It hasn’t rained much in Brisbane for the last couple of years really, what with the drought and all. That makes the rain that fell a few days ago all the better. Coupled with that, although entirely unrelated, has been the intake of copious amounts of water. While at university all day, I’ve found I’m drinking at least two litres of water a day as I refill my 600ml container.
Surely this is doing good things for my system, evidenced (in my opinion as a doctor) by the urgent need to visit the bathroom at about noon every day, and then hourly thereafter. As you may be able to imagine, this can at times be an annoyance.
Today’s story is my trip to pick up Kate from work in the city. Normally she meets me at university but, since it was pouring rain, her Knight in Shining Armour (me) raced over to whisk her away on a White Stallion (dirty 1983 Toyota Corolla).
More people drove to work to avoid getting wet, not having rained for a long time (my parent’s young pets witnessed it for the first time and completely freaked out), so the traffic was particularly bad. So bad, in fact, that I had time to do both the crossword and Sudoku while driving into the city.
Thus my theory of ACHIEVEMENT! goes something like this:
Where ‘completion of Crossword’ equals X, ‘completion of Sudoku’ equals S, and ‘time in traffic’ equals t
(X/S) - t = ACHIEVEMENT!
It was mostly an achievement for doing it in traffic. Unfortunately, there was an offsetting equation that could have ruined the whole afternoon. For reasons I won’t go into, I had to buy something to get some change. My purchase was 600 ml of coke. I made the mistake of opening it before my ‘time in traffic’ began. Thus the offsetting equation is:
(>2L(H2O)) * (0.6L(Coke)) + t = DISASTER!
Fortunately I averted DISASTER! by not drinking all of the 600ml Coke before reaching a toilet, thus nullifying the equation. It was poorly thought out, and unfortunate, that the need for an urgent hourly bathroom visit began soon after the departure on this 45 minute drive into the city.
Overall, the result of these equations was a slim ACHIEVEMENT!
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