Tea

Due to several unforeseen circumstances I was unable to remove the teabag from my Thermos this morning for over an hour. As a result, my usually delicious Irish Breakfast Tea is exceptionally bitter and almost undrinkable. Rage. On the plus side, I ordered a brand new laptop, which I am very excited to receive as this current one has been moments from a total meltdown for several weeks. And, so that this doesn't feel like some journal (which it is, in a sense), a paragraph from (or rather about) the screenplay I'm writing (for class, not out of choice).

One star lights this dim cellar corner part of the Galaxy. Three planets on silent orbits, the light from the star melted over their spherical bodies. Warm, thick light from the star. There is an asteroid belt here that stretches around the solar system like a chain link fence. The planets all orbit behind each other, each one eclipsing the star from the planet behind it. When I reach this solar system, my mission is to drop chains and release Earth into orbit directly opposite the first planet. I am the blind pilot of spaceship Earth.