Marching On..

It’s a damn shame I haven’t taken more time to write while my mouth has decided not to cooperate these past few days (see: lockjaw). I can’t blame the poor guy either, after months of drills and prodding, it’s finally given up on opening. Well, at least it’s keeping me out of a lot of trouble as my mouth is finally silenced…although sometimes I think it forgets that I need REAL food! Tired of soups, straws, sauces, smoothies, snacks, shakes, and all that non-food etc,etc. I WANT SOME MEAT. And what’s the deal with all these juice joints…they’re bars for chicks (you pay as much for a cocktail) and you’re not getting drunk. Injustice says the puffy cheeked midwesterner. Wisdom teeth extractions. Think twice about it, folks. Right now the entire left side of my cheek is still “swollen”. I headed up to Beverly Hills yesterday to see my oral surgeon (think: Dr. 90210, with a view overlooking the Hollywood sign..it’s surreal) and he informed me a large blood clot had formed inside my cheek and that I should stay on my antibiotics. I’m a walking blood clot. I hope it doesn’t spread to my brain.

The only good thing about the whole ordeal was I got to do what every good Los Angelesian dreams of…driving around in the sun at ridiuclous speeds in the Hollywood Hills….and high as a kite on VicodinJ. Come on! The celebrities do it all the time! Well, maybe I was a bit more tame than that but Jam and I did have an awesome drive along the ocean and Mulholland drive. I will say that I’ve been out here for 1.5 years and am still in awe of the landscape (not the peopleJ). The palm trees agaisnt the snow-covered mountains. The excess of sun. The idiot in an accident screaming at the guy in front of me. The extended middle finger coming through a sun-roofed Mercedes (See: SoCal Roadrage) At times it seems exotic, other times you realize you’ve become numb to it all..and that’s scary, esp. when you think about moving away from the velvet sun that shines on us all here.. I think this is the best time to visit Southern California. It’s green, it’s warm (not too hot), great air visibility, etc. Digs, you’ve picked a good time to come!

Anyway, while I’m jumping around all scatter-brained I’d like to thank the wanker in the UK who has been using my credit card! $553.68 in fraud! Thank god I found it when I did! GBP tend to add up quickly in dollars. At least it wasn’t as bad as last year’s heisting over my credit card digits, but still it’s a pain. I work for the Government so I deal with bureaucracy all day at work..when it invades my personal life it makes me want to scream! I can’t win, either some pommie joker or a Turkish rat calls from China, needing my credit card information for more trips. I’ve just accepted I won’t be balancing anything soon. How stupid of a system do we have when we all can’t live without our credit cards and there is so little security in place to protect us from fraud. It’s ridiculous. It’s a free for all out here in California. I see people digging through the trash just to get some digits. It’s easy money. I CANT WAIT until some HOTSHOT loses MILLIONS from CREDIT CARD FRAUD. I think only then will we start seeing some serious measures taken.


Anyway, I’m back on the work wagon today, need to get some stuff sorted out. I probably should have stayed home for another day, but I get so restless sitting around. I’ve never spent this much time in SoCal and not had some trip planned or some event to go to. Now I just walk around, unable to speak with this huge jaw and people think I’m unemployed and feel sorry for me. That’s nice actually;)