In Any Place You’ll Allow

I have quotes come up on my iGoogle page. I like quotes. This one from today is pretty funny:

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of. – Burt Bacharach

I was trying to figure out why I’ve been so tired lately and so I asked Dr. Google for some advice on how to counteract whatever it is that might be afflicting me (bad diet, dehydration, etc). Someone had posted a whole essay thing about dehydration and how it leads to fatigue, blah blah blah. Her solution (or one of them) was to drink two glasses of water first thing in the morning. I thought it sounded like BS, but figured I’d try it out because what did I have to lose? If nothing else, I’d start off my day by getting enough water at least.

So all week I’ve had a 12 oz (10 oz?) glass next to my bathroom sink to remind me to drink two glasses right away. I’ve done it either before or after my shower each morning. And honestly, there’s a huge difference. I haven’t felt tired all week except for those few minutes from when I turn off my alarm to when I stumble to the bathroom. Today for instance, I was SUPER tired and even though all week the two-glasses-of-water-in-the-morning trick was working, I thought for sure it was not going to work at all considering how tired I was. But it did. I don’t know if it’s the water, or some psychological Pavlovian placebo effect. I don’t care too much because it works and that’s what

The only downside at the moment is that toward the end of the second glass, I feel like I could probably vomit if I put any effort into it. I might want to try drinking them more slowly instead of guzzling them both down so quickly, but the momentary gag reflex is easy enough to quiet. I think it’s just a lot of fluid in the morning that my body isn’t used to. Maybe it’ll go away after awhile when my body gets more used to that.

It’s kind of freaky how the two-glasses-of-water-in-the-morning trick works. I’d say it’s better than coffee, but I don’t drink coffee so I can’t compare it. I’ll definitely continue with it, though.

The X-Files movie comes out tonight and as I am a total geek, I can’t wait to go see it. I’m kind of bummed that I don’t have all 9 seasons on DVD so I wasn’t able to go through and have a X-Files marathon the past few weeks, but oh well. If it’s a good movie, the background will be covered decently enough that a marathon of all 9 seasons won’t be necessary. But we’ll see how it plays out.

Also, Canada on Tuesday! Woot!