Right now I am hooked up to one of these things:

...only I'm not as bozz-eyed as that man there. Nor do I appear to be some sort of a trucker.
Anyway, that's basically stuck to my arm for the next 13 hours or so as is a not-so-little machine in an ugly case which is attached to an ugly belt that I have to wear around my waist, all of which is linked together with a big black wire that's kind of tangled around me. It's almost as inconspicuous as listening to music on a 20-year-old Walkman with a giant pair of rubbish headphones instead of a teeny little iPod.

I'm only writing about this because I'm not looking forward to going to bed and attempting to sleep with my Robocop gear on, especially when it takes a BP reading once every hour. It just took a reading now without warning ('cause the thingy doesn't beep at night) and it just scared the shit out of me. My blood pressure will go through the roof if I'm jumping out of my skin every 60 minutes. It's going to be a long night.
On the bright side, all the cool kids wear them.

and take photos of themselves wearing it with an abnormally large camera lens.
fml.