Jacked Up on Space Gel
I'm assuming that my lack of sleep this weekend and being upset- on top of stress at school is what made me susceptible to the death sickness (cold) I currently have. I first started to feel that icky draining feeling in the back of my throat on Sunday and things weren't tasting right, so I ran out and started drinking Airborne (the new pink grapefruit flavor is the best) every 3 hours, but I was too late. Last night I woke up a few times because I was coughing and two other times because I was wheezing a little and the sound was annoying me. By the end of the day, I had the full blown death sickness- complete with icky cough, congestion, sinus headache, sore throat and runny nose. So naturally, I was a bit cranky when I got home...
I took a two hour nap, called over to Phyllis to pick up my checks for August and went over. My Dad was grilling, so I stuck around for dinner. I don't really have any appetite, but at least I got some good food! They had just bought two types of Mucinex, so they gave me those new bottles to take. (Although, I can't really figure out which is better for when I'm sleeping- the DM or the extended release?) Anyways, this all leads up to my Dad giving me the crazy gel.
As most of you know, my Dad takes about 100,000 different types of supplements each day in various forms. A lot of them from this doctor who has a whole website, newsletter, etc. dedicated to extending your longevity for a very long time through purifying yourself of toxins and the like. Basically, he subscribes to this man's philosophy and takes all of that stuff and supports research people are doing so he can live forever. Part of the supplements he takes is the aforementioned gel. He tells me that it is made up of tiny spheres that cannot even be seen by a microscope (more than 10,000 would be needed to match the size of a regular cell- he says) and that it bypasses the stomach and is absorbed directly through the liver and into the blood stream. It has a shitload of Vitamin C in it- so I'm down. He told me to take it twice a day for the next two days, so we'll see how it works.
What I *can* tell you about the crazy gel is that he made me squirt it directly into my mouth and then chase it with a dixie cup of water. The package clearly says to take it on an empty stomach 15 minutes before a meal, but to mix it into a cold beverage. My Dad told me that I should absolutely NOT do that, because then "it will sit at the top of the glass floating like an oil slick." Nice mental picture right? It burnt as it was going down and now I feel kinda spacey. Actually, it has 12% alcohol (maybe for the quicker absorption through the liver?). All I know is that currently I don't feel like I'm in the right shape to be writing my Processing paper and making a new floorplan for the darkroom. I'll have to get up at 4am to do it. Wheeee! But since I have to be at the hospital before 6am all week, it probably doesn't make much of a difference in the longrun.
Oh I should also mention that I would like to extend a big fuck you to everyone making meth in their basements- because thanks to you jerks, I cannot purchase cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine without waiting in a looooooooooooong line at the pharmacy and there is a product limit on it. WTF? So I had to buy products made without it, which I seriously doubt will work as well. Now that I've taken my crazy gel, Mucinex ER and Sudafed PE Nighttime (WITHOUT ANY PSEUDOEPHEDRINE IN IT!!!)- I will try to go to bed.
P.S.- I really feel like I can still taste the gel. And that taste is what I imagine garbage would taste like. Ick!
I took a two hour nap, called over to Phyllis to pick up my checks for August and went over. My Dad was grilling, so I stuck around for dinner. I don't really have any appetite, but at least I got some good food! They had just bought two types of Mucinex, so they gave me those new bottles to take. (Although, I can't really figure out which is better for when I'm sleeping- the DM or the extended release?) Anyways, this all leads up to my Dad giving me the crazy gel.
As most of you know, my Dad takes about 100,000 different types of supplements each day in various forms. A lot of them from this doctor who has a whole website, newsletter, etc. dedicated to extending your longevity for a very long time through purifying yourself of toxins and the like. Basically, he subscribes to this man's philosophy and takes all of that stuff and supports research people are doing so he can live forever. Part of the supplements he takes is the aforementioned gel. He tells me that it is made up of tiny spheres that cannot even be seen by a microscope (more than 10,000 would be needed to match the size of a regular cell- he says) and that it bypasses the stomach and is absorbed directly through the liver and into the blood stream. It has a shitload of Vitamin C in it- so I'm down. He told me to take it twice a day for the next two days, so we'll see how it works.
What I *can* tell you about the crazy gel is that he made me squirt it directly into my mouth and then chase it with a dixie cup of water. The package clearly says to take it on an empty stomach 15 minutes before a meal, but to mix it into a cold beverage. My Dad told me that I should absolutely NOT do that, because then "it will sit at the top of the glass floating like an oil slick." Nice mental picture right? It burnt as it was going down and now I feel kinda spacey. Actually, it has 12% alcohol (maybe for the quicker absorption through the liver?). All I know is that currently I don't feel like I'm in the right shape to be writing my Processing paper and making a new floorplan for the darkroom. I'll have to get up at 4am to do it. Wheeee! But since I have to be at the hospital before 6am all week, it probably doesn't make much of a difference in the longrun.
Oh I should also mention that I would like to extend a big fuck you to everyone making meth in their basements- because thanks to you jerks, I cannot purchase cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine without waiting in a looooooooooooong line at the pharmacy and there is a product limit on it. WTF? So I had to buy products made without it, which I seriously doubt will work as well. Now that I've taken my crazy gel, Mucinex ER and Sudafed PE Nighttime (WITHOUT ANY PSEUDOEPHEDRINE IN IT!!!)- I will try to go to bed.
P.S.- I really feel like I can still taste the gel. And that taste is what I imagine garbage would taste like. Ick!