it takes one hour, three glasses of water, and the breath of morning between first awakened yawn and turning the shower faucet on, bare bodied, stepping on the plate to present myself to the cold, small, square an exhibit a self examination i'd say that those three numbers will dictate what kind of day i will have, because obviously, it could only be good or bad, but i will hate myself whether or not the number is less or more than the one before and my last good day was about 15 pounds ago