And much Fandom squeeing will occur. Hat-tip to juldea on this one. Live Pottercast anyone?

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Being someone who focuses heavily on intuition and emotion/empathy, it keeps occuring to me that I need to find a better way to communicate to some of the sensers and thinkers about mental health issues - even those that may be struggling from them.

Our brains are chemicals, hormones, neurons, and all sorts of other biochemical neurology wrapped up in the ball of gray goo. The meds many of us are put on to combat the minor imbalances that can cause sometimes intense changes in mood, personality, and emotion are at best a crap shoot by many of the pharmaceutical companies.

That's an over-generalization, of course, but from the perspective of just how little we still know about how each nanometer of the human brain functions.

Overtime, I found this little bit of Bio-Filk forming in my head and while I did talk with some of my science friends about whether it makes scientific sense, I'm always open for modification.

Why Does My Brain Fry?
[to the tune of Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) by They Might Be Giants¹]

The Brain is a mass of chemical morass
A right ol' biochem circus
Where a slight, im-balance
Of Mono-a-mines
Can cause pan-ic, de-pres-sion and sad-ness

But you have friends
Who give you love and let you know you win.
But what's hap-pen-ing when they show they care your brain floods with
ser-a-ton-in!

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Why does my brain fry? by B.K. DeLong is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at bkdelong.livejournal.com.

¹They Might Be Giants. (1993). Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas). Why Does the Sun Shine? (EP) [CD]. New York: Elektra.

Dammit, dammit, dammit. I need to get better at writing down what's in my head.

When I go out to walk the dogs, am driving somewhere, trying to get off to sleep, I'm usually inside my head brainstorming. I'm pretty good with mind visualization and I swear I could live in there. It's be better than TV if I could connect it to my.....what is it.....visual and aural cortex?

Anyway, in the past year on one of my walks, I spent a lot of time looking at the stars. It was definitely late spring or summer and quite nice out. I was looking up and trying to identify constellations and stars with little success. Being a Scifi geek and always pondering the stars, space and other "star systems" and being a technologist, futurist and pseudo-transhumanist, I'm always thinking of ways to make life easier. The spiritual side of me is constantly fascinated by coorespondences in more Earth and astrological-based religiousness.

So I started dreaming.

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Ah, the future. One can hardly wait.