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I think I'm going fucking insane

 
 
fuckbaked
05:40 / 10.07.05
Fuck dude, I'm afraid to even think what I want to say because a coworker is still here, and I think he can hear what I'm thinking. Yeah, you, dude. If you can hear what I'm thinking right now, stop listening. Eeeeek. So I didn't sleep for a few days, and then I slept thursday night, and I haven't slept since then. Usually I can handle not sleeping pretty well. Um, so I was doing ok, and then pretty soon after I left for work I started feeling really faded and I started seeing things. Lots of things. I saw an enormous blue dumpster in the middle of the road, and I drove right up to it, and then it disappeared. And I saw a dude sitting by the side of the side of the road on a folding lawnchair, and then as I was passing by him I realized he was a sign. And I saw a car moving really slowly in the middle of the street with it's headlights pointed right at me, and it disappeared of course. And I saw a dude on a bike that wasn't really there. And there were bushes everywhere. At first I was slowing down and trying to go around them, but they always disappeared off the road, so by the time I got here I was just cruising through bushes, because I knew they were fake. I would have been fucked if someone had actually pulled a bush out of the ground and stuck it in the road, because I would have driven right over it. And I saw a weird, huge banner in the road twice. It was sort of transparent, and I drove over it before I could read it. And I saw a coyote. And I saw a dude in a trenchcoat as I was pulling into work, and I slowed down right next to him to see who he was, but then he disappeared. Are hallucinations supposed to just hang out there for 5 or 10 seconds and then disappear? What’s up with this? Oh yeah, and I’m shaking pretty badly.

And I’m not on any drugs, I swear. I’m going to be here for 7.5 hours longer. I was thinking of telling a supervisor that I need to go home because I’m fucking hallucinating, but I think that would be a bad idea. Aside from the shaking, I think I’m acting pretty normal. Fuck, I hope I am. I seem to have stopped hallucinating right now, but that happened for 10 minutes or so on the drive here, and then it started up again, and since I’m not going to sleep for a while, I sort of think they’ll come back. Um...yeah, so I guess this really doesn’t belong here, but really I can’t tell other people what’s going on. Fuck, was that a bat? I know it wasn’t a real bat... this is going to be a long fucking night.
 
 
Triplets
05:54 / 10.07.05
Assuming you're not taking the piss... tell your boss you have a migraine and get yourself home in a TAXI, ffs.
 
 
fuckbaked
07:02 / 10.07.05
‘Sup Triplets.

Nope, not taking the piss. My boss left, and now I'm pretty much alone (there are other people, but they're asleep. hopefully they'll stay that way). I don't even feel tired anymore, and I think I can chill here for the rest of my shift. I don't know why I didn't think of the "headache" excuse. It's my stock excuse for whenever I don't want to tell people what's really wrong (which isn't all that often, but ya know, some things are better off not being said). And I can't take a taxi home. I can't afford it. I live really far away from work. Dude, you don't know how long and strange that drive here was. But I'm feeling a lot more like myself than when I first got here. I'm not shaking anymore, and I'm not seeing much stuff that isn't supposed to be there. I thought I wasn’t seeing anything strange, but then I just went outside to smoke a cigarette, and I looked up at the sky, which is fucking awesome because from work I can see a gazillion stars, and I started looking at one of the stars, and then it got a purple area around it and it started moving across the sky in slow, jerky movements, like a bug that doesn’t know where it’s going. I don’t know what type of bug, but you know what I’m talking about. I thought maybe it wasn’t a star, really, so I picked another star randomly to look at, and right away it got the purple area around it and started moving in jerky movements across the sky. That was pretty cool, actually. As long as I don’t start seeing, ya know, zombies or something, I’m chill.

And, ya know, if I called a supervisor and told him that I have to go home, he'd probably be the one who would have to stay up until 7am. I don't want to do that to him. I'm just gonna kick it here and try to remember to do whatever it was people asked me to do tonight (it's pretty much the same as every night that I work, so I'll figure it out). Oh and when I get off from work in the morning, I’m not going to drive home. Well, I guess if I feel really normal I might drive home, but I kinda doubt that. So I’m going to park a few blocks away where they can’t see me and sleep in my car. That can only last for a few hours, until it’s so warm in the car that I wake up with a sort throat, covered in sweat. Yeah, I know, it’s gross. I sleep in my car during the day all the time. Shady spots are no longer shady when I wake up. It’s summer and I live in California. I want to fall asleep and stay that way for a whole day. I’ve done that before, and it’s sweet.

(damn it, why am I so long winded? someone tell me to STFU before I incriminate myself somehow).

What does ffs mean?
 
 
bio k9
07:19 / 10.07.05
Shut the fuck up. For fuck sake.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:56 / 10.07.05
Sleep in your car or get a cab. Either way, driving home would be BAD.
 
 
fuckbaked
08:39 / 10.07.05
Yeah, urg...I just fell asleep for a short period of time, and then I woke up, and one of the kids was right there, and he asked me what was up, and I started babbling about something that doesn't even make sense to me. WTF? So much for my whole "act normal and no one will notice" scheme. And ya know, I'd never actually really fallen asleep here before.

Yeah....STFU fuckbaked.
 
 
Benny the Ball
09:03 / 10.07.05
Have a nice cup of camomile tea when you get home.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:28 / 10.07.05
Wow. I wonder if our sleep-deprived friend made it home in one piece?
 
 
uncle retrospective
22:38 / 10.07.05
No really, any know if FB made it home?
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
22:43 / 10.07.05
I bet FB's asleep and dreaming about men in folding lawnchairs and Doctor Who blue dumpsters. Anyone got ze's number? Although, of course, if ze's anything like me when I'm asleep even someone banging on the door won't be wake him/her.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:27 / 10.07.05
Hir, dude. "Has anyone got hir number?"
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
23:32 / 10.07.05
Sorry. I'm new to this ze and hir business (which I like, btw). Can you tell?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:34 / 10.07.05
It takes a bit of getting used to. I think there used to be something in the Wiki...
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
23:38 / 10.07.05
There was. And some other good advice about lingo (etc) here on Barbelith. e.g I'm sure I read that putting a "%" on either side of a statement means you're being sarcastic. But when I checked again the other day I couldn't find the relevant pages.
 
 
Triplets
23:49 / 10.07.05


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ONLY NICE THINGS
23:56 / 10.07.05
Yeah, but if you _don't_ put % on either side of something, then it'sdeadpan, which is cooler.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
23:59 / 10.07.05
Haus, you're right. Plus: %this is really pleasing to the eye%.
 
 
fuckbaked
02:43 / 11.07.05
Hello. I slept in my car for a while. It wasn't all that sunny where I slept, and my shade lasted longer than it usually does, so I slept for more than 10 hours. Yay. I actually felt pretty normal by the time I left work, but I figured I should sleep. And now I feel really normal. Er, normal for me, that is. Heh heh.

Thanks everyone. Really, thanks a lot.
 
  
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