okay, I think I'll have tea today. :-)

this seems interesting. I've heard of a similar technique to read if it's too hard to focus on a long text, covering all of the page with something but the current sentence

though it's also the repressed human urge to scream in the woods. a private place where you can just put your thoughts and not worry about the form of them so much. that's, at least toward me

I used the idea to write a one-line program that just gets lines from terminal input and does nothing with them, and I can see already that that is such a relief