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Fish Head · #2 [ ] 10-01-2006, 11:54 PM

An Experiment In Reality

October 1, 2006
8:51 A.M.
Life is like waking up on a winter’s weekend. That’s what I thought as I got out of bed. It made sense, after all, you wake up and enjoy the warmth of your bed, maybe sleep in a little bit, but soon you are forced out of your comfort zone, into the cold floors of your life. A kind of depressing philosophy, but I think it’s okay.

I dragged my feet out into the living room, and sadly the first thing I did was check what was on the television. Infomercial. Infomercial. Infomercial. Some sport I didn’t care about. I finally settled on watching The Magic Bullet infomercial. It seemed to be best of the products sold, but they didn’t use a live audience, so you aren’t sure if the product is as good as they say it is. After having watched them make various breakfast items, I realized I was hungry. Two choices. Raisin Bran, or Honey Nut Cheerios. I went with cheerios today. I poured my bowl, put in the last of a gallon of milk, grabbed a spoon, and then sat back on the couch.

Eating my cereal, I realized that the reception was getting fuzzy, I didn’t really care, I mean I could go and fix the reception, but I didn’t want to waste the energy tinkering with the antenna. Having finished my cereal, I went onto the computer and accessed the thing that keeps me alive. No, not the internet, music is what keeps me alive. My Windows Media Player is overloaded with my favorite music and music I had been told was good but hadn’t got around to listening too. After shuffling through my 4-5 star songs, I settled on Waiting for the Worms by Pink Floyd. I’ve always loved Pink Floyd, in fact I’ve listened to it for most of my life… I can’t really remember the first time I’d ever heard it… must’ve been a long time ago though.

But back to the point. Music has been my lifeline for a long time. Recently I learned that music determines my mood, so if I want to be depressed, angry, or sad, I just have to listen to the right music. Having dicked around on my computer for long enough I finally decided to get online… ah the internet, the poison of our lives. After checking my various sites, I continued to delve into my world of music. Sometimes I’ll just sit at my computer, head on the table listening to music. Suddenly, I realized I hadn’t taken a shower, I jumped from my computer desk and ran into the bathroom.

There’s nothing like a really good shower. The hot water pouring all over you, the steam rising up, utter relaxation is accomplished. The most relaxing part about a shower is that you can’t really do anything while taking one. You can’t do your homework, you can’t make any calls, all you can do is sit and relax. Having become squeaky clean, I re-enter the living room.

I could do my homework, but instead I decide to lay on the couch and watch In Living Color on DVD. You know Jim Carey (or James as he was called back then) is a frickin’ genious. He was the token white guy on the show. You don’t get that joke unless you’ve seen the show. Anyway, after laying around for about an hour, I had some pie. Interesting thing about the pie. I was in a pie eating contest the previous day. I lost because I had eaten at a barbecue and hour before. So there is a half eaten pie in my fridge that I had basically made out with. Noone in my family will eat it. So I had one chocolate crème pie all to myself, which I had eaten throughout the day.

I messed around for the rest of the day, not doing anything in particular. Finally it came time to go to youth group. We were having a retro night. I went as one of the wild and crazy guys from SNL. I found out that they were going to give everyone energy drinks when it was over, and foolishly I took one. I was feeling fine during the giant dance competition (which I didn’t win.) I lost the drawing for the PSP by 1 number (98565 the winning number being 98566.) Then we watched a quick video. It had that thing where they showed sped up traffic that would stop every once in a while. That’s when I started getting the shakes, REALLY bad. It felt like my soul had exploded, and I had know idea why, so I drank some water from the drinking fountain to try and calm myself down, but it didn’t work.

It turns out that since I hadn’t had any protein; my body wasn’t absorbing any of the taurine niacin and caffeine. I spent most of the service outside trying to calm my body down. After having run around and eaten something I felt a little better, and by that time service was over. I had learned my lesson about energy drinks, don’t drink them on an empty stomach, but I took three leftover ones home so that when I had to wake up early I could give myself a little kick in the pants and get energized.

On my way home I realized that I hadn’t prepared my green peanut butter that I needed to use as a beauty product for my Spanish class that I had the next day. Upon getting home I mixed the peanut butter and green food coloring. I wasn’t allowed to use that much and I hoped that it would be enough for what we planned to do with it. Upon finishing that I could relax. I found a hard time doing it; my mind was still running a million miles a minute. It’s one of those moments where you feel like there is more to you and everything around you. You feel like you are within an inch of learning everything, of achieving an omniscient state.

Eventually the feeling subsided as I slipped into my world of music. My mom yelled at me, commanding me to unload the dishwasher, completely killing my mood. I was still buzzed, so I was talking a little faster than I usually do, and I spent my time complaining about how there are to many damn cups (which is true, we do have too many damn cups.) I finally went to bed, still slightly buzzing, knowing that I’d probably have a hard time waking up the next day. 10:00 P.M.

Current word count: 1,116. I know that there is little detail and description. I purposely made it like that. When you see your friends each day, you don't actively describe them in your mind, and neither does my character. Remember I'm going for thought processes and inner monologue. The paragraphs are rough... if I ever edit, they will be a lot cleaner.