99 bottles of beer in slow-mo
okay, i was thinking about this in bed this morning so i thought i'd share it with you.
after my surgery, i woke up and couldn't focus. everything was fuzzy and it made me crazy b/c i wanted to know what time it was and i could see a clock but couldn't read the time. i'm so neurotic about knowing what time it is constantly so of course i wanted to know. eventually, i asked a nurse. after awhile, my vision cleared and i could read the clock on my own. i didn't feel tired but my eyelids felt heavy (if that makes any sense) so i kept having to close them for a second to rest them and then open them again. and so it seemed, i would blink my eyes and 30 minutes would pass by. it was freaky because i totally felt like i was just blinking. so (in my semi-anesthetized state) i decided that i wanted to measure real time with how time was moving in my mind and the only way i could think of to do this is to sing "99 bottles of beer" in my head (oh lord i hope i sang it in my head!!!) and see how much time passed. so i did. i sang all the way down to 40 bottles on the wall. it took 45 minutes. no joke. and to think that when you sing or say something in your head, it is way faster than if you say it outloud. i don't think that i was singing it in my head (please God let it have all stayed inside my head) in slow motion but rather i think i was singing several rounds of beer in regular time and then my head would shut down for a period of time. Somehow i managed to pick it up where i left off because i don't remember wondering which bottle i was on.
just thought i'd share that. oh and to all of you who work for a living, daytime tv is really freaking boring
please please please let me not have sang outloud in the recovery room. please please please
after my surgery, i woke up and couldn't focus. everything was fuzzy and it made me crazy b/c i wanted to know what time it was and i could see a clock but couldn't read the time. i'm so neurotic about knowing what time it is constantly so of course i wanted to know. eventually, i asked a nurse. after awhile, my vision cleared and i could read the clock on my own. i didn't feel tired but my eyelids felt heavy (if that makes any sense) so i kept having to close them for a second to rest them and then open them again. and so it seemed, i would blink my eyes and 30 minutes would pass by. it was freaky because i totally felt like i was just blinking. so (in my semi-anesthetized state) i decided that i wanted to measure real time with how time was moving in my mind and the only way i could think of to do this is to sing "99 bottles of beer" in my head (oh lord i hope i sang it in my head!!!) and see how much time passed. so i did. i sang all the way down to 40 bottles on the wall. it took 45 minutes. no joke. and to think that when you sing or say something in your head, it is way faster than if you say it outloud. i don't think that i was singing it in my head (please God let it have all stayed inside my head) in slow motion but rather i think i was singing several rounds of beer in regular time and then my head would shut down for a period of time. Somehow i managed to pick it up where i left off because i don't remember wondering which bottle i was on.
just thought i'd share that. oh and to all of you who work for a living, daytime tv is really freaking boring
please please please let me not have sang outloud in the recovery room. please please please