hi. i'm in a rock band again, with aaron and abby. we played a gig a couple weekends back. it was very fun! my girlfriend cut my hair like ray davies so i am now more fabulous. i don't have his face shape so i look almost nothing like him, save for the massive gap between my front teeth. at parfait i wore sideburns, which were just my hair attached to my face with spirit gum. i really like wearing sideburns!

last tuesday i had my remaining 3 wisdom teeth removed at the hospital under general anaesthetic. recovering from the surgery was/is annoying. i was too miserable to leave the house until sunday (also there was a blizzard so i wasn't going to bother braving the elements)!!! my jaw was really achey and i still can't quite open my mouth fully. other highlights have included: only being able to eat mushy food; the giant ulcer on the inside of my lip; the nasty bout of thr*sh brought on by the antibiotics; and the left side of my tongue still being numb nearly a week after the operation. this maybe doesn't sound like too big a deal but if you think about it, it impacts upon your enjoyment of eating and, um, pashing. therefore its a pain in the ass, QED.

the nice people at the hospital gave me a prescription containing copious amounts of pain relief, including CODEINE. good on them! i am saving up that codeine for my next few periods, which are always excruciating.

here's what i did while i was stuck in the house:
1) made a bed out of the couch in the lounge
2) hung out in baggy clothes with my trashtastic zebra-print mink blanket wrapped around myself at all times.
3) read a little of "the farewell symphony" by edmund white.
4) watched motorcycle diaries, perfect creature, lost highway, this is spinal tap, and the big lebowski, the latter of which i appreciated much more than the first time i saw it, perhaps because i wasn't stoned out of my brain.
5) tried to watch last days, but found the first half hour painfully tedious. it made my jaw ache even more. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING GUS VAN SANT?? lets just say that my own private idaho was your best work, and leave it at that.
6) napped
7) napped again
8) season 6 of buffy. had numerous arguments with my boyfriend defending my love of spike. none of which were logical. he thinks i'm too hard on xander. to which i can only respond SPIKE RULZ XANDER PULZ ALL WHO DISAGREE ARE FULZ.
9) napped some more
10) ate lots of jelly, yoghurt, and watties very special creamy pumpkin soup, kindly brought to me by my minions boyfriend and girlfriend.
11) whined. a lot. even cried. went a little bit crazy.