Wait for it, wait for it …

No, not yet.

The death of the one-eared man

So, the flu from hell cleared up about a week ago, but I still don’t have the use of my left ear and I occasionally have sinus pain in the ear or in my left forehead.

When the phone stopped ringing today, I finally went to the doctor, where I was given antibiotics. Things have immediately started moving around in my head — of all the parts of my body, my skull is the place I’m least interested in having things move around — and things have started to get … drippy again.

I expect the next few days to be very gross, but to be able to hear at the end again, which is good, because my left ear is my phone ear.

The benefits of moving

So, in the process of moving from the duplex to our new house — sort of a fractal process, since there’s less to do after each trip between the two places, but it still seems infinite — I’ve rediscovered a pair of brand-new jeans that somehow got stuck into cold storage, my old NATO and Miss America press passes and a Rolodex card with Neil Gaiman’s home phone number on it. (Probably long out of date. I’m not calling to check.)

The original move from North Hollywood was a tough one, and there wasn’t a lot of time to sort and purge as a result, so this is the first time I’m able to go through some of this stuff that’s been stuck at the bottom of boxes in the back of closets for three years.

Grandmother Katherine Memorial Day

My super-cool Grandmother Ekmark (the namesake for my brother’s oldest daughter) would have been 93 today. We’re having ice cream tonight in her honor.

America’s obsession with pets

I’m still clawing my way back to health after the flu, so the pace of posts here will continue to be slow for a bit. (The whole moving-to-a-new-house thing won’t make it faster, either.)

But here’s a good (although long) article I read the other day: A Pampered Pet Nation.

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