(awesome happenings -or- sick as a dolphin)

Yesterday was easily the easiest dentist appointment of my life. The only curious thing was when the dentist asked me whether my wisdom tooth had ever bothered me. It never has, but suddenly started to last night. They must have disturbed the gum behind my tooth. At dinner last night i chewed through most of the offending gum, but it's still sore. Somewhere in there I realized that that's not an interesting story. Personally I just like the prescient question "Has that wisdom tooth ever given you any trouble?"

My mother and I were at the local liquor store buying Jaeger and Red Bull for Jaeger bombs. We ran into Sharon Wilson, who is the mother of Halle Wilson (of 5th grade fame) and cuts my mother's hair. She said she had only recently started drinking when Halle bought her a drink during a visit to Ohio State. Yesterday, she was buying cheap vodka to mix with orange pop.

I felt better than I have recently while working out this morning. I started slow on the bike then moved up to running. I read the first half of Daisy Miller on the bike. To cool off after I played basketball for a while outside. I was thinking that I would have oatmeal for breakfast, but somewhere in there I started making oatmeal cookies instead. I got to the part where I add baking soda and couldn't find any. Then i remembered the great thanksgiving fire of 2007, which my mother had extinguished with ... baking soda. apparently it hadn't been replaced. I ended up going next door (still sweaty, in my running clothes) to ask the neighbors that I don't know that well if i could have some. They were having their water heater replaced. I got that taken care of without further incident and provided amusement for the neighbors (my favorite! fun & profit!) Back home, i continued my doublebatch without incident until the oats. Unfortunately, I didn't notice until too late that my mother was keeping a strange health food mixture in the oat container. So we have sunflower seeds in the cookies too.

In the afternoon I went out to Oberlin and hung out with Sean. His sister Juliet is getting married, and Sean told me how his new favorite thing is weddings, by which he means getting drunk for free and dancing. In any case, it was a good opportunity for me to use the "all the world's men mourn" line.