word games

[sev]

My subconscious tends to be a critical part of my game playing ability...or, for that matter, the way I address logic problems, puzzles, programming, or most other supposedly left-brain exercises. Pattern-matching is not something my conscious mind is all that good at, but I'll regularly stare at a problem for awhile and a series of potential solutions offer themselves up, usually one at a time (!) so I can look at each one and decide if it fits. I can't tell you how I get there, but I certainly get there.

This can be a problem when my subconscious is actually working on a different problem than my conscious mind is. I'm playing a word game and in the last half hour my brain has tried to spell (unsuccessfully, as none of those words were *actually* there):
hurt
prick
throb
engorge
thrum
pant
quim
coo
cunt
eros

Apparently I need to get laid.

(addendum: it keeps going...throat, gyrate, moan...I'm not sure I'm going to be able to concentrate on *anything* today.)