i just redid the template. still not all that i wanted, but its better than the big yellow titles on my old sidebar. none of the blogger templates do much for me, but this one seems okay, at least until i'm sick of it, or until my html improves enough to really do what i want.
today i had oral surgery. it only lasted about an hour and the bottom half of my face is still numb. being conscious for surgery on one's face is an odd experience. i guess almost all of us have been there, but that's what i spent the last hour thinking about so, like it or not, that's the blather for today.
they numbed me up, then started working away. i couldn't feel anything, except for the occasional tug of my head in one direction or the other. but the dentist and his assistant spent the whole time talking about the state of my mouth, which i couldn't see, of course, but it kept me wondering if things were going okay. they never seemed to get too excited, which i took to be a good sign.
i would also occasionally catch a glimpse of a red-tinged metallic instrument, which i assumed was some kind of knife oozing with bloody remains of what used to be my gums. there were also occasional flashes of red reflected in the glass above me. or maybe i imagined it. did i mention i didn't have my glasses on? i knew it was almost over when they started sewing. i saw the red thread go in and out of my mouth and my head was pushed back and forth with each stroke. then they stopped and realized that the dental hygienists forgot the bandages so she ran off to find them. i guess my mouth was bleeding a lot, because the dental surgeon was left holding my head, applying pressure to that senseless area around my lower lip. and so i lay there, a strange dentist cradling my head and occasionally dabbling what i assumed to be blood from my lips. i felt like i was in a cheesy war movie and had the sudden urge to give a melodramatic speech. luckily there was so much crap in my mouth, i couldn't talk.
so now i probably can't eat normally for another week and i'm not sure how good of a shape i will be in after the numbness wears off. i have a legal conference tomorrow in trenton. (did i mention to whoever reads this and doesn't know my secret identity that i am a lawyer? or that i don't live in trenton?) hopefully, i will be able to do more than sit there and drool blood (on the other hand, that could intimidate the other side)
because i probably can't do much, i think i'm gonna spend a lot of my time in the next few days reading. i started a warrior's honor by michael ignatieff. hopefully, the fact that i can't do much else will also mean i will work on my arabic more.
i'm in no mood for political rants. maybe it will become an every other post thing. plenty of outrageous things are going on though. like this and this and this. there's more too, but go find them yourself.
do i have to do everything around here?
