Far From Golden….

July 31, 2005

Bad things:

1. Every minute I try to sleep I feel like I’m gone for a hundred years, yet when I wake and look at the clock only minutes have been won....
2. I’m out of paracetamol and pain killers - I’m down to those in-descript tablets that are always left in the cabinet and could be anything....
3. My sheets are drenched in sweat yet my teeth are trying to play a tune through the medium of chatter....
4. My dreams are seriously fucked up and I seem to be waking up tired instead of refreshed....
5. One of my dreams had that kid from Kindergarten cop going ”it might be a tumour” and me replying in an Ahhhnold voice “No its not a Tumour!”....
6. One of my dreams was about something to do with cheese and things made out of cheese - which I usually dream about when I am a bit fucked up health wise - so therefore I know its not just a mild cold.....
7. Touching my skin feels like putting my hand in a bucket of ice cold water - freezing yet still burning at the same time....
8. Put your finger under your ear, dead centre - drag it down about 3 or 4 centimetres - just were your jaw finishes - yes there - that bit - feels like a punchbag - what the fuck is that about? can’t move my head around very much....
9. yesterday I was not quite praying to the porcelain god - now I am a recent disciple....
10. Food is just not happening....
11. This happens on a weekend! what a wonderful sense of humour life has sometimes…
12. Vodka and horror movies are also not helping....

Good things:

1. If this is a tropical disease moving in Stages, then we are on stage 3 after 3 days....
2. Though of course I don’t know how many stages there are....
3. I’ve lost 1 kilo....
4. This can’t be chicken flu as I have not been near any chickens....
5. I’ve watched the end of OZ season 4 and have learned that if you go to jail Nazi’s will fuck you in the ass, drug dealers will steal your shoes and the guards will beat the crap out of you for the sheer hell of it - Prison sucks.....
6. Water feels like the nectar of the gods when drunk - like Toast, water is severely underrated
7. I’m pretty sure this is the revenge of the gods of Karma for laughing at the joke about the Blow up Sex Doll and the Muslim Faith - If the Gods are reading I’d like to apologise and protest that I didn’t write the damn thing - someone emailed it to me - the punishment does not fit the crime damn it! - and no, I’m not telling you who mailed it to me - I’m no rat.... I’ve seen what happens to them in OZ…
8. ....Alright it was Ben.....
9. I probably don’t have to go to work tomorrow and will go to the super dooper expat expensive clinic first thing and put it all on insurance.....
10. If I have to go to hospital like that time I got a virus in Mombassa then hospitals are usually pretty decent places to loaf for a bit - cable, three meals a day to your bed, nurses to prop you up instead of actually sitting up...... I might get to go on a drip - drips are cool - it’s drinking without the effort....
11. Visits to the bathroom are not yet reminding me of the movie title “A River Runs Through It” (sorry if that is too much information hehehe)....
12. I still have a sense of humour (although as you see with the gods of karma that might be what got me into this)....