Stupid Hurts

I have always had [tag]insomnia[/tag]. You can work it to your advantage and I have learned to work with it over the years. When you learn to sleep only when your body allows you, and fight through that plastic wrapped feeling you develop after being awake for a few days. You can get a lot more done. Now I was reading the side effects of the medicine I started taking last week [tag]Zonegran[/tag]. It causes insomnia and drowsiness in most people, what a combination.

Sunday when I woke up midday and stretched I decided to lie there for a bit. I felt good, that usually doesn’t happen when I first wake up. So I thought about my situation for a little as I relaxed. Then something struck me as odd. I realized I wasn’t at home, I was lying on the side of the road in heap with my [tag]bicycle[/tag]. Unfortunately I didn’t know how long I had been there. That meant I had another seizure, I had crashed, and my memory was screwed up again, but I did get a good nap, there is always a bright side.

My uncle chose fairly late in the day to tell me he didn’t have anything for me to do so I essentially had a free day for a change. I believe this ruins my weekend plans. But I really shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. I had felt cooped up lately and wanted to get out, several people had done little for my patience, and this would be my first time to get out and actually ride my bike hard in several weeks. So I made it a point to try and enjoy myself.
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The highlights included the fact I now have a new useless skill. I got called out over the fact I had never ever bother learning how to do “leg over the bar” skids. Which is odd, because I had taught one of the people at the shop I hang out at how to do them. My usual excuse was the fact I ride with bullhorns on my bike, but that wasn’t enough to get me by tonight. So I finally got up and pulled out a few. After learning you are pretty much guaranteed to get your pants leg caught between the bars and your hands if you are wearing wide leg jeans. I revised my strategy and got pretty decent at them fairly quickly. Only later on to hear,“isn’t that hard with bullhorns?” I also proved the fact I can sorta ride in a backwards circle. I just don’t because it is a bicycle and it goes forward.
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I also got to watch a bunch of what I am hoping were drunk cyclist play “Lean on me” in a studio. If they were not drunk, they may have been the back up band. But they are good cyclist, and they did call to check up me while I was in the hospital. I left after getting a phone call from Ben,“ we are in the fountain in Woodruff park!” There is a reason I hang out with him.

And on my way home after splitting up with everyone, I fell down a flight stairs I didn’t see while riding my bicycle.The killing part is that everyone else was drinking and I was sober. The take off wasn’t so bad, but the landing sorta screwed my ankle up.

It has been a odd week. I think I did something to piss god off. In the past week I : stepped on my cellphone and broke the screen, my ibook burned out, my camera no longer works, and Wal-mart was sold out of the bicycle I want. Hmmmm.

But I did have one of the most awesome days at work yesterday, I saw an angry midget pitch a fit in someones car, witnessed a Peta protest of Kentucky fried chicken, (they were calling it Kentucky fried cruelty. And when I asked a guy what he did for a living I got the best answer ever:

me:so what do you do
him:I’m an X-man,
me: no shit
him: yeah I play Wolverine over at universal.
me……WOOOOOOWW!

yup, the high point of my week, I met wolverine. and no camera to take pics of any of this stuff.