Day 6

This day was a massive embarrassment. Epic fail isn't good enough.

Quiz time.

What do you get when you slowly get dehydrated over the course of the day and don't realize it, and move from a completely sedentary position to a very active position?

A headache.

What I'm talking about is this. I spent most of the day sitting at my computer, which is odd for me. I'm not really sure why I didn't get up and ride my bike. My guess is that I wasn't drinking enough water and that made me lethargic.

So, at the end of the day, I decide to do the project. I start off with the jumps.

A completely related fact: When you are hungover, a few things happen. One, your body loses a lot of minerals, vitamins, electrolytes (what plants crave. sorry, couldn't resist), and a few enzymes. The other thing that happens is that happens is that your brain literally shrinks in size, which causes the headache. This happens via dehydration.

So, again, what happens when you jump up and down with a dehydrated, shrunken brain? You get a headache.

I did two sets with my shoes on (outside on the grass) and thought that the pain might have been caused by how harsh my feet were coming down on the ground. When I took them off, and still felt pain after the third set, I realized that maybe it was something else.

I'm so smart sometimes, you know?

Why is this embarrassing? Because it prevented me from doing the rest of the exercise. It kills me even typing this now. If I couldn't do the exercises because they were too much, because I was too worked out, I would have been able to live with that. I still would have been incredibly disappointed, but I could bear it. This was because of my own stupidity. And maybe if I had done the exercise early I could have finished if I had time to do so later, but no. This was pretty much headache, rest, then sleep.

As I write this now, Sunday morning, I feel fine. Still slightly dehydrated from yesterday, but much better. Also, If you're wondering, I'm probably an odd case - meaning that chances are I dehydrate faster than most people, but I doubt that. That's just what a doctor told me, but it turned out he was an complete idiot.

The moral of the story? Stay hydrated. Or as the counselors at my old summer camp used to say, "hydrate or die". Also, don't go from completely sedentary to completely active like I did. At least walk up and down your street or something.


Also, for the uninitiated who didn't get my joke:


Oh, I almost forgot, how the hell do you "follow" people? I couldn't find a button for it or anything.