Hysterical
hys·ter·i·cal (hĭ-stěr'ĭ-kəl)
-adj
1. of, pertaining to, or characterized by hysteria.
2. uncontrollably emotional.
3. irrational from fear, emotion, or an emotional shock.
4. causing hysteria.
5. suffering from or subject to hysteria.
6. causing unrestrained laughter; very funny: Oh, that joke is hysterical!
The Back Story
Well, I felt hysterical when one of the applications on facebook decided to "tell me off". Cyberdyne, Skynet, Judgement day .. it all begins here. The story goes as such, when I finally finished reading "Who Moved My Blackberry?", I updated the status on my Books application on FaceBook. In a nutshell, this allows people to see what I've read & what I'm currently reading. So a week passes and I get an email from this application..
Subject: You've been reading 'THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER' for more than a week. Still true?
I'm thinking to myself, are you serious? A piece of code is now telling me how to lead my life? The thought of it somehow reminded me of the quote from Road to Perdition "It's all so f*cking hysterical" from Daniel Craig (Pre-007). Funnily enough, the book itself is also about doctors who are psychoanalysts. They study and 'cure' hysteria. Seems like I have a thing or two to learn from them. ;)

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