Last Tuesday night I completely threw out my back and was subjected to laying on the couch unable to stand or sit up for 48 hours. I was unable to go to class, work out, or sit on the toilet with out being in excruciating pain. This was the most frustrating injury maybe ever because I was literally immobile. I had to rely on other people to do normal things for me like, get me a bottle of water from the fridge, bring me some advil or hand me the remote. However 48 hours straight on the couch taught me a lot of things. A lot of things that you wouldn't ever think about except if you had to be this immobile.
1) I have some really good friends. Multiple different people took time out of the their busy days to come over and hang out with me because I was bored silly. Whether it was coming over to watch a Red Sox playoff game, coming over to hang out after dinner, or bringing me drugs someone was with me pretty much the entire 48 hours.
2) Vicodin is one hell of a drug. I mean I can understand why this shit can get sold on the street. I mean this pill completely got rid of the pain and generally put me right to sleep which is a really good thing when you can't move. You can't be bored if you sleep like crazy.
3) www.tv-links.co.uk is the single greatest website of all time. It literally has "free" episodes of every tv show that was ever made. Before you come back at me and say, "Hey man, where's Small Wonder? You know that creepy show with the little girl that was really a doll or robot. It isn't there." First off, I would say Fuck You. Secondly, it doesn't have every show but it has pretty much everything you would ever want to watch. Hey Dude, The Smurfs, Dynosaucers, etc. are all there. Go ahead and enjoy yourself.
4) Did I mention how awesome Vicodin is? I mean really, really good stuff there.
5) Ok, this one I knew already but it took this 2 days to really sit down and figure it out. Using the previously mentioned website I decided to do what Tommy Hartnett, Mark Vanni and Bill Simmons have been telling me to do for the last year, starting watching The Wire. Tommy said give it 3 shows and you will be hooked. He was wrong. It only took 2. This is honestly the greatest show on TV. I have watched almost 2 whole seasons and I can't rave about this show enough. I watched the first 7 episodes in a row. (What can I say, I was incredibly incredibly bored on that damn couch) The show follows the drug trafficking in Baltimore, Maryland and how the police use technology and cool shit like that to bring them down. From this show I have learned more about probable cause then Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure classes ever have. I don't do this because I don't want people to come back and say "WTF?!?!?! You recommended that shit and it sucked" but you need to start watching because this is the single best show on TV. Better then The Sopranos, Better then 24, Better then anything you can come up with. You will regret not watching it when it is all said and done.
I am now up and around and I am really excited to be walking and able to function as part of society and I hope I never hurt my back like that again but at the same time I learned a ton of cool shit from those 48 hours on the couch. And if anyone else can score me some Vicodin I would be much obliged.
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