Gone with the Dream 夢と共に去りぬ

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Since I launched this blog, it's been my daily job to look for any interesting materials for this blog ranging from political stories to family issues. Even if finding a good one, there is another problem, i.e., remembering it until it's written. Actually, keep remembering stories is much more difficult finding them because I usually come up with good stuff at an inconvenient time or place, such as while in the bathroom or asleep.

A couple of days ago, we (i.e., my husband and I) went to see his cousins. We had a good meal and coffee and talked a lot. Being stimulated by the conversation with them, I woke up in the middle of the night with a very good material, even remembering my excitement, although I had to give up on taking a note of it because doing so would completely wake me up (I've been having terrible cold for the last week), while being aware that without writing it down, I would forget about it on the following morning.

I'm sure that the material was one in a hundred good stories that I'd ever come up with, but that it will never come to me.

ブログ開設以来、政治から家族までネタ探しするのが日課になっている。ただ、ネタを思いついても実際に書くまで覚えていられるかは別問題。実は、思いつくより忘れないことのほうがよっぽど大変。思いつくのはトイレとか寝ているときとか、いつも変なときだからである。

つい先日、夫のいとこ会があり、おいしいご飯を食べてコーヒーを飲み、いっぱいおしゃべりしたことに刺激されたせいか、夜中にネタを思いつき興奮したところまでは覚えているのだが、メモしなければと思いつつ、メモなどしたら完全に目が覚めて寝付けなくなってしまう、と煩悶しながらそのまま寝てしまいました。その週、風邪ひいていたので仕方ないっか....

忘れてしまったネタは100個に一つあるかないかの希少ネタ（のはず）。だけど私のところにはもう二度と降りてこないだろう。