Deep Sleep Hiccups

It's 6:30 in the morning and my phone alarm sounds off. No matter how much you like Beethoven, he sounds terribly upsetting when the sun hasn't risen yet. I jumped out of bed to shut the noise off so as not to disturb my sleeping roommate and as I stood I realized my forthcoming catastrophe. My right leg was dead asleep. So much asleep that there was no way it was going to support me. I crashed into the ground. It was more of a high five between my face and the ground than a good baseball slide fall. Bummer.

What was interesting was that my leg stayed asleep for the next five or so minutes. It was so much asleep that if my sleeping leg touched my non-sleeping leg it felt like something other than my body was touching it. Weird.

I was reminded of a little girl I saw on the Today Show as I poked at my dead leg. She had a rare disorder where she hiccuped constantly. It was funny to watch at first and than you realized that this girl was in pain. Her throat was extraordinarily raw from all that hiccuping and the problem was disrupting all aspects of her life. No fun at all.

Occasionally in science classes you hear teachers talk about how viruses and bacteria can mutate to become resilient against some medicine or such. What if a virus was developed that combined the hiccuping disaster plus the ole sleeping leg? The doctors would have a hell of a hard time naming it. Personally I'd call it the "Deep Sleep Hiccups" because 'Deep' rhymes with 'Sleep' and you have to have the word hiccup in there, but I'm sure the medical community would find something a bit more professional to call this upcoming epidemic.

In other news: I got accepted into PLNU. I recently bought a five dollar hot and ready from Little Ceasers and I'm on the lookout for a free upright wall piano. Godspeed.