So it’s about 12:45 and I’m getting ready for bed. I had just got done completing a to-do list because I got a recent surge of motivation after reading one of the threads here on the board. I was preparing to set a Ritalin next to my night stand for the morning when by accident I actually swallowed the pill instead. I tried chugging about 3 glasses of water and forcing myself to vomit it out but no luck. I vomited a good deal but no sign of a pill. I imagine they dissolve pretty quickly in the stomach.
Luckily I have no serious obligations to attend too but I was really hoping to get some work done. Now, I’ll probably be spending about the next 3 hours or maybe even the whole night wide awake. If I didn’t laugh, I’d cry. Fuck!
If I did that (back when I used to take stimulants), I’d probably count on my body being fairly tolerant of them, then take 3 Benedryls, lay down and hope I fall asleep before the Ritalin kicks in.
I’m confused. You just took a stimulant, so you’re going to be up anyway, and you just finished a to-do list. Seems like a good time to start checking off items on the list.
Hmmmm, is this what “finished a to-do list” means? When I read that panaccione had “just got done completing a to-do list” I read it as having just got done completing the tasks on the list. I didn’t think it meant having completed making the list.
I’m not claiming to be correct, it’s just that your opposite reading surprised me.
The was a period of my life not long ago when I’d sleep over at someone’s house, meaning that I’d have to put some pills in a pill box. I was sometimes afraid that I’d have trouble sleeping, so I brought a sleeping pill with me. The thing is, they look exactly like my blood pressure medication, which I’d just started taking.
Accidentally taking the sleeping pill instead while getting ready for work would have been a Bad Thing. Luckily it never happened.
I actually finished making the to-do list and was looking forward to completing it today. Instead, I was up until about 4:30 and now at 1:30 I am finally waking up.
Last night sucked. At around 3 I took two Tylenol PMs. It was like I became extremely tired but at the same time could not sleep due to the racing thoughts from the Ritalin.
There’s a line in Feynman’s autobiography about this - after drinking several Cokes with aspirin to prove a point, he dryly adds, “I stayed up all night and did a lot of work on the Riemann-Zeta function.”