Good Idea: Sending your girlfriend the following text message: “Theme for today: were I a composer, I’d be unable to create so sweet an aria as your voice, so stunning a sonata as your eyes, nor movements so profound as you.”

Bad Idea: Later telling her that you wrote it while you were waiting in line to buy chicken tenders at Wal*Mart.

And for those of you wondering, yes, I come up with “themes” for every day (mostly. I think I may have missed once since I started doing it).