one breath?
Anna, it wasn't really that hard. I just turned off my natural babble-filters, which, really, aren't that strong in the first place, if you think about it, because I do tend to go on and on with these long random trains of thought (often interrupted by short-to-medium-length parentheticals -- and yes, I do actually think in parentheticals), and so all I really had to do was encourage that tendency while trying to come up with fun and random things along the way and... I'll shut up now.
I am impressed with those who can come up with shorter entries, like last year's "The boat skipped across the harbor in exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't." Babbling is easy. That (whatever it is) takes talent (of a sort...
).
Paul
