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Workday Overdose...
Mar. 5th, 2001 01:18 pmOh god this has been a strange morning, and the afternoon promises to be strange as well.
I'm acutely aware of my desk bouncing around like crazy as I type. I know it does this but not this much normally. Maybe I'm pressing the keyboard too hard but it doesn't feel like it. At least I'm not tripping as hard now.
At work this morning I was coughing a little so I went to the chemist and bought some cough medicine (Robitussin DM for future reference). Outlander and I kind of drank too much. The bottle said to take 10ml every 6 hours and I think we may have had about 30ml in 10 minutes. It wasn't intentional, we just didn't have a measuring glass...
Anyway, about 1/2 an hour after that we started feeling funny, and made the comment that the stuff tasted kind of like rum when we drank it - whereupon we immediately began feeling warm. And tingly. All over.
Perhaps we should have twigged upon this as a good sign that we'd had too much and go and drink about 3 litres of water or something, but oh no - for we are smart.
So instead we sat around in front of our manager tripping out at our workstations and I attempted to write MySQL for about 15 minutes, and accomplished not a workable line, I'm proud to say.
Eventually we managed to mention somehow that we were going out for lunch and got out of the building. We stumbled for what seemed like hours and kilometres down the road... in the burning sun. It took us ages to get across the road even with the aid of the pedestrian crossing button. We were walking downhill on a road which had parked cars on the right hand side, and every time I turned around I thought they were moving and jumped back onto the footpath, which usually had a car pulling out of a driveway which meant that I nearly got myself run over about 3 times. Incredible that I'm still here, really.
We eventually managed to find our way into the car park of another building, and discovered a large staircase which seemed to ascend virtually to infinity, so we rode up it... we went out of the building again and found the subway, which appeared to have lights coming out of it, but which were really only neon.
When we went inside, however, is when things became bizarre!
We almost hurt ourselves trying to open the door, and when we did get inside we were trying to find the TV which was making us think that the wall was talking. Eventually we decided to ignore it and order. We attempted to order gibberish for a little bit, realised we weren't making sense, then I fell over. With the hilarity of that, we both cracked up and were laughing so hard that we had to sit down. We couldn't stop to save ourselves and eventually I really needed to pee, so we got up again and made a hasty exit, howling with laughter, and hurting ourselves on the door on the way out. :)
We made our way back to the infinite escalator and I asked a lady working at a cafe where the toilets were, I couldn't work out why she looked at me strangely until I realised that I had tears from laughing pouring down my face.
We found the toilets. They were in the strange place. There was a compactor near them and a the face of a giant kitten in a window of what looked to be a small building (which was in an underground car park, mind). We decided to ignore that also.
I used the facilities and found a miniature human in the toilets. I spoke to the miniature human, which spoke back quite nicely - but then I decided to beat another hasty retreat because the parental unit of the miniature human was in a cubicle, and had heard me calling her offspring a 'miniature human'. So when I came out I was howling with laughter again.
We attempted to run across the car park. This again almost got us killed.
Without incident (amazingly), we managed to make it back to the Subway. We giggled for awhile and then managed to order this time in a way that could be understood by non-chemically enhanced humanoids. We only laughed a few times while trying to pay.
We giggled our way through some subway sandwiches which tasted good. I only had to argue with mine a little before it would let me eat it. So everyone was undoubtedly happy. After we had eaten, we consulted a timepiece and found that only 25 minutes had elapsed since we left the office. We thought it had been at least an hour, so were quite pleased.
Wandering out we encountered a light shop, which turned out to be a veritable fairyland of lights hanging from the ceiling and everything looking really cool. Needless to say the attendant almost pounced upon us because we looked like we were going to break something. She managed to restrain me to only breaking one light. It wasn't very expensive (I hope). After this we walked into Cash Converters, and again had attendants following us around. We were asked how we were going about 50 times in 5 minutes. So I asked them a question about how much I would get for this phone on the steps of my house, and even though we were wigged out of our brains still, we knew it was a bad price. We were about to buy a whole heap of stuff there - but then thought that possibly buying things whilst we were tripping would be a bad idea, lest we were to buy something silly and/or useless.
Anyway, we walked out of there and for some reason a time-dilation effect had meant that we'd spent 1/2 an hour looking in 2 shops! So we had to start walking back...
This wasn't so bad, except for the encounter at the cheesecake shop. I almost bought some cheesecake, but after a verbal argument (yes, verbalised) between my tongue and my stomache (my tongue was saying it would taste good and my stomache was saying that it was already hurting and that I wouldn't be tasting it for the 6 hours following its consumption). My stomache won that argument hands down, especially since I already had a tummy ache for some reason. Anyway!
Walking back uphill was weird. We weren't as crazily looped, but the world kept going hot and cold, and I almost had to stop to play with a trail of ants.
I guess for the rest of the day we're going to have to pretend that everything is normal... *twitch*
I'm acutely aware of my desk bouncing around like crazy as I type. I know it does this but not this much normally. Maybe I'm pressing the keyboard too hard but it doesn't feel like it. At least I'm not tripping as hard now.
At work this morning I was coughing a little so I went to the chemist and bought some cough medicine (Robitussin DM for future reference). Outlander and I kind of drank too much. The bottle said to take 10ml every 6 hours and I think we may have had about 30ml in 10 minutes. It wasn't intentional, we just didn't have a measuring glass...
Anyway, about 1/2 an hour after that we started feeling funny, and made the comment that the stuff tasted kind of like rum when we drank it - whereupon we immediately began feeling warm. And tingly. All over.
Perhaps we should have twigged upon this as a good sign that we'd had too much and go and drink about 3 litres of water or something, but oh no - for we are smart.
So instead we sat around in front of our manager tripping out at our workstations and I attempted to write MySQL for about 15 minutes, and accomplished not a workable line, I'm proud to say.
Eventually we managed to mention somehow that we were going out for lunch and got out of the building. We stumbled for what seemed like hours and kilometres down the road... in the burning sun. It took us ages to get across the road even with the aid of the pedestrian crossing button. We were walking downhill on a road which had parked cars on the right hand side, and every time I turned around I thought they were moving and jumped back onto the footpath, which usually had a car pulling out of a driveway which meant that I nearly got myself run over about 3 times. Incredible that I'm still here, really.
We eventually managed to find our way into the car park of another building, and discovered a large staircase which seemed to ascend virtually to infinity, so we rode up it... we went out of the building again and found the subway, which appeared to have lights coming out of it, but which were really only neon.
When we went inside, however, is when things became bizarre!
We almost hurt ourselves trying to open the door, and when we did get inside we were trying to find the TV which was making us think that the wall was talking. Eventually we decided to ignore it and order. We attempted to order gibberish for a little bit, realised we weren't making sense, then I fell over. With the hilarity of that, we both cracked up and were laughing so hard that we had to sit down. We couldn't stop to save ourselves and eventually I really needed to pee, so we got up again and made a hasty exit, howling with laughter, and hurting ourselves on the door on the way out. :)
We made our way back to the infinite escalator and I asked a lady working at a cafe where the toilets were, I couldn't work out why she looked at me strangely until I realised that I had tears from laughing pouring down my face.
We found the toilets. They were in the strange place. There was a compactor near them and a the face of a giant kitten in a window of what looked to be a small building (which was in an underground car park, mind). We decided to ignore that also.
I used the facilities and found a miniature human in the toilets. I spoke to the miniature human, which spoke back quite nicely - but then I decided to beat another hasty retreat because the parental unit of the miniature human was in a cubicle, and had heard me calling her offspring a 'miniature human'. So when I came out I was howling with laughter again.
We attempted to run across the car park. This again almost got us killed.
Without incident (amazingly), we managed to make it back to the Subway. We giggled for awhile and then managed to order this time in a way that could be understood by non-chemically enhanced humanoids. We only laughed a few times while trying to pay.
We giggled our way through some subway sandwiches which tasted good. I only had to argue with mine a little before it would let me eat it. So everyone was undoubtedly happy. After we had eaten, we consulted a timepiece and found that only 25 minutes had elapsed since we left the office. We thought it had been at least an hour, so were quite pleased.
Wandering out we encountered a light shop, which turned out to be a veritable fairyland of lights hanging from the ceiling and everything looking really cool. Needless to say the attendant almost pounced upon us because we looked like we were going to break something. She managed to restrain me to only breaking one light. It wasn't very expensive (I hope). After this we walked into Cash Converters, and again had attendants following us around. We were asked how we were going about 50 times in 5 minutes. So I asked them a question about how much I would get for this phone on the steps of my house, and even though we were wigged out of our brains still, we knew it was a bad price. We were about to buy a whole heap of stuff there - but then thought that possibly buying things whilst we were tripping would be a bad idea, lest we were to buy something silly and/or useless.
Anyway, we walked out of there and for some reason a time-dilation effect had meant that we'd spent 1/2 an hour looking in 2 shops! So we had to start walking back...
This wasn't so bad, except for the encounter at the cheesecake shop. I almost bought some cheesecake, but after a verbal argument (yes, verbalised) between my tongue and my stomache (my tongue was saying it would taste good and my stomache was saying that it was already hurting and that I wouldn't be tasting it for the 6 hours following its consumption). My stomache won that argument hands down, especially since I already had a tummy ache for some reason. Anyway!
Walking back uphill was weird. We weren't as crazily looped, but the world kept going hot and cold, and I almost had to stop to play with a trail of ants.
I guess for the rest of the day we're going to have to pretend that everything is normal... *twitch*
