Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?~ Morpheus
Things that have not been on my mind: Delta waves. Healthy O2 saturation. Rest.
Things that have been on my mind: The recent House story arch, Fight Club, Dissidence.
I have sleep apnea. Officially undiagnosed, but there anyway. For quite a while now I have woken up every morning feeling fatigue nearly equivalent to when I fell asleep. While I have yet to hallucinate during my waking hours, I have had a few potentially unpleasant episodes while driving to work in the morning. This has not been addressed medically for one reason: If the Navy decides they want me, I will have THEM diagnose it, then pay me disability for the rest of my life. If the Navy decides my medical history is too shady and they don't want me, well, then ill get checked out immediately.
I digress...
In recent weeks I've noticed that things have become less... weighty. I still have every desire to go to work in the morning and satisfy customers and proform admirably. I still run in the evenings. I still see my friends socially on a regular basis. But when things happen in the course of the day that should create stress... Its like I'm slowly becoming a duck's ass. Things just roll off me. This has helped my customer service considerably, as it allows me to deal with both loud and angry assholes as if they we'rent spitting in my face. I've noticed also that my usually very very low inhibitions in social situations are even lower lately. This should alarm any of you who've known me for any length of time. I was on a counter humping a cash register in a gamestop full of people in the mall on my lunch break the other day. It was very brief, but it happened. Tonight I had a conversation about precolombian architecture with everyone in the back area (what used to be the smoking section) of my local Denny's. I would like to point out that I know little to nothing about the subject and was making it up from whole cloth at full tilt as the converation wore on, and even presided over a debate about columns (doric and ionic).
I stayed up for excessive amounts of time often enough in my youth to be wary of the next stage of sleep deprivation. The Navy can't give me an answer soon enough.
OH about that.
I have discussed enlisting as a Cryptologic Technician Interpretive (translater with security clearance) and have even fetched my medical records for the recruiter. I go soon to take the ASFAB then DLAB. Could be very very good. Feel free to completely skip the obligitory 'bad time to join the military' and 'your gonna get shot' and 'the military is hard' and 'your selling yourself to the government' and 'you have a problem with athority' speaches please.
Anyway, my copy of a copy of a copy of a copy needs to fade to black for a while now.
...anyone wanna start a Fight Club?
5.15.2009
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