Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Lying in Bed

I'm in bed with my girlfriend , yes I do have a girlfriend but she reads this blog so I'll call her the nameless one from her in.
Anyway, I'm in bed and we've just finished having sex and my mind is popping and fizzing the way it does afterwards if youre a man.
Kinda feels like your heads full of water and someone has dropped an alka-seltzer in there, mixed with a complete inability to function of someone who has just woken up, together with the smugness and satisfaction of someone who has completely over-indulged in thier favourite vice.
So I'm in bed , looking like a corpse and feeling like an angel, all this stuff starts flashing through my mind. Its like GoogleMaps when you plot a route, I can see streets highlighted by coloured bars from one place to another.
I can see the complete route to nameless's house from mine as if plotted by googlemaps. Its a new perspective and an inspiration to be able to think about one place topologically as opposed to the arcane way I usually navigate.
Instead of thinking what road i am on , I navigate by ques.
Inside Gregs Head:
Continue on road until you get to small side street with 3 cracks on the pavement outside chicken shop.
Turn right at Sainsburys.
Continue along the road until you get to the traffic lights with a broken lightshade
Turn left
Continue until you get to the bumpy bit of road
Go straight until the road stops being bumpy then stop, look up and you should be there.

THIS, this is how I am able to drive from place to place without knowing where the hell i am at any one moment.
My navigation skills are as crap as they come. And rely on a whole host of secret markers. If asked to renavigate around a road and join the road, I can't do it.
If someone repairs the pavement , I get lost!
But lying in my bed with my head fizzing, butt naked - I could see a different way of being.
nameless snuggles up and asks me what I'm thinking
"I'm thinking about maps"
Kinda killed the moment.....