Jump Start

I'm starving. And my head feels confused between having a headache and falling asleep. Maybe the effects of Mefenamic Acid I took yesterday for the intolerable migraine. I usually have a pretty good pain tolerance for these kind of things but yesterday was a bummer. The memory of yesterday seems blurry, from the banging of my head with my fist to drinking the meds to diving for the toilet bowl to throw up to dropping dead to bed. I'm sure I'm awake in between the milestones. The next thing I know, I'm waking up and it's still dark outside. 05:00 says the clock, and I gave in to the call of the bed again. 05:25 I ran a quick draft of what I'm going to do today and I quickly got up. My hands and knees are still adrift in dreamland and it seems I have to drag them to do some basic things I need to go to work.

I get off the bus to find the sea of people I usually see upon boarding the train. It's this tremendous feeling of belonging to a sadistic group that nearly brought me fainting right then and there. But I managed to stay conscious. Thanks to my loving Ipod. The credit card's worth paying for you. Anyway, I managed to wipe off three or four soles by my own shoe just by going up the stairs. And alas, as if my shoes aren't enough, the knee part of my khaki pants joined in the wiping and I managed to get a drop of dirt. Perfect. Just perfect.

I badly want to scream my lungs out "STOOOOP! World. Just stop." But I just thought how they spent their weekend in their own little pathetic 9 square meter bungalows and just watching tv and my 3-day beach bumming experience with my best buddies in a remote cove in Anawangin, Zambales and I just know I'll live with the dirty shoes and pants. I was smiling as I put my MRT card in the slot and moved swiftly forward and into the platform.

jump´start`
v. t. 1. To start (the engine of a motor vehicle) using a temporary connection to supply electrical power from another vehicle or another source of current; - an emergency procedure used when a vehicle's own battery has insufficient power to start the vehicle normally.
2. To provide a speedy start to (an activity) using the assistance of some external impetus; to re-energize (an activity proceeding sluggishly); - accomplished by application of a stimulus not normally used in the activity.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.