I am a totally normal human being ...

Okay, I've just switched back to graveyard shift after eight grueling months of reluctantly creaking upright sometime around 4:30 each morning. Unfortunately, my body hasn't figured out that I really mean it when I give it permission to stay in bed past noon. So, when I was perusing the BBC News website, I though perhaps I was hallucinating this article about a boy with three arms -- two left arms and one right.

You've probably noticed that people usually have two arms. So, in its exhausted state, my mind immediately began to wonder if there is some sort of balance of arms in the world. We know that, according to some law I'm too confuxled to remember, matter is neither created nor destroyed. Rick Allen, the drummer for Def Leppard, lost his left arm in an accident and now embodies the "sound of one arm rocking." I can vouch for his fantabulousness - I went to see Def Leppard at the California State Fair a few years ago. While I couldn't actually see the stage, since several basketball player-sized people parked themselves in front of me, they definitely sounded great. Maybe his arm has finally found a place to rest in a young Chinese boy's shoulder. Ironically, Jie-Jie will probably never become a two- or three-handed drumming prodigy as both of his left arms have limited, if any, function.

Welcome to my mind, pre-graveyard acclimatization.