EUREKA!!! I have it!!!

It's late, and I can't sleep. But tonight, I've been doing a lot of thinking...and I came to this really shocking conclusion about something. Well, not really shocking...but enlightening.

Ok, so a couple days ago, someone pointed out to me that I've recently become like a zombie. (You know who you are). That person noticed it, and so did several other people. I haven't been myself lately. I'm not the old Chase that everyone seemed to know and love. I didn't realize it was happening, but now that it's been brought to my attention, I have no choice but to think about it.

So I have been. I also thought about other changes that I have noticed...I have a much lower appetite, which is very unusual, because given the opportunity, I would normally eat a hippo. I haven't been as social as I had been before, and I really think people are starting to resent me for it.

But this is where the shocking part comes in: I think I know why this is all happening. It's not the people around me. It's my medication!!!

"Oh great, Chase is making excuses now...he's blaming his meds." I am, but hear me out. I remember my doctor telling me before I started taking these meds about his son, who also has ADHD. He was placed on too high a dose of Metadate, and he became...(here it comes)....A ZOMBIE WITH NO APPETITE!!! So I really think that's what's happening to me.

I looked up Concerta (the med I'm on now) on the Internet, and tried to find its side effects...and sure enough: Loss of Appetite (I have that), Sleep Problems (I get that only sometimes), Headaches (sometimes), Jitteriness (not so much), Stomachaches (nope), and...Social Withdrawl (bingo!!!)

So now I'm certain that it is the Concerta causing all this crap to happen. And the best part of this is that I would have never realized what was going on if this person hadn't pointed it out to me. I'm going to the doctor tomorrow, and I intend to tell him all this...so I think my days with Concerta are over.

So to the person that pointed out my recent changes....a million times, THANK YOU!!!!! I would have never realized something was wrong if it weren't for you. You have no idea how glad I am that you said something about it, and now that I have thought about it, and remembered what my doctor told me from Day 1, we can work towards correcting it. The old, vibrant-personality Chase is on his way back!!! I'll be sure to tell him it was you that helped bring him back :-D

Well this didn't last long.

Unless anyone else objects (which I doubt) I'm done here.

I know I haven't written in a long time. I've been pretty busy. So here's this to keep you amused during times I don't write:



So there, you can now see what music I've been listening to during my non-writing hiatuses.

Coming soon, a live webcam in my room with 24-hour feeds, so you can take your stalkerishness to a whole new level.

I know, I know, I haven't been writing. I temporarily forgot this site existed. My bad.

I must say, I'm doing pretty alright. I did a hellava lot better on my Systems Test than I originally thought I did!! I got a 70!! I thought for SURE I had failed it! So yeah, go me!

So yeah, I'm just sitting at work...it's quite boring, but I'll get over it. It gave me the opportunity to download all those songs I'd been meaning to! So now my library is up to nearly 600 songs!! That excites me.

So I'm gonna go out of town this Friday to see my parents. I will be back Sunday afternoon, most likely. Meg's taking the on-call phone so I can go. I really appreciate it, thank you so much!!

Ok, I need to be productive now. Later y'all.

So here I am

So yeah...I'm here now.

I'll post stuff here.

You know how that goes.

But now, I need to go to class.

Later.