Well foo. Need to go back to the drawing board now....

Hey, be glad it's NOW and not after everything is finished. (been there...)

This is true

It would probably be better if I actually stopped trying to design with my head all clogged up, but... work needs to be done.

You have to remember that design is a process. the first thing you decide on is RARELY the thing you wind up with.

True. Just not thinking on all cylinders, mostly thinking how it'd be nice to stop sneezing

My suggestion from someone whos been there is to do nothing but sketch ideas today.

dont put too much effort into making finalized things. you can come back to the sketches when youre feeling better.

It would be a good test of my inkling, I suppose

when youre done you will have several ideas to examine, but you havent put in enough effort to worry about scrapping them.