Single and doing some rare internet browsing.
Did you miss the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s National Brain Awareness Week? So did I. Is this to make us more aware that we have brains and that we should exercise them more or educate us of all of the myriad of strange and unusual brain diseases and conditions out there? Are mental illnesses officially brain diseases too? Either way, we missed it. It was the first week of March. BTW: I love brain diseases in concept, but not in reality. In concept, there are some really provocative conditions.
I can hear the middle school kids now: “Ewwwwww! Gross! Cool… can I touch it? If I poke the brain here will it make him twitch?” (a Hannible Lecter moment) At this point I’m also tempted to say something about alcoholism as a brain disease but alas, this does get to be a tiresome subject. Plainly I can’t help it, a hangover from my last job at a research center on alcoholism (HA! I just caught that!). I’m in the camp that believes that there are both neurological and sociological components. Sorry, it just seems to me that both have to be taken into account and a magic little pill will help but it won’t replace all of the liquor stores in West Oakland disappear with farmer’s markets.
Whatever. Back to the ewwww, gross, and cool. The National Museum of Health and Medicine also brings us a wonderful Flickr treasure trove of photographs that document the edge of medical science history, but also seem strangely voyeuristic. Browse through the collection, you’ll see what I mean. But here’s another interesting documented fact in the photo collection, Pompeii-ans were performing surgeries with fairly sophisticated tools. 
So, the title of this post. My life partner has abandoned me for Gotham city under the pretext of work. Sadly for him, there is more working than touring the city. Funny thing is, he misses Bay Area food! NYC food is so unhealthy and greasy he says.
So I am single. Duly noted on Facebook for April Fool’s day as well, which prompted some concern among fellow Facebook friends. Their concern was eased when I changed my relationship status back to “married.” But being temporarily single means that I am spending more time doing things I normally don’t do, like browsing the internet aimlessly and spamming friends with links and Google Reader articles. Wow, it’s now 11pm and I should just plain sign off before descending further into incoherency and randomness. Maybe just one more bazaar Wikipedia on Hannibal Lecter? I know there was a brain scene in one of those movies. It was definitely in the gross category.
TMI?????
