What Happened
Apparently a good place to check for orange color is in the palm of one's hand. We'll just see about that.
I was awoken again at about 8:00 am by work again. It is my "day off". Oh the joys of being on call! A short time later they called again. I managed to make it back into bed and fall asleep again. That lasted about 5 minutes before they called again, which required me to make several calls. I did not make it back to sleep again. It has been a number of days since I last got more than 6 hours of sleep. Ugh, I need to sleep so bad... In an eerie parallel to yesterday, Cingular's collection agency called me about an account that I closed a long time ago. Weird. Oh, I also visited all sorts of cool places today, resulting in a nice amount of dehydration. I could have sworn I was a Boy Scout at one time. Be prepared, or some such.
One of the people at Cingular said that they had a teacher once that ate a bunch of carrots and turned orange. Rock on! Of course, I now trust phone company people much less than I can actually throw them, so this certainly isn't conclusive.
Eating Schedule
So, I ate 3-4 carrots at about 10:00 am. I didn't eat again until 5:30 pm, when I bought a 2 pound bag of baby carrots and a 1.5 liter bottle of water. Aside from a few that were shared amongst friends, I managed to eat the entire bag and drink about 3 liters of water over the next three and a half hours. Strangely, this is not even close to the most carrots I have eaten in one sitting.
The brand of organic carrots I bought is "Bunny Luv". I have this sense that there is some sort of innuendo in there somewhere, but I'm just not going to think about it too hard.
The water is labeled "geothermal", what exactly is that supposed to mean for me? Am I going to start producing excess energy? Or maybe I will develop a slight sulphur smell? Oops, to late.
How I Felt
I'm hungry right now. Big friggin surprise. I felt okay after breakfast. I was intending to take some carrots with me as I drove around, but totally spaced it. By the time I actually got to a store I was feeling pretty light headed and rather dehydrated. Because I felt so dehydrated, I drank all of that water. I felt better than before, so maybe that is good. On reflection, I wonder if passing that much water would remove the extra vitamins from my system. I certainly hope not. Maybe it would help to keep myself dehydrated.
One strange side effect that I noticed is a heightened sense of smell. Much like the blind man that has super hearing, I can now smell barbeque from a mile away. It's a little unsettling. I hear that your body will crave wacky stuff if you are suffering from some sort of deficiency. The way I figure it, I either need more iron, or I need more meat. Is meat a deficiency? Do vegetarians ever go cannibalistic? I should ask my vegetarian roommate about any cover-ups being done.
Weight Measurement
I'm coming in at 242.8 lbs, post-vitamin. Good news. I was thinking that maybe I've just been really dehydrated lately, which is why I have been showing so much "weight loss" for a day. I really hope that eating somewhat regularly will help out.
Good grief. I just realized that I was wearing pants when I weighed myself. Having to pee, I got the chance to relieve myself and remove my pants at the same time. Now I'm 241.0 lbs. That can't be good.