03.04.05

Hanamizu is Japanese for hayfever. Get ready for an anti-histamine-fueled trip into the duct work of my mind. Duck! Mind your head there, bucko. There are some weird turns in this part.

The word, hanamizu, makes me laugh. I've tried to explain it, only to have people stare blankly or gnaw at their arms to get away.

The word hanamizu, broken into its parts, translates as "nose water." Which is a good description, considering that I'm sitting here with a tissue shoved up my nose because Victoria Falls has magically transplanted itself into my sinuses. Hana is a homophone for the Japanese for "flower." Which is also apt, since it's the dang blossoms being all fertile that causes nose water. The homonym aspect works only in the romanji.

Why I get a kick out of that is a mystery.

Oy.

I'm starting to eye the hot glue gun and wondering how much, really, it would hurt to sear my sinuses out of my skull. Is it worse than over 24 hours of being a streambed? It's a close call. Give me some more anti-histamines and I might do it.

Or not. How difficult would that be to explain? "I was tryin' to sear out my sinuses, but ended up giving myself a trans-orbital lobotomy, and have become synesthesic. You smell a bit chartreuse today." Eep. That'd be bad.

La, la, la.

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