Puddle Jumping in DCI need a job. It's looking like we're (probably) not moving to some crazy little town in the mid-west (at least for now) and I need a job - preferably on energy (or environmental) policy in Washington DC or New York City. Just putting that out there.
The pavement. The rain. The building. The dog. The cherry blossoms.
My feet, rythmically pounding the earth. The scent of lilac. The air in my lungs.
It's all the same stuff arranged in complex patterns that cause each specific behavior that makes up this gigantic cosmic dance.
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My jaw still doesn't open wide enough to put an entire sushi roll in my mouth. Shoving it through is messy and unpleasent . . reduced to knife and fork.At least I'm back on solid food and only on over-the-counter meds.
Saturday: Wisdom teeth removed. Percocet swallowed; day spent sleeping. Evening good, taking only Tylenol, even considered going out.
Sunday night: The throbing begins.
Tuesday: Regular pain killers stop being good enough and only provide about an hour of taking-the-edge-off-the-pain. Pain intensifies and is not relieved by Percocet, radiates to temples, ears, sinuses.
Wednesday: The oral surgeon said it's very unusual to have dry socket bi-laterally so it's probably just really severe pain of the normal variety. Well, then . . . prescribes double dose of Percocet and recommends more ibuprofen.
Wednesday/Thursday: I spend the better part of two days in a Percocet induced nap cycle.
Friday: It's not bi-lateral anymore, exactly. The left definately hurts worse but both sides have the characteristic radiating pain up to the temples/ears. Other oral surgeon says we could treat it by filling the sockets with paste and pain killers but that would slow down healing or just leave it to heal and prescribe more percocet . . . .
Saturday: I fill a third prescription for percocet from a third physician in 7 days . . . Does this get me on any sort of watch list?
I've gone from cuddling ice packs to prevent swelling to cuddling hot water bottles to bring it down.
Proof of human progress: The average diet and dental hygiene doesn't result major tooth loses by the third decade of life and, consequently, most of us experience the right of passage of having up to four major teeth extracted from the back of our jaws and any drilling or sawing involved with doing that (I forgot to ask for them when we were done on Saturday - oh well).
On the upside, I was wide awake at 4:30 yesterday morning when the Percocet™ wore off and took the car down the the Vietnam Memorial for a few sunrise shots. It's still so cold at 6 am that it's almost like having your face on ice just being out there.
This 
photo of Bug won her a gift certificate in a wet bird contest to Greyfeathertoys.com and now we will buy her this: 
Whoa.
Mac has been out of town and I've been playing tourist in DC.
Water in my shoes makes my toes slip. I laugh.
