Stanley Kubrick MRI
I had the MRI today. I was guided through the procedure by the initially appealing but soon annoying William. I had to take off my shirt, get up on the machine and lay on some plastic molds, and then be moved slowly into the main tube of the machine. Then I had to lay there for like 15 minutes and listen to a series of beeps and farting noises while the machine worked. Then William injected some (pleantly cool, actually) dye into my arm, and I waited another ten minutes or so, listening to more beeping and farting while lying as still as possible.
It really wasn’t as scary or claustaphobic as I’d thought it would be. The inside of the machine was all white, and I felt like I was in 2001. There was even a little camera “face” at the mouth of the tube, with a little “eye” and everything, which made me think of HAL.