This outfit Queen Michelle has on is perfection.

Lumbar Puncture

Well, my mind is full to bursting at present. Can a brain actually burst? Would it be like when a body spontaneously combusts? I once burst a blood vessel in my brain, that was pretty surreal. They gave me a lumbar puncture, a procedure that extracts your brain fluid by putting a big ass needle into your spinal cord.

There was a little blood in the fluid when it came out, so the doctor said it could be two things, swelling of the brain (goodbye cruel world) or a burst blood vessel. She also did admit that she was a little shaky going into the spinal cord, so the blood could have been a result of that. Which meant she had to do it again. That hurt, a deep pain like nothing I had ever experienced, and I have given birth twice.

When she was holding the vial of my brain fluid I asked her if I could have it, that I wanted to drink it, she said no, it is now bio waste, cheeky wench. That was my chance right there to evolve some super human, extracted, then assimilated brain fluid powers.

I then had to go into the big pod like brain scanning machine so they could look for swelling of the brain, I was pretty spun out by this point and could only think about scenes from 2001: space odyssey, full orchestra going off in my head.
So yes, my reality pitch is about to shift quite monumentally, am I ready?

Today was a good day, the reason being, I found the book above whilst shelving in the adult fiction paperbacks. This is lush for many reasons:

I have never come across a copy before

Somebody had made it missing on the database, Braindance to the rescue

My daughter loves it as much as I do

I have learned who wrote the story, A Germanic Man

I am a geek who loves a Braindance story, this one is weaved into the very fabric of my childhood.

I love this story very deeply, the film is one of the best films ever

made, fact.

I just used the word love a lot.

I defy anybody to watch the scene with his horse and the swamp of sadness, and not cry.

Man, I watch it now with my children, and I still get weepy. The metaphor of the "nothing" is wonderful and a profound way of exploring the universe and the mysteries within.

So, all other books have been pushed back this weekend, I am off to fly with Falkor. If that name means nothing to you, hang your head in shame.

This is going to be as exciting as when I read the Wizard Of Oz, so much more went down in the book than in the film, and the film is ace.

Why All The Guess Work? You Can See What Needs To Be Done.

Albert Camus was an excellent man. The outsider is one of the best books ever written, it changed my outlook on life. And on a shallow note, he is very easy on my eyes.