fox@fury
I'm not thirsty
Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002
I have a few personal oddities, brought to either life or light by the fast-paced, time-shifting, nearly non-linear world I live in.

One (which I honestly have no idea what is responsible for) is an intermitent lack of my sense of thirst. For days, weeks, or even months at a time, I simply won't get thirsty. Not to say that I don't need water; anything but! But all too often I'll go a few days having almost nothing to drink and only realize it when I get a splitting headache, for which my standard elixer has been two excedrin chased with a soda (Coke, Pepsi, something with caffeine) and sometimes some chocolate. The irony of a diuretic easing the pains of dehydration is oh-so-funny at times like that. Oh yeah, and of course I also chug a liter or two of water, but that takes longer to absorb, so that when the meds wear off at least I'm moistened; the one-two punch of treating the symptom and the cause (yet the disease, to follow the metaphor) remains a mystery, as I have no clue what causes me to not be thirsty. The ultimate in procrastination?

At any rate, I was going to talk about my sense of time, and just mention the thirst thing as another example to back up the first sentence claiming that I had more than one oddity. Like I only have two... Oddities for future elaboration include the thumb trick, the amazing on-cue ear dimples, my internal atomic clock, and others I've already mentioned.

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