If I Were A Zombie

I have been listening to this song over, and over, and over... I think my brain has temporarily suspended all processes and devoted its entire power to the adorable simplicity that is... The Zombie Song.



So, personally, I didn't really get into the zombie craze. I enjoyed playing Resident Evil and Dead Space with a good friend, and the occasional movie is entertaining enough (The Evil Dead franchise is just hilarious). However, zombies as a concept don't grab me. They say (who is they again?) that fad enemies like zombies tend to represent some intangible fear of the movie-going population. Perhaps I'm just not scared of whatever zombies could represent. Greed and sloth? Aging and decay?
I should really look this up... A very fast Google search revealed this interesting article (check out the articles they link to, as well, fascinating stuff). I do love a good disaster flick, so maybe I simply haven't given zombies enough of a chance to provide me with post-apocalyptic entertainment.

I was really scared of the unknown as a kid (a.k.a. 'scared of the dark'), and I would either wet my bed or crawl in with my sister / parents until an embarrassing age. I stopped needing to have some light when I slept only a few years ago (my husband was much relieved), around the same time I stopped feeling 'if only I was older/smarter/etc' and started thinking 'this is it, this is where I want to be'. It's also around about when I got my undergraduate degree and felt like I could be a real scientist, instead of a kid playing with science. So it's possible that my fears were grounded in self esteem issues, but I prefer to think it's because I now have the tools available to start tackling 'the unknown' in my professional life.

Whether or not I utilise those tools fully, well, that's a story for another day. For now, I will be singing, "I'd never eat your brain...I'd just want your heart, Just want your heart, Yeah I want your heart" as I collect data, and curses upon anyone who doesn't wanna hear it!