I believe that my body is flagging and I'm coming down with the common cold or flu.

Working in pathology and having to read out sick people's results all the time doesn't really help with the "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows Everywhere" mentality that you try to keep when your own body is ailing. A study should be performed on people who deal with disease all the time and the rapid decline of the rational psyche when one is growing ill. I'm sure the results would be interesting, if interesting equals going absolutely batshit insane!!!

MY FREAKING OUT INVOLVES:

Studying my blinking whilst on heavy cold & flu tablets: Slowly but surely — with or without caffiene — my eyelids slow right down and blink about a half-second apart from each other. It's like seeing the time+space continuum warp right before your very eyes. It's really sad and sort of reminds me of a maimed lizard.

My inability to speak/move properly: From various momentous events in my life, I've developed a very mild stutter when I'm on my way to being overwhelmed. When I'm overwhelmed, I'm a gobbling turkey — it happens most when I'm out without my glasses and have to read to people, like ordering from a menu. When I'm ill, I do the weird turkey thing, I tend to forget EVERYTHING about 5 seconds after I hear it (that's pretty good, since all I hear normally when most people talk is "Wharp-wharp-whaaaaarp-wharrrrrp"), and eventually stumble into walls and doors like a marionette being held by someone with Parkinson's Disease. In slow-motion.

Coffee starts tasting bad. So do cigarettes: I know it's bad when I go off my two main vices. I should probably take heed, since I'm an overuser of both stimulants, but I'm a moron so I keep going.

Lethargic and crabby: Fuck off, I can't be arsed explaining this one.

Actually, I've been teetering on the edge of sickness for the last two weeks, so maybe it's just a prolonged bout of a piss-weak strain of something. I'll get better, I always do. I'm still alive, so chillax.