Refracted Neurons

Yes, I know, "again," "constantly!" Really this is the first time I've been this sick in over a year.  Except for the weird lack of hunger and the ache in my hips, I'm almost 100% certain it's just allergies.  I couldn't sleep last night because my sinuses hurt so bad.  So I did what any reasonable woman in the same situation would do: I got up and took a bath . . . twice.  I know that sounds strange, but it relieves the sinus pain and any other aches as well as making me sleepy. I think I'm going to have to drop out of choir.  Not only will I probably not be able to sing, but I've been too busy to learn all the music.  I know some of it and it's fun to be one of two soprannos with a high C, but I get paid to work, not sing (thank God, too-I get terrible stage fright). Work has been very, very needy lately.  Last weekend I worked a grave shift, prior week, two grave shifts and there is still a remote chance I will get called in toni...

Ever since cellphones have become mainstream, I have always heard stories about people dropping their cellphones in the toilet.  I always ask, "Why did you have your cellphone in the bathroom?  Do you talk on the phone while using the toilet?"  The answer I have always recieved has been, "No, don't be silly.  I only listen to my messages in the bathroom.  It's multi-tasking." This past weekend a friend of mine broke the code of silence and told me that she talks on the cellphone while peeing.  While she was telling me this, her phone was turning itself on and taking pictures of random things because (guess what) it had been dropped in the toilet. While this was on my mind yesterday, I went to a restaurant to celebrate a friend's birthday.  When I went to the bathroom, I could hear the lady in the next stall talking loudly.  Either she was talking on the phone, or she was the most boring schizophrenic I have ever met. At any rate, I could see u...