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Alexandra Erin
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I thought I was getting better, but I appear to be getting worse.
One thing that hit me is that because I had Stuff To Do when I first got sick, I never actually did my normal respiratory illness protocol, which is basically to go on bedrest for a couple days.
So I may have drawn this out while not actually accomplishing anything much more than I would have if I'd just medicated and slept.
I'm upright right now because I am consuming fluid and calories, but after I finish this it's time for NyQuil and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Okay, going to proceed on my way to oblivion.
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"Gene Roddenberry said earth didn't have any religion in the time of Star Trek."

Yeah, he also said there was no more money or military, and yet *gestures at entire franchise*

Heck, the fact that humanity falsely prided itself on having outgrown nationalism was a RUNNING JOKE.
For all the smack-talk of "primitive superstition", Star Trek routinely defined humanity in terms of our willingness to do things for no clear benefit or cause other than a belief or a gut instinct.
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Anybody who thinks Gene Roddenberry was the first or last authority on what did or did not exist in the Star Trek universe knows just enough about Star Trek to get things *really* wrong.
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At 39 years old, I wrestle with even *having* a sexuality, as the feeling in the back of my brain is that my attention is unwanted, unclean.

(If you can't figure out what you should say to this, honor that impulse and say nothing. No apologies, no encouragement, no hugs please.)
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So, the good news is I got some pseudoephedrine. It wasn't so much that I felt super awesome enough to go to a pharmacy and sign out for it, but we had pre-existing tickets for Spider-man so I had to go out anyway.
The bad news is that when I have no built-up tolerance to pseudo, I can't sleep with it in my system. I love the little kick of Wakefulness it gives otherwise. But it completely tapes over my brain's off switch for like 16 hours.
So when I went to bed like six hours ago with a mildly recreational dose of dextromethorphan (doubled up NyQuil and plain Robitussin) and a heavy day's fatigue, I was too tired to move and having flights of fancy bordering on hallucinations, but not able to actually sleep.
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