Thanks...For The Memories...

Well, Will and I both ended up sick for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Will had been sick and even though he was feeling much better by Thanksgiving day, he was hacking all over the place and we didn't exactly feel like it would be appropriate for us to go over to our friends' home for Thanksgiving and cough and sneeze all over the turkey. We're considerate like that.

The cold hit me Thanksgiving night and by the next day, I was bundled up in bed with chills and a low-grade fever that was giving me slight hallucinations (more so than usual). My blue eyes were smeared red looking strung out like Whitney Houston before rehab (she's gone through rehab, right?), my big schnozz was raw looking like a cross between Jimmy Durante and Babs Streisand. And my mumbling during my hallucinations sounded like a cross between Kathleen Turner's scratchy sexy voice and Marlee Matlin. Yeah, the whole thing wasn't too pretty. Will probably wanted to just spray me down with Lysol and roll me outside.

My fever broke around 7pm, but the aches continued. Even my teeth and my wrists were sore. It probably didn't help that I was chewing on my wrists all day trying to get out of the restraints, but I'm not sure that really had much to do with it.

So, the rest of the weekend consisted of me trying to get as much rest as I could. I would say that "I HATE getting sick", but I have a feeling you already know that. It's so funny to me when people say that. "I just HATE getting sick!" Wouldn't you like to respond sometime and say, "REALLY??? 'CAUSE I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT!!! THERE'S NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD! I LOVE SNEEZING! AND COUGHING! AND HOW MY EARS SQUEAK WHEN I BLOW MY NOSE! AND THE CHILLS! AND THE SWEATS! AND THE ACHES! AND BARFING! AND SHITTING UNTIL I THINK MY EYEBALLS ARE GOING TO DROP OUT! I LOVE THE WHOLE BIT! I LOVE IT!!! YOU MUST BE CRAZY NOT TO LOVE IT!!"

Basically, we've looked like this:


for the last 5 days.

Anyway, we're on the mends. And in case you missed it. Last night on 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl, who I happen to like, but I'm not sure what the fuck has been going on with her hair for the last 10 years, actually...nothing, nothing has been going on with her hair for the last 10 years and I believe that this is starting to turn into a problem...So, in case you missed it. She was reporting on a new drug that could ease a painful memory incurred during a traumatic event.

I'm bothered by this. I know, big surprise that I'm bothered by something. But, it's not the people that would use it that have been through such a traumatic event that they can't function and go on living that I'm concerned about. I'm concerned about the pharmaceutical companies wanting to make bank on a yet another drug that there's a good possibility that far too many people will want, so that it's easier to cope with some difficult experiences. They're calling it The Memory Pill. And I'm just wondering, if we take away the hard stuff, where we really learn and grow and evolve into higher spiritually aware life forms, what's left? This?