Hangover Scale...from 1 star to a 6 star
>
>1 star hangover *
>
>No pain. No real feeling of illness. Your slept in your own bed
>and when you woke up there were no traffic cones in there with you. You
>are still able to function relatively well on the energy stored up from all
>those vodka red bulls. However, you can drink 10 bottles of water and
>still feel as parched as the Sahara. Even vegetarians are craving a
>Cheeseburger and a side of fries.
>
>2 star hangover * *
>
>No pain, but something is definitely amiss. You may look okay but you
>have the attention span and mental capacity of a stapler. The coffee
>you hug, to try and remain focused is only exacerbating your rumbling gut,
>which is craving a full English breakfast. Although you have a nice >demeanor
>about the office, you are costing your employer valuable money because all
>you really can handle is some light filing, followed by aimlessly surfing
>the net and writing junk e-mails.
>
>3 star hangover * * *
>
>Slight headache. Stomach feels crap. You are definitely a space cadet
>and not so productive. Anytime a girl or lad walks by you gag, because
>her/his perfume/aftershave reminds you of the random gin shots you did
>with your alcoholic friends after the bouncer kicked you out at 1:45 a.m.
>Life would be better right now if you were in your bed with a dozen
>doughnuts and a liter of coke watching daytime TV. You've had 4 cups of
>coffee, a >gallon of water, 2 Sausage Rolls and a liter of diet coke, yet you
>haven't peed once.
>
>4 star hangover * * * *
>
>You have lost the will to live. Your head is throbbing and you
>can't speak too quickly or else you might spew. Your boss has already
>lambasted you for being late and has given you a lecture for reeking of
>booze.
>You wore nice clothes, but you smell of socks, and you can't hide the fact
>that you either missed an oh-so crucial spot shaving, or it looks like you
>put your make-up on while riding the dodgems depending on your gender.
>Your teeth have their own individual sweaters. Your eyes look like one big
>vein and your hairstyle makes you look like a reject from the second-grade
>class picture circa 1976. You would give a weeks pay for one of the >following:
>Home time, doughnuts and somewhere to be alone, or a Time machine so you
>could go back and NOT have gone out the night before. You scare small
>children in the street just by walking past them.
>
>5 star hangover * * * * *
>
>You have a second heartbeat in your head, which is actually
>annoying the employee who sits next to you. Vodka vapor is seeping out of
>every pore and making you dizzy. You still have toothpaste crust in the
>corners of your mouth from brushing your teeth. Your body has lost the
>ability to generate saliva, so your tongue is suffocating you. You'd cry >but
>that would take the last of the moisture left in your body. Death seems
>pretty good right now. Your boss doesn't even get mad at you and your
>co-workers think that your dog just died, because you look so pathetic. You
>should have called in sick because, let's face it, all you can manage to
>do is breathe - very gently.
>
>6 star hangover * * * * * *
>
>You arrive home and climb into bed. Sleep comes instantly; as you
>were fighting it all the way home in the taxi. You get about 2 hours
>sleep until the noises inside your head wake you up. You notice that
>you bed has been cleared for take off and is flying relentlessly around the >room.
>No matter what you do you now, you're going to chuck. You stumble out of
>bed and now find that your room is in a yacht under full sail. After >walking
>along the skirting boards on alternating walls knocking off all the
>pictures, you find the toilet. If you are lucky you will remember to
>lift the lid before you spontaneously explode and wake the whole house
>up with your impersonation of walrus mating calls. You sit there on the
>floor in your >undies, cuddling the only friend in the world you have left (the toilet),
>randomly continuing to make the walrus noises, spitting, and farting. Help
>usually comes at this stage, even if it is short lived. Tears stream down
>your face and your abdomen hurts. Help now turns into abuse and he/she
>usually goes back to bed leaving you there in the dark. With your stomach
>totally empty, >your spontaneous eruptions have died back to 15-minute intervals, but
>your body won't relent. You are convinced that you are starting to turn
>yourself inside out, and swear that you saw your tonsils projectile out
>your mouth on the last occasion. It is now dawn and you pass your disgusted
>partner, getting up for the day as you try to climb into bed. She/He
>abuses you again for trying to get into bed with lumpy bits of dried vomit
>in your hair. You reluctantly accept their advice and have a shower in
>exchange for them driving you to the hospital. Work is not an option.
I started the morning as a 6, am currently a 3, moving onto a 2.
Oh, and I'm out again tonight. 8)