- style:
- should i remove all "you/yours"?
- should i remove all "self"?
- how about ones that are quite physically literal?
- deadpan, skeptical, amused, vaguely disturbed, occasionally achieving great success
- the messages:
- Whispering in your ear...
- Smirking...
- Smelling the petrichor...
- Divining your secrets...
- Backing away...
- Trying very hard...
- Double-checking...
- Taking a quick vacation...
- Wondering...
- Wandering...
- Paying careful attention...
- Waffling to self...
- Shushing...
- Transgressing...
- Traversing...
- Curling up on your shoulder...
- Generalizing...
- Making snap decisions...
- Going out on a limb...
- Turtlenecking...
- Telescoping...
- Taking chances...
- Testing your mettle...
- Checking under your bed...
- Assessing form and function...
- Confirming your qualifications...
- Quieting down...
- Rushing...
- Consulting the deck...
- Earmarking...
- Dog-earing...
- Staring at you intently...
- Gesticulating behind your back...
- Turning the tables...
- Pulling the rug out...
- Eureka!
- Testing the waters...
- Questioning everything...
- Putting it delicately...
- Playing devil's advocate...
- Being more assertive...
- Rolling up sleeves...
- Pushing your buttons...
- Pulling the strings...
- Squinting...
- Going over your head...
- Clicking...
- Wrenching free...
- Peering over the edge...
- Thirsting for knowledge...
- Taking stock...
- Being brave...
- Bringing it on...
- Getting goosebumps...
- Sterilizing tools...
- Gathering requirements...
- Calculating...
- Congratulating self...
- Spinning clouds...
- Grasping...
- Collating thoughts...
- Building expectations...
- Speaking figuratively...
- Reassessing convictions...
- Coming up with something to say...
- Getting a leg up...
- Giving you a hand...
- Inflating sense of self...
- Jury rigging...
- Chasing ghosts...
- FUCK, WAIT A SECOND--
- Percolating...
- Entertaining the possibility...
- I can't even...
- Pulling out all the stops...
- Leaving the deep end...
- Cutting loose threads...
- Tying up loose ends...
- Reinventing self...
- [Out of body experience...]
- Lucidly dreaming...
- Suddenly concerned...
- Just thought of something...
- Can't think...
- Doubting free will...
- Let's see...
- Arguing semiotics...
- Brushing up on Plato...
- Buttressing stoicism...
- Rescheduling plans...
- Counting very quickly to 100...
- Stepping on your toes...
- Getting out of the way...
- Bursting bubbles...
- Investing in you...
- Divulging secrets...
- Architecting...
- Puppeteering [BLAH]...
- Orchestrating [BLAH]...
- Raising hairs...
- [too literal?]
- Filling up the tank...
- Clipping your hangnail...
- Stretching...
- Leaping overboard...
- Airlifting in supplies...
- Taking a deep breath...
- Scratching an itch...
- Exhaling...
- Throwing away newspaper clippings...
- Removing the label...
- [temporally conditional ones?]
- Eyeing your breakfast/lunch/dinner...
- Watching the sunset/sunrise...
- Shaking off sleep...