Inquiry to my muses:

Why am I always at my most inspired when working on English papers? This evening, I was listening to tape three of FoC to check to make sure the quality is good (bah, two slipups. And the other two tapes are perfect! Grrrr), when I was struck with inspiration. I zoomed to Microsoft Word to work it into my story, when I realized "hey, I'm supposed to be working on an English paper right now."

And my last comparable burst of inspiration occurred midway through my last English paper. And come to think of it, most of my breakthroughs in "Men at Arms" happened when I was attempting to work on my second research paper last year. Good gravy, my muses are fickle.