(double shudder)

Spaghetti with meat sauce, some kind of salad with cucumbers, possibly garlic bread. Not low-carb pasta, I am afraid to buy that kind. I will worship at the altar of the lc foods tomorrow, when I make some peach Jello.

New mix of pollens (oh, oak - my favorite) today, and I am overwhelmed. So far this year, I haven’t had to take anything, but today, I admit defeat. My wastebasket is overflowing with tissues. If I don’t medicate now, I won’t be able to breathe tonight when I try to sleep. Whatever I take will change my personality, never for the better.

Realistic images transform into abstraction via reflections in water.

If you choose nitrous, you won’t have to worry about thinking. You will feel good enough to discuss your fear of dentistry with the oral surgeon, who is about to ask you to bite down on something. That something will bring enormous pressure to the tooth on the other side, the one that might also harbor infection.

Soon you will experience tremendous swelling and pain on that side, which will necessitate another root canal. They will be nice enough to wait a few weeks till the swelling goes down before proceeding. The second oral surgeon is happy to talk about the golden trout he catches and releases somewhere in the mountains. He is heading there again, right after he is done with this procedure.

If you have memorized more than 800 stock symbols, now is the time to stream the ticker. When that’s done, and the dentist is not through, and you lost money on all 800 stocks, you can mentally calculate the amount of each loss in preparation for next year’s taxes.

Not bad, no sugar buzz, of course, and can’t quite finish it. If I had to choose between this and a bowl of sugar-free Jello, I think I would opt to go hungry. There is a half-gallon of this stuff, so I must get creative. More later, unfortunately.

Luckily, we managed to see it last weekend.

Uh-oh. The asterisk denotes ingredients that may have a ‘laxative effect’.

It’s 68°, Friday of a trying week workwise. I need a little something. It is not a good day for gastric distress.

A story from Native American Lore.

A syndrome associated with coronary bypass surgery.

(shudder)

Surprising song of the whales, story from National Geographic News.