Why I Wouldn't Be Any Good At Being A Fingerbobs Puppeteer At The Moment.*

Oh I feel miserable.

I've got a problem that I can't talk to anyone about but yet it would be nice to talk it through in order to clear my head of all the wispy bits of thought about it that are currently floating around. I hate things like that. I just keep batting away the thoughts as they flicker through my head and instead I am trying to distract myself from the whole rather pointless cycle of thinking about things I can't solve.

The trouble is distraction can't take the form of anything artlike, since my finger is still bent. It curves slightly to the left and is bent over like the top curve of a C and no matter how hard I try it just won't straighten. It doesn't hurt, it just doesn't work which is a little annoying because it is making my writing really messy, I can't really hold my paintbrush very well so I can't start the tree painting I want to do and I'm too scared to pick up a pencil and try drawing just in case it's all fucked up.

I can't mow the lawn since it's raining, and although I guess I could go and hang up all the clothes that are currently strewn all over my bedroom floor, it's not much fun and distraction tactics are supposed to be enjoyable, aren't they?

* Fingerbobs puppets rely on having your middle finger out straight to be the head and all the other fingers bent downwards at right angles in order to make the puppets legs. Since my ring finger won't bend downward anymore than it will straighten, my Fingerbobs puppet would therefore have one gammy looking leg and would probably scare small children.