Rampant Paranoia


Not getting enough sleep is a bad thing. (Note to self: Never play Civ II ever again.) It's a very bad thing when you're of an analytical sort of mind, because while you lack energy and just sort of sit there with your mental wheels spinning in the metaphorical mud, those mental wheels are, nonetheless, spinning away.

Is it paranoia, one wonders, to realize just how many things could possibly go wrong. To slowly tick down that wonderfully varied list of horrific flaws in the already-soiled tapestry of existance could bring about one's inevitable downfall? Not mere, substanceless babbling, but the growing awareness of risks hanging about like a Damoclean blade, an image piercing briefly through the civilized haze that guards the senses against such crushing thoughts.

What madness, this that wreathes the mind in half-spun threats and dark dreams, murmurings of doom and failure? What ceaseless churning of facts half-true, half feverish concoction, leads to dark conspiracies constructed whole from the cloth of nightmares? What icy fingers of long-buried fear canst call forth the nameless dread of the menacing light of exposing truth?

Fortunately, such adjective-laden problems are easily cured with the application of caffeine.

Mmm. Coffee. Is there anything it can't do?


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