Sunday, September 28, 2008










Tem42 said...

I often feel like that after running up a mountain.

I also felt like that and passed out briefly during the "drinking kills" video for the ECU health class (when they were showing the bloody corpses of drunk drives).

Were you running up a mountain? Did you see a bloody corpse? Was your heart or sympathetic nervous system taxed?

I recommend not sprinting around and dismembering people while you are using the chainsaw.

Of course, that's only assuming that there is a genetic link.

LKBM said...

I think part of the problem is that I hadn't run up any hills lately, or done anything else. I'd been sitting in front of the computer for days, and before that we were working in Angelina National Forest where much of the time was spent doing very little. (Hiking a few miles a day doesn't count as work.)

One person suggested maybe I hadn't had enough protein or sugar, and I can't really remember what I had for breakfast or lunch that day. usually for breakfast I have three eggs + beans on toast and maybe some tortillas (for the overflowing eggs+beans) followed by yoghurt + sugary cereal, so if I went a few days with a sudden drop-off, that could've been an issue.

Anyway, the following day I walked about twelve blocks and resumed something closer to my normal eating habits. I hope I don't die this week. (Sparse meals here in San Antonio. Next week I shall probably purchase a dozen eggs, which will keep me well-fed for the four mornings I'll be here.)

I dunno, though. Large amounts of butter...I can feel it in my eyes burning, sometimes. Maybe it's something resembling lactose intolerance. Pure (read: on cereal) milk gives me a stomach ache, I believe. (I didn't bother experimenting after it happened once.)