Because my sister and I just re-watched Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet we can't stop roaring things like "TEMPT NOT A DESPERATE MAN" and "THEN I DEFY YOU, STARS" at each other the way the actors sound like they are having high-volume seizures in every speech. It's also been a week of spicy food and wine and hot evenings and a lot of laughing.
I've always believed that small talk is necessary before big talk can happen, but have you ever had the feeling of maneuvering your way in and out of small talk so much so that you can no longer remember what it's like to have big talk? Or maybe that the line between small and big talk is really extremely fine? Especially since I think that saying what you really feel, i.e. not small talk, is the best way to break the ice, although of course not everyone may agree, including the person you're trying to break the ice with.
I've been trying to reconstruct my creative writing portfolio, which hasn't actually existed since maybe J1, and quite seriously it's like building muscle, with that much unused self-discipline involved.