Jolt Country

A co-worker takes happy pills to cut down on his anxiety. I have no anxiety. He had about 900 days worth of pills. What happens when a guy with no problems take a single pill designed to stop problems?

Maybe it was all in my mind, but three hours after I took it I was driving home and I felt like someone else was driving. That I was a spectator. Actually, you know how you can see the little winged guy carry around the camera in Mario 64 if you go near a mirror? I felt like that guy.

Now, again, perhaps one day and one pill is not enough time and material to even feel anything. I'm just saying, is all.

It occurs to me that I need my anger, alertness and rage on the road, because I was really stopping in not nearly enough time. Did I mention that I-25 in Denver exclusively features stop and go traffic? About 10,000 times? Sorry. I gave even more space when I drove home yesterday, and my reaction times were still shit.

On Sunday I got 4 hours of sleep. On Monday I got 5 hours of sleep. I went to get 8 hours yesterday, but I couldn't fall asleep for an hour. This never happens to me. I don't think about anything before turning in, yet the night after I took a pill to not worry I couldn't instantly fall asleep. And I truly needed it. 4.5 hours of sleep is SHIT, but I do it so that in a year's time you can all enjoy Gerrit and Lex's grinning visages looking at you from your monitor.

I have no idea if my feeling of "being separate" was genuine, and I make no judgments. I just thought I'd write about it because, hell, not much of anything else is going on around here.

Was that #100 in the Top 100 Drug Use Stories of All Time? Because that kind of sucked...

Bugs wrote:Was that #100 in the Top 100 Drug Use Stories of All Time? Because that kind of sucked...

Yeah, my dog is taking phenobarbitol, fer fuck's sake.

Bruce

That was the Mr. Do! of drug stories.

Was that crappy writing? I'm sorry. If only I had something I could blame, ha HA!

Not crappy writing, RobbBb... Just crappy living.

Fuck's sakes, I have better drug stories than that.

You walk that line, bwah.

Have a good bowel movement while you're at it.

I would advise that you not drive while high. It's dangerous to yourself and others, and you're far more likely to get busted.

Sorry to sound so preachy, but a good friend of mine was laid up in the hospital recently for reconstructive surgery on his pelvis because some girl hit his car head-on while drunk off her ass.

hygraed wrote:I would advise that you not drive while high. It's dangerous to yourself and others, and you're far more likely to get busted.

Sorry to sound so preachy, but a good friend of mine was laid up in the hospital recently for reconstructive surgery on his pelvis because some girl hit his car head-on while drunk off her ass.

You're right, of course. I had no idea that such effects were even possible, but this is why doctors give people these pills and not co-workers.

(Is it OK for me to say that I was still driving better than 50% of the people in rush hour Denver traffic? Probably not. Let's forget I went here.)

It's not preachy at all, and certainly the experience will give me great pause before popping any other pill that I come across in the future. I think it was the first thing I had ever tried that was the result of modern medicine besides the really strong painkillers I got for my knee surgery last year. I see ads for pills on TV all the time and sometimes the commercials even describe what they do a little. I was in uncharted territory!

Does anyone remember me? I just thought I'd pop in and mention me.

Yes! I threw you a "How are you?" e-mail a few weeks ago. How are you doing, bud?

I am fine. Finally back in Edinburgh with a hilarious story about buying a flat. Which I will proceed to write up.

What is happening with you?

Lex wrote:but it does involve having to lift an Xbox.

Oh. Well, I'm out. Maybe when my family comes to visit in two Christmases.

Wrong thread, you gebus.

Thanks. I need to go into the admin account to kill the spam registrations and then I post with it incorrectly. Argh.


Arrrgh!