Deanna ([personal profile] dr4b) wrote2002-01-28 03:46 pm

How I know I'm becoming senile

This is happening way too often to me lately, where I have these reverse-Laura days.



So this is bizarre.

What happens is that at Time A, I really have to pee. And then sometime later, at Time B, I don't have to pee anymore. But at Time B, I honestly can't remember if I actually went to the bathroom, or if magically I just don't have to pee anymore, or something.

This is really beginning to confuse the heck out of me sometimes. Especially like, during that DDR tournament this weekend, since I was drinking so much water to keep my throat from hurting and to help me stop coughing, I swear I kept having to pee. Infact, I ran out to pee before the Trick competition started. Then I also went to pee after the first round of the Trick competition. I think I might have gone after the round was over as well, I honestly can't remember. The funny thing is, I remember standing there in the arcade thinking "I have to pee. Wait, didn't I just go pee? What's up with that? Did I maybe go to the bathroom and just sit there and not pee? WTF?"

This afternoon I had to pee, but we were going to campus to grab lunch, so I didn't think about it. Then I drank a Diet Coke with lunch, and sat at my computer doing stuff for a while. Then we had a meeting at 2, and I had to pee, but I also had to get to the meeting, so I am pretty sure I just went to the meeting. But after the meeting I didn't have to pee any more. Now I'm drinking some more Diet Coke (caffeine-free this time, I'm being good) and I just realized I had to pee, so I peed. But man, am I confused.

[identity profile] ssaiscps.livejournal.com 2002-01-28 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
You could carry some sort of object with two states (call them A and B), say a pen where you can click it in and out. When you have to go to the bathroom, ensure that it is in state B. when you go to use the bathroom, return it to state A. Then at any point you can figure out if you suddenly stopped having to go to the bathroom by comparing your internal "having to go to the bathroom state" with the state of the pen.

People may look at you funny for clicking a pen randomly, and then clicking it again whenever you go to the bathroom, but don't pay them any attention. You might want to try this, to at least figure out what is happening.