June 09, 2002 | 9:46 AM

Some very very strange, albeit very very good things are happening to me.

I don�t want to go into it too much right now.

It has to do primarily (and embarrassingly) with a small pill I take every day, a pill that is half white and half aquamarine in color. A pill I began taking a little over two weeks ago.

It was with extraordinary delight last night that I realized I had not obsessed and worried, nor had I cried about anything for two whole days. That I had in fact found myself dancing to The White Stripes in my kitchen not just once, but several times over the past forty-eight hours.

I can even imagine hearing something mean spirited and laughing at it as opposed to letting it rain on my parade and making me feel worthless for days on end.

Oh my gosh! I have lightened up and am continuing to do so.

Also, I have (shhh!) lost almost twenty pounds. And this is a good thing. A very very good thing. Every time I walk down the street I want to break into a skip or a little gallop because of the boundless energy I have recently inherited.

I have become relentlessly cheerful.

I love pharmacology.