The spinning thing goes faster and the bed moves out slowly, then back in, then out again. The whole thing slows down and the lady says "okay, you're done".

In the song "Space Oddity" by David Bowie, exactly where do things go horribly wrong for Major Tom? When his circuit goes dead? Right before that when he tells his wife he loves her very much? When he leaves the spacecraft?

The allergist says I have a polyp up my nose. In the left nostril. That damn left nostril has been working against me from day one. The Flonase I'm on (two squirts daily) will probably take a long time to get rid of it, but she wanted to do a CT scan of my sinuses because (God help me) "we can spray all the stuff in the world up there but it's not going to help if you have a sinus full of polyps". I fucking hate that word more than anything. If they say my sinuses are polyp fucking city I'm going to bash my head open with a brick because the thought of it makes me want to die in the most gruesome way imaginable.