Monday, January 02, 2006
2006
Oh what a shitty, shitty new year.
Let me start off with a quick roundup of the events of the last few days:
- 27th December, little brother totals the car, escapes unhurt.
- 29th December, little brother takes two sleeping pills as a cure for insomnia and does not tell anyone. Everyone assumes he's had a fight with his girlfriend and is consequently depressed.
- 31st December, Early morning Internet and TV connection both die and WorldCall says they can't get someone to fix it till monday. Brilliant.
- 31st December, (late night) little brother is still in zombie mode, everyone starts going bananas and forbids him from leaving the house in this state.
- 1st Jan, (1 am) People celebrating New Year's on main Seaview go bananas as well and leap over the walls towards the residential area in a torrent of mob-frenzy. They are subsequently beaten back with sticks. I am saddened to think this is what god's (apparently) greatest creation is reduced to.
- 1st Jan, (2 am) little brother is given the keys to drive because I insist it will do him good to get some fresh air and get back his driving confidence. Little brother has not returned from a simple errand for an hour and everyone is imagining the worse and snapping at me for letting him go out.
1st Jan, late night, little brother is taken to hospital and has an IV drip pumped into him to get the effect of the sleeping pills out of his system after consulting a doctor about his constant drowsiness and lack of coherence. He is admitted to the ICU and pumped up with something or the other. He returns two hours later lookig much better and gaining some coherence and stringing sentences together.
2nd Jan, Classes commence.
So I have had a very stressful and all-round bad start to the new year. Morbid and entirely unappropriate humor keeps me sane, but remarks like "We should get season tickets for the ICU in this hospital, maybe they'll give us a discount" are apparently not appreciated by family. Anyhow, here's wishing all of you the most uninteresting year you have ever had, and believe me, you better appreciate it when you do get a highly uneventful year.
Misha
at Monday, January 02, 2006
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