I like to make things when I get a little "out there". It helps me think more clearly. The idea for a porn lamp came about 6 weeks into a 3-month stretch of insomnia. So, I worked on cutting out and pasting porn onto an old lamp instead of sleeping. I gave it to a college-aged son of a friend, which seems like a fitting place for such a lamp. It was quite lovely and I still laugh when I think about it. As a side note, wielding an exacto knife on very little sleep is ill advised.

I also used to watch/listen to Law & Order because it gave just enough distraction from all the "brain noise" that there was a chance that I could fall asleep. I feel like one of Pavlov's dogs now, because now I fall alseep almost every time I watch the show.