I drank all that I could, much more than I should // to find someone there

I'm getting sick. I just know I am. There is just no stopping it. I throw my body through enough walls eventually I'll stay down for the count. The late nights staring at screens and the "plenty of time to eat when I'm dead" attitude and the drinking ... yes even this new drinking is leaving me 'feeling pulled apart by horses'.

I drank so much for James 'Clarkston Jack' Schultz's birthday party. They just kept coming. I think I accidentally broke a glass there at the bar on purpose. I think we all gave him kisses though I don't recall totally. I'm pretty sure I threw up and went to sleep.

Then Isaacs wakes us all up and we go down to Cedar Point, 'America's Roller Coast', an amusement park on the coast of Lake Erie. That's punny. It was his girlfriend, Clarkston and myself. It was the most ridiculous hangover I've ever had, though I'm not a drinker... well yes I am. It was really funny, they were having this thing called 'Halloweekends', where... well I'll leave you to correctly assume the obvious. It was cold as the dickens, especially wearing only my tip top grey slacks/red longsleeve outfit (see: Chicago ensemble) and light Brazil jacket. I wish I'd have brought my camera, especially at night where they had all the fog machines out and blowing over the waters and lights shimmering off of it, it was chilling (though at least I did have my camera phone to take this picture of a cone, which I have decided will be the logo for a band that I start as soon as I figure out how to play a single instrument). I love those pictures you look at when you get off the coaster, they are worth many a giggle. And Clarkston and I raced Isaacs and his girlfriend Ashley side by side on the front cars on my favourite roller coaster the Gemini, hurling shouts at one another in the frozen night.

Isaacs was so adamant, almost subtly demanding, that we go through these Haunted Trails where people in costume ran around banging pots and pans around like madcaps. I didn't understand at all why he wanted to wait almost 2 hours for something like this, until when we were going through it I noticed how his girlfriend almost schoolgirl-ishly clung to him and playfully shrieked in fright throughout.... it was so wonderful. I wish...

Wow this sickness stuff is coming on quick. I've always been of the sorts that you could combat sickness simply with the mind. Like totally will yourself against getting sick (among other things) but then again do you ever go through those phases where you almost kinda want to be sick? Or maybe just feel like you are due almost, like 'my turn'? Sort of like with my shoulder, since I tore my rotator cuff way back I sometimes decide that a slight shoulder ache is some sort of arthritic condition from that old injury, which then it suddenly makes it hurt worse. Speaking of shoulder aches.....


(cough cough)