I was so ill for part of last week, that I don’t even remember half of what happened. There are traces of things though–I went to the store at some point and bought earphones and apparently I almost set a pair of my gloves on fire.
My favorite part was an email I just found in my drafts to someone named Alexandra Livingston. This is funny because I don’t know anyone named Alexandra Livingston. This was the email:
__________________________
Dear Alexandra Livingston:
__________________________
I checked my deleted items and spam and I did not receive something from her first. I wonder what I was going to tell this imaginary person? Or ask her? Are any of you Alexandra Livingston? This reminds me of the time I had surgery and the medicine they put me on made me hallucinate that I had parakeet named Carol.
Have you ever had a funny hallucination while sick or on meds?
tales of a charm city chick 
Hilarious, La La. Are you feeling better. I’m worried about you. I don’t know an Alexandra Livingston. Perhaps, she is someone from your past. Once when I had a really high fever, I hallucinated about something. It was intense whatever it was.
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Haha, I do feel better…though curious to know if she exists. That flu is crazy!!! Stay well.
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What a bummer. I probably should get my flu shot. I’m so sorry you had to deal with that.
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I hope you’re feeling better La La! That’s a cool parakeet name though, Carol…
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So unique, right? Carol, ridiculous!
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Dearest La La (la la la la la),
You hallucinated quite a bit last week. You claimed to even have a Twitter conversation with a Stormtrooper. Sure, we believe you.
Glad you’re feeling better.
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That didn’t happen!? Egg vs. Tree?
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Egg. All the way.
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You have some serious work to do if we’re going to be friends.
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Holy shit! A big, listening ear isn’t enough? Waxing my armor isn’t enough? You, madam, have unattainable standards.
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You have ears in there? Crazy. And yes, a gal like me needs almost unattainable standards. You should see what turns up on my doorstep otherwise. Literally.
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Of course I have ears. There are also audio aids built into the helmet, of course.
Also, I did not “turn up” on your door step. We met through mutual friends. Or something.
Curiously, what kind of gal are you?
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Dude. I’m joking. If a guy has a smile, can make me laugh and will buy me something that is chocolate and peanut butter mixed every now and again, I will give it a shot.
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I know you’re joking. Unfortunately, my sarcastic tone is not always conveyed in print. I love our banter, even though you have unattainable standards. I won’t hold it against you, though.
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I just didn’t want you to think I have standards…in case you showed up on my doorstep.
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Well, I hope your standards include white, shiny armor…cause that’s my entire wardrobe.
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I have not. But now I’m very interested in knowing what you planned on telling this Alexandra Livingston.
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I’m thinking of making it into a story, to be honest.
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Too funny… Do you even remember talking to me? Any of the pictures I sent you of my crazy hair can could as hallucinations… 😉
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It’s all coming back to me now! 😉
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Define “meds”
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Anything you put in there…
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High School was kinda like a hallucination haha
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Damn I’m still sick and don’t feel like doing shit! I’m hallucinating I made chili today.
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Feel better, Mike!
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Hope you’re better. All of my hallucinations have been induced intentionally. 😉
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Hahaha! The Dittmer reveals a secret.
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Alter ego? Evil twin? Alias? Could be anything, really. Who knows what sort of life you lead when you’re unconscious????
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I’d set up a camera, but I don’t even want to know!
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Maybe that was the drunk e-mail you were going to send to me, but decided I needed a more respectable name. I often get drunk and write down post ideas. One morning when I opened up my notebook where I write such ideas, I had written, “figpin”. That is it. I still do not know what it means.
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NO. Hahahaha I am laughing so hard right now. This reminds me that I need to send you a video I made. You will appreciate it.
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Yay!!! I have one I can send you too. I got drunk and played on YouTube again.
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That’s one I want to see, too.
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You will enjoy it, Calahan!
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Mabye it was a typo and you meant to write “pigpen” from Peanuts. I’m not sure that helps you, but it’s something.
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I once hallucinated that a rat was climbing my curtains. I had a fever of 102 degrees. I was also watching “A Clockwork Orange.”
I mean, seriously, who the fuck watches that film while trying to break a fever?
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You, apparently! I’m surprised nothing else happened hahaha
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I have a confession to make. I… Am Alexandra Livingstone.
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I KNEW IT. What were we going to discuss? What was it!?
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I think it was something abut rice.
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Oh no! Well I hope you feel loads better though your post did make me giggle 🙂 I have no funny stories. Just a creepy one where I had an allergic reaction when I was smaller, took some Benadryl, and then later felt like all these bugs were attacking me and multiplying on my body. It was not fun nor funny and it traumatized me for a bit. Haha
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That sounds genuinely frightening. I may have nightmares tonight!
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I think my mom accidentally gave me drugs.
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The damn flue also got me, now I can open my eyes and blog.
Good to know you feeling better.
I had weird hallucinations in the past, all about the same, either someone killking my dog, I walk to the kitchen to get a knife cuz I need to find the one who killed my dog, or me buying a dog at Whole’s Food
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Glad you’re better, too. Your story sounds like the beginning to a horror flick all brought on by a fever.
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One time my husband found a piece if paper where he has written down the email plimpyc@oliverbrown.net. He had no recollection what what it meant. That has nothing to do with your post but I hope you’re feeling better.
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Did you ever email the address? Is it real? I love this story!
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Hope you’re feeling better, La La. Maybe Alexandra Livingston is some kind of guardian angel?
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Maybe. She has a cool name, if so. I would like her email address so I can contact her, too!
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La La,
We had a three-way with Alexandra Livingston at the New Years party……remember?
RidicuRyder
p.s. you kept calling her Becca, I think you were emailing to apologize.
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Well now it all makes sense! Thanks for clearing that up. I better get back to that email…
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She made the rounds that night…….it might help if you prompt things with “remember the guy that kept calling you Big Al?”
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I wish I had your hallucinations! Mine are pretty sad. I hallucinate about doing the laundry, but of course it is never done 😦
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Womp wooomp
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Alexandra Livingston sounds like the heroine of a historical romance.
I can’t remember any really vivid hallucinations but my wife had a 104 degree fever when we were on vacation in Tokyo. She kept insisting we had to go pick her brother up from the airport there.
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At least she wasn’t alone and didn’t go to the airport!
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I’m pretty sure she never would have found it in her state, but yes, just as well I was there.
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I’m just coming off that virus… maybe I’m hallucinating this. Glad you are better.
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Glad you are feeling better too!
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