The *Bleep*ing Count!

Thanks to both kallisti and labyrinthman, I present to you, The Count. You know, I don't know if this is NSFW or not. I mean, nothings been added to the original Sesame Street lyrics. Something has just been taken out, but somehow the way one's mind decides to fill the gaps can be highly suggestive.

Ow! Where did the day go?

I was up until around 3:00 am last night. A bit longer than I had planned, but not excessively so. I set my alarm for 11:00 AM and went to bed.  ... and I just now woke up. I vaguely recall the alarm going off, and must have either turned it off, or slept right through it. In either case I overslept by roughly 8 hours. As a result, I missed going to buy a new chair today as planned, and right now I'm going to miss the RPG session that I've been looking forward to for the last three weeks.

I have just woken up, and I would have had to catch the bus 30 minutes ago to get there on time. Even if I hustled, I couldn't manage to be less that two hours late for a 3-hour game, if I was lucky.

On top of everything else, the oversleep has caused me to have a migraine. So I've taken some pills and I'm drinking lots of coffee, and now I have to replan my week.

Or is it just the Drugs?

I just noticed I'm feeling very good right now. I'm still kinda bumbed about missing the RPG session tonight (the shopping can be done tomorrow, but I hate letting friends down), but otherwise feeling really good. Partly thats because I'm very well rested right now, which helps a lot. Partly its because the Migraine is gone. I don't know if it will be back or not, or if the lingering feelings of goodness are due to the AC&C I took to combat the migraine.

In the NaNo novel that I'm not writing right now (haven't written a word in 2 weeks, due to having other demands on my time) I have an alien 'drug' that grants perfect health to whoever takes it. I've been describing the effects of no longer having any minor aches, pains or whatnot as being mildly euphoric. The assumption is that everyone has minor health problems that they've long since learned to filter out of their perceptions, and its not until they're all cured at once that they realize just how much of a burden its been.

Of course, I have no proof that this is the case, but I strongly suspect that most folks have a small litany of bodily complaints they've learned to ignore, on top of the larger ones that they're actually aware of on a daily basis. What say you? Does this make sense or is it hokey?