Writing on Water

Yes, Virginia, you CAN get sick of ice cream

DAY 1 POST-OP

Yesterday I posted THIS on my twitter blog:

So me n my tonsils parted company today. Nomming icecream ftw!! #imtoooldforthisshit

"FTW" indeed!! My post-op instructions inform my mom that she should try to keep me indoors and "relatively quiet" for the first three days. They ARE, after all, post-op instructions for the parents of children who have just undergone a tonsillectomy. Adults can use pretty much the same post-op instructions...it's just that we need to double everything.

It takes at least twice a long for an adult to recover from this same procedure, and it is significantly more painful and debilitating. Debilitating partly from the pain, and partly from the pain killers used to manage it.

I would otherwise be on "Day 2" of my post-op instructions and would be able to add pudding, pureed veggies, cottage cheese, etc to my diet -- oh I WISH. I can't even imagine washing BROTH (allowed on Day 1) over these tonsil-holes, let alone something more substantial in texture and nutrition! Still suckin' down the vanilla ice cream at this point. Just whipped up a batch of JELL-O though (... well mom and/or sis did anyway) so I'm broadening my culinary horizons by at least 100%

Turn to the right...wait.

I do not have to walk far from my office to encounter this kind of stuff, and in deference to Abe Froman the Sausage King of Chicago, I too weep for the future.

Yes, the angle brackets on the adjacent "signage" are supposed to represent directional arrows, and yes they absolutely do indeed point ever so clearly and boldly to the LEFT.

I know the question that is trying to form in your rational mind at this very moment, and while you probably have not completely finished constructing it (it's okay... I know you're distracted by a horde of jostling and competing thoughts) I can tell you that the answer to your question is "I DON'T KNOW!!!"