Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Does this dress make me look mad?


Philippa says my mind is weird and that I think of some really strange things at times.
This is only because we were cuddling in bed falling asleep and I asked her ‘can you think of another word that had three sets of repeated consonants like IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE?’
She slowly and wearily got out of bed and questioned my sanity.
But what had happened was this - my mind wanders around a bit when I’m drifting off to sleep, and Philippa had cuddled up really close and I was resting my face on her hair. That reminded me of a time an ex-girlfriend dyed her hair blonde with peroxide and it stank. That made me think of an article I read recently about Ergosterol Peroxide, a steroid derivate from fungi that might be useful as an antiviral, antitumor and anti-inflammatory ingredient, as well as displaying immunosuppressive properties. And then I pictured the word IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE in my head and I thought ‘wow - there’s a twin-set of Ms, and a twin-set of P’s and a twin-set of S’s in there’ and I wondered if there were any other English words like that and I couldn’t think of any, so I asked Philippa, and she went off to sleep on the sofa. To me, though, my thoughts displayed a logical progression, and I was fully justified to ask her the question I did.
This morning, at breakfast, she wondered just how much crap I think about in the course of a day, so tomorrow I’m going to write down everything I think about while at work and see what it’s like. I'm hoping it’ll make me look like a deep-thinking intellectual genius; Philippa thinks it’ll make me look like a lunatic.


RC 23-8-11

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