I love NyQuil, man. Because NyQuil has never changed, man. It's never changed. All the other medicines are doing that inner-child thing. "we know that there's a small child inside of you, so now we have grape and cherry and orange flavor." Not NyQuil! They still have the original green death fucking flavor! You know why!? Because it doesn't matter what it tastes like! It's so strong you go, "*wheeze* Hey this stuff really tastes like.." Bang! Yer in the coma already! "What happened?" "He said tastes like and he went right into the coma, it was unbelievable!" We have reached the point where the over the counter drugs are actually stronger than anything you can buy on the street. It says on the back of the NyQuil box, on the back of the box it says, "May cause drowsiness." It should say, "Don't make any fucking plans! Kiss your family and friends goodbye. Say hello to Klaus!" NyQuil, NyQuil, NyQuil, we love you! You giant fucking Q!

-- Dennis Leary, Drugs

I've been having trouble sleeping recently, as you probably know. My idea - and this is actually a pretty good idea and is mostly working - was to take a sleep aid for about five nights running and hope that I can get myself back on track. Or at least be a little less tired for a while.

Today is day three. You don't really want to do that sort of thing for more than a week - sleep aids can become addictive and ... you know when I was recovering from my car accident a woman was talking to the doctor and I overheard. Her last doctor had her on a script for Darvaset, 2 a day, for the last year or so. She'd been taking them both before bed and now her script was run out and she couldn't sleep. I'd say so, lady!

I'm not actually taking NyQuil. I'm taking Excedruin PM, two tabs about a half an hour before I'm ready to go to bed. And I have been getting more sleep recently. Although my dreams have been pretty weird.

I think it might be the fault of the other flavor combinations I deal with at bed time. Two inhaled scripts - dust and lemon-flavored dust. One pill that always turns sideways in my throat (no, I can't cut it in half, the bottle SPECIFICALLY says not to.) and one pill that has a weird metallicy aftertaste (this would be my iron-supplement.) After that, I brush my teeth - my new toothpaste is orange-flavored. I think this is a decided improvement over mint. I also have citrus Lysterine.

But last night... last night I was having some other difficulties. Who, exactly, had the bright idea of making something CHERRY MINT? CHERRY. MINT. YUCK!

Anyway... with those flavors all combined, no wonder I dreamed about being back at college where my roommates were Megan D., Carrie G., and Tim M?

UG.

And double ug.