Anapalactic epidemic
I’m starting to think that my anapalactic episodes are caused by a bacterial infection that is now running wild! I had another one today when, in talking with a co-worker, I thought he said ‘they call him the Samus programmer’. Samus, of course being Samus Aran, the female hero of the Metroid games who is only revealed as a female at the end of the game.
As I’m prone to wildly delusional thoughts anyway, this immediately brought questions to mind. He said the guys name was Aaron. Did he really mean Erin? Does this guy sit around in an orange helmet all day? Does the code he writes turn out to be not exactly what you expected when it’s done? How did this even come up in conversation?
Turns out he said ‘they call him a programmer’. That goes beyond mishearing to totally making stuff up. And I’m just waiting for the AAS (American Anapalactic Society) to show up and ask permission to use me for research. Which means that my going insane will be good for something at least. I mean other than entertaining the people who I mishear.