Your Personal Guide Through The Life Of Dana

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You may recall how excited I was when someone did a search for ‘pew pew pew’ and found canadiandana.com.  This one however just sounds totally creepy out of context.  But IN context, this person got exactly what they wanted!

EEG - The Results are in!

I went to visit my Neurologist today to get the results of the EEG I had a few weeks ago. You can see the post about that here.

Lucky for me, my brain processes are 100% perfect, and no permanent damage has come from my Malformation. I wish this meant that I didn’t need surgery anymore, but I’m not too convinced of that. I still have to go back to the neurosurgeon to see what he has to say. I’m pretty sure he’ll still want to cut me open.

Memories

Like an expectant momma..

Nothing gives me MORE pride than someone finding my website as a result of typing ‘PEW PEW PEW’ into google search.

Red Rings

This is the second console to red ring on me/my family.  James (or as some on XBL know him, MR DOOM inc) just had his xbox 360 crap the bed.  Hopefully this will be the last time we have to deal with this.

Hearts.

It look me a while, but I have a few new best friends.

Laid Off

lifeofbk:

Now that Greatest American Dog is wrapping the last episode, the office is empty.  There are currently no shows in production, and the staff is as barebones as it can possibly be to facilitate development of new programming. There are leftover doughnuts every Friday, and the company liquor cabinet can go an afternoon witout being replenished.  It’s a ghost town.

Due to my vast array of knowlege in the post department, I was safe for a long time.  Unfortunately, they can no longer afford me after this Friday.

It might be a good thing.  I was stagnating in this room, and getting too comfortable working a 9-7 shift.  I’ve been meaning to get back into freelance, and now I can, without ever “quitting” Actual Reality.  They promised me gigs as an Assistant Editor, and I look forward to taking them up on that.

In the meantime, I’m excited to see if the “social-networking safety net” applies to people in the film/television industry, or if it’s total bullshit.  I’m not living paycheck to paycheck by any means, but I do need to make money.  AIM: lifeofbk

whew… do I know THIS feeling. I’ve been laid off going on 8 weeks now. The automotive industry she is a fickle bitch.  Collecting Unemployment while I’m off is ok, but sometimes TOO much time off of work drives me nutty.

Baby's First EEG

So the next step on my road to head wellness brought me to a Neurologist who performed an EEG on me.  Or as our pal Wiki states: ‘Electroencephalography (EEG) is the measurement of electrical activity produced by the brain as recorded from electrodes placed on the scalp.’

Once they had me all electroded up, they proceeded to shock me on both my writs and my ankle.  What this did was make my thumb and toes move on their own, thus recording how quickly messages get from the shock to my brain and back to produce the twitch.  It was actually really cool, and not at all painful as the words ‘electric shock’ would have you think.  After the shocking came another test where I put on headphones and listed to annoying clicking for 10 minutes.  That wasn’t so bad either.  In fact I’m pretty sure I could of fallen asleep if I really wanted to.

I have to wait for the results of the tests, but something tells me it went great.  So I am not too concerned.  I’ll be sure to update when I gets those.

So all in all, as nervous as I was for these tests, they were painless.  (I have no idea why I was expecting so much pain.  I was waiting to walk in there for a damn spinal tap or something.) The only down side? I now have electrode goo in my hair. Hot.