I can heeeeeear!! Yippee!!!

I went to my new Otolaryngologist (fancy, eh?) and I was 15 minutes late so I had to wait for an hour (who knows but if I had been on time I wouldn't have had to wait for an hour and fifteen minutes?) before being ushered into the inner sanctum.

The doctor was super-nice, he shook hands and introduced himself as "First Name-Last Name" rather than "Dr. Last Name", which I found to be astonishingly human, and he riffed at me and I riffed back at him while he cleaned a softball sized hunk of wax out my ear.

It was so amazing to hear in stereo after so long, like when the world turns colour when Dorothy lands in Oz.

At that point it was too late to go back to work (aw darn!) so I went downtown to B. Dalton to spend $45 in gift certificates that I had forgotten that I had. I figured that since the new Harry Potter had just come out, now was the time to use them!

So I got the second Harry Potter as well, and Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (that I discovered I already have the second I got home--it was Feet of Clay that I was actually missing) and I just happened to stumble across a book called Stately Pursuits by Katie Fford that struck me as something I'd like.

The poor person at the register had to individually enter nine gift certificates. It took her about twenty minutes. Not a very efficient system.

Beth has started to spend half an hour each day cleaning. I think that's a brilliant idea! Maybe I'll try it, because I get so overwhelmed at the astonishing mess around here. But I'm such a slattern that I probably won't.

And I wouldn't take too much stock in Beth's description of her house being a Den of Filth. I've been there, and even though it was pre-puppy, I guarantee you that it's about 150,000 times cleaner than the real Den of Filth, where I currently reside.

Who're you gonna believe, the woman who actually scrubs out the shower or the one who hasn't put a single item of clothing away in over a year?

Heard last night on the MTV Video Music Awards, an introduction by Chris Rock: "Take off your thinking caps and lower your standards, it's Kid Rock!"

Well put, Chris! You are wise and pithy. (He's not pithy, he's Grover! Man, I'm stooping to referencing myself?)

Today's horoscope:
Optimism is emphasized. You're more restless today, with an urge to travel, to learn, to share ideas, or to make changes

One year ago today:
"You mean I have to dial ANOTHER NUMBER???!!!"

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