My brain is an ocean

I have a cold.

Probably.

I don't really feel like I have a cold. I feel like, well, I haven't had a cold or other virus for nearly three years because of masking and avoiding humans as much as I can while still paying my mortgage every month, but I have had allergies and the allergy snot has slowly accumulated all of this time and today is the day it all came out.

I say snot but only because it is indeed coming out of my nose (my right nostril only), but if you just saw a puddle of it and I didn't tell you where it came from, you would call it water.

This thin, clear, completely un-mucus like liquid has been pouring out of my right nostril all day. My right eye is also a bit watery, I think because there is just so much dammed up inside my skull. So I decided that a fun hook for today's post would be something about how the human body is so much percentage water and mine is all in my head. But I don't know the human body water percentage.

So I googled it.

According to the US Geological Survey site (I don't understand either), an adult male is about 60% water, but an adult woman is more like 55% water. It all has to do with fat cells having less water and women in general have more fat cells than men. Or something.

Which sent me on one of my best tangents ever. I am biologically an adult woman. And I am overweight, thus having more fat cells than the average woman used in random statistics. I assume. Does that mean I'm closer to 40% -- or even less -- water? Does high BMI actually equal less water in a human body?

The mind boggles. Or at least mine does.

But then I noticed the same government site breaks it down more. Bones are 22% water, muscles 75%, and blood 83%. But how much water is in a human head (that is what started this whole post)? The best answer I get from the government without bothering to read the whole Water Science School article is:

brain 75% water

Now I'm not one for just trusting everything the government posts, but I don't really have any way to test this. Although have been times when, for various reasons, getting my brain out of my head for a bit seems like a good idea. But I haven't actually separated the two so I've had no chance to determine how much of my brain is just water.

And I have no idea what to do with the fact that a human brain is 75% water. However I thought I might use the body water percentage disappeared during the bmi / bwi (body water index) diversion.

To be honest, I don't remember at all what my plan was when I started this post. Possibly because I've lost so much brain water today.

(I also can't remember if I did my exercise bike thing this morning. I kind of think not remembering means I didn't. So I had a whopping 2-day streak before I failed that.)

But I made it through the day. Altho I have to wonder if this is one of those times when I think the day went more or less like any other and I didn't eff it up too badly, but then we switch to a different pov and really I was just a dripping babbling mess. It's possible. Look at the nonsense I've typec so far. What if this is what I was like all day?

And what will tomorrow be? I see three possibilities.

1. I wake up feeling like I usually do, no better, no worse except my nose is incredibly raw from so much blowing and wiping.

2. I wake up, realize that is probably the worst possible thing I could do, text that I'm too sick to come in to work (which will be a huge relief to the people who worked beside my runny nose all day today), and just wallow.

3. I drown in my sleep because this weird brain water can't run out if my nose when I'm lying flat so it goes diwn my throat and I can't breathe and my lungs fill with liquid and I die.

It seems to be 9:15 pm, assuming I can still read a digital clock correctly. Time to see what cold meds I've had in the medicine cabinet since before covid. I really hope this isn't my last post.