Reading harold_maude's journal

This is the third day of an on going battle with a flu bug, and my head feels like it's got cotton and something else sloshing around in there.

I feel like I've been on a very long drunk, even though I haven't been drinking. Sleep is erratic because I keep dreaming I'm late and when I look at the clock I realize that I can sleep somemore.

When I woke up this morning my ear and part of my face were numb like I'd been given a shot of novacane, and I was very peaceful. My eyes were swollen and glassy and I reconized that I was running a fever.
I can't seem to shake it. I have been taking stuff to break it, but this one is stuborn.

I think there are mutated bugs in the air.

Anyway, as the view of myself in the mirror presented it's self and I stood there looking at what a strange creature I looked like I wondered what it would be like to have the features of your face mutate to what you were feeling like in side.

If you were depressed would you become different shades of blue depending on how depressed you were?
Or happy, what would happy look like as it changed a person's face?

Then I started thinking about how plugged up my ears were and how funny it would look if people who never really listened to anyone but themselves had corks in their ears.
It would be a sure way to tell if you really wanted to talk to someone or not.

And then my thoughts started going really weird. I started thinking about inlays on instruments and how cool it would be if you could build a box that depending on what inlay you put on the surface would determine the music that came out.

Then my thoughts went to how dark it was outside and I wondered if the sun was going to come out or if it was going to be weird out there today.

I checked my face again, and yep it was still numb.
I wasn't worried about it. Which is a little strange considering that it was numb.
I couldn't understand why I was so calm. Then it hit me. I'm too sick to be worried.
I don't have the energy to worry when I'm sick so it's ok.
I've had this floaty feeling all day and so it's ok.
I've been drinking lots and lots of water and I hope that helps to flush this out of my system.

I wonder what a person who was drinking a martini would do if the olives started screaming to be let out of the glass all of a sudden.

Or if when you went to put on socks they refused because it was so cramped and dark in your shoes.
I wonder if peoples feet get depressed durring the winter because they have to be in the dark all the time.
And the only time they get out is to either when the rest of the body is in the shower or tub or when they get stripped for bed unless a person wears socks to bed, then they only time they see daylight is when they go in the shower.

I wonder about alot of things. Usually from a strange perspective, although I'm very sure there are other people out there who look at things and wonder about things that are from a strange perspective as well.

I would love to be in a room full of people who disgussed strange perspectives and followed things to weird conclusions.
Nothing would be solved, but it would be fun.

Seems I've gone on a bit. so I'm going to stop for the moment and go blow my nose. Maybe my ears will unplug for a while.
That would be nice.

It only looks that way because your standing on your head.