Acid Reflux

At two in the morning, I sprang from bed, struggling to untangle myself from my blankets, to rush to the toilet, trying to keep from vomiting over everything while trying to avoid swallowing it back down.

I have had this coming to me. For a lot of months - maybe over a year? - I have been eating and downing cokes as though I were fresh back at home from college, still in my twenties. Yesterday was not atypical: a sweet breakfast with a coke, frozen pizza for lunch with two cokes, and two cokes with my dinner and good quantity of candy. In recent weeks I have wondered how I have been able to get away with this. I knew I shouldn’t be pushing it, but there did not seem to be any need to restrain myself.

Now there is a need.

After rinsing out my mouth and brushing my teeth, I got out my box of Pepcid A/C. I was not terribly surprised to see that it expired last June, almost a year ago. I had been free of this problem for so long.

Celebrities and Stuff

"Seventh Woods DUNK Of The YEAR!!! 15 Year Old With The #1 Play On ESPN Sportscenter!" (Watch on YouTube)

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Kay

She's here. Kay. They seem to be accelerating their relationship again.

What can I do about it? I'm mainly worried about Vic's visit. I am afraid that I cannot count on Pop's discretion not to have her stay over while he is staying over. Rather, I suspect he relishes the idea.

I am seriously thinking about sleeping in the car, or at least spending the night in the car. It is summertime, and I have that to play to my advantage.

Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova

David Brooks gives us a charming elegy to the love of literature, and of love through literature, expressing also a wistfulness that we are perhaps no longer that kind of culture that treasures and lives through poetry and the great books.

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Friday

It has grown cloudy this afternoon and feels like rain. Checking the weather, there is not the least chance of that. Indeed, tomorrow we are expected to see the summery nineties again, perhaps this time to stay, now that we are in May. For now, though, I am going to have to put on my t-shirt. It feels a little cool.

The Natural World

by jpmckenna - Back from Central California on Flickr.

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