Hippopotamus

You know the bit about the medieval alchemist who could change lead to gold, as long as he didn't think about a hippopotamus during the process? For many months now, I've had a hippopotamus on my mind. Yesterday, for the first time since the hippopotamus first showed up, I didn't think about the hippopotamus at all.

Today I felt slightly guilty that I had forgotten the hippopotamus for a bit, but damn, it took up a lot of space in my head, and it's not like I don't still care about the hippopotamus; it's just that I'm not thinking about it all the time any more. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll look at turning lead to gold.