Drabble a Day Challenge - restless

[alien_snipe]

He'd never been good about keeping multiple pots on the fire, especially when he was in the final stages of a project and lost in a manic flurry of tinkering. So when he finally finished a project, he would find himself with nothing at all to do but wait for his next royalty check.

He would mope about for a few days. Jot down random notes on scraps of paper all around the house and forget them. Sit over cups of tepid tea for hours, fiddling aimlessly with his hands. Spoony would tell him over and over to take it easy for a day and chill, maybe crack a video game. Of course, he meant well, but he didn't understand. How could he stay cooped up in here when there were so many problems in the world crying out for the balm of science?

Soon enough one such problem would sort itself out of the throng, something would spark his imagination, and he would be back to work, chipper as ever. It was the time preceeding that flash of inspiration that he really couldn't stand. There was nothing that got under his skin worse than restlessness.

Comments

[angel-in-ink.livejournal.com]

I'm loving all your rolereversal-verse drabbles! And I kinda feel like this when I'm in between writing projects, so it speaks to me.