Friday 6 February 2009

Plans Which Backfire Spectacularly

Well, I quit smoking. Haven't had a cigarette for a couple of days. All well and good, no?

Sadly, this state of affairs can not be maintained. I am now making a concerted effort to obtain kreteks. These are clove cigarettes. I don't want them because they are a classic goth cliche, although I do appreciate this. Oh no, I want them because they are rumoured to make your lungs bleed. I mean real, heamorhagic pulmonary edema type bleeding. Yes, I think that coughing up blood is cool.

There is possibly something very wrong with my brain. I woke up feeling unreal, like I was physically falling through space. This has happened for the last three days. Maybe I'm going to have a mental breakdown. That would be pretty entertaining. I'd make sure to blog every morbid detail of it too.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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