We went to the hospital today for a long-awaited appointment. I have been undergoing epilepsy tests but they came out negative. No abnormal electrical currents or any abnormal brain structures - I’m relieved that I’m not dying of a brain tumour and I’m frustrated that I could not get a clear, concise answer to wtf [...]
Addendum
.. we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of searching.
— HeisenbergKarie Bookish
Asides
- Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway
September 19, 2008A gorgeous, gorgeous song. I can't believe I never watched the video before now.
- Patrick Wolf- Danzing
September 7, 2008Patrick Wolf does Eurovision! (the 2007 offering from Ukraine, worryingly enough)
- Bulgakov Goes Glasgow
August 26, 2008Franz Ferdinand - Love & Destroy - inspired by Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita (which you should absolutely read).
- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
August 22, 2008Gorgeous version by Kira Skov and Marie Fisker.
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- Old Men in Love by Alasdair Gray
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Recent books:
- Going Out by Scarlett Thomas
- Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre
- Arabella by Georgette Heyer
- Wait Until Midnight by Amanda Quick
- The Devil in Amber: A Lucifer Box Novel by Mark Gatiss
Twitters
- Old lady 2 other: "i'm wearing my sexy dress under this but i'm not taking it off b4 we have more punters." am on boat on Clyde canal. 2008/10/04
- going to look at statues in the rain. 2008/10/04
- Feeling free, free, free 2008/10/03
- am about to collapse into a heap of pillows. Mmmm. Pillows. 2008/10/01


