Heh. One of my favorite days with billytea was cruising around Stow Lake in a paddleboat while Emmett peppered him with questions about the most poisonous creatures in every phylum.

I love condors! How cool!

Fentanyl, a powerful and fast-acting opium-based medication, is used often by hospitals for anesthesia. It is considered 80 times stronger than morphine and

I was given fentanyl for my knee surgery and I was so high that I told my caregiver friends to go home (they were supposed to bring me home from hospital and stay with me 24 hours) and I hobbled around all day, making sandwiches for myself and feeling fine. Around 4 in the afternoon I started to doubt that they'd even opened me up for surgery and I called the surgeon's office demanding to know why they had sent me home with no surgery. The nurse assured me that indeed I'd had surgery. I felt nothing.

I really, really, really paid for that stupidity the next morning, lemmetellyou. Fentanyl is some strong ass shit, but it doesn't last two days. Ouch. I was much better at following directions and letting others help me a month later for my shoulder surgery.

Happy Independance Day, Merkins!

um, I only know one definition for merkin, and I wouldn't use it to describe a friend. Am I missing something?

I have indeed been to Sucre: see blog entry [link] Wow, it's been almost exactly a year.

Actually, the rose and violet chocolates are being sold at Rouse's (on Tchoup, at least)and Whole Foods, which makes temptation very hard to overcome. I will, however, endeavor to try Jilli's favorites in the near future and report back.

Merkins='Murricans?

um, I only know one definition for merkin, and I wouldn't use it to describe a friend. Am I missing something?

It's an old-timey way of mocking how someone with an American accent says "American." I saw it a lot in Victorian-era British stuff when I was doing a research project in college. I don't think there's any link to the other meaning of merkin. (I think whoever came up with this must have been talking to people from Baltimore, since the accent that turns Maryland into Merlin seems like the one that would turn American into Merkin.)

How fun, bt. Glad you had such a lovely day.

I went back to bed for a couple of hours, and am now up again.

Can I take a poll? St.W said at the end of the night Saturday that he'd call me, and he hasn't. It's only been a day and a half, but I'm chafing and feeling neurotic and yeah, I'd like to see him tonight. He assured me that he had a good time, despite the shenanigans, but like I said, I'm feeling neurotic. If I sent him a text along the lines of "Did you find a good place to watch fireworks tonight?" is that a) a nice subtle opening for him to invite me along, if he wants to or b) passive aggressive and needy? If he's having second thoughts, I'd rather know now, you know?

My reasoning is, if I text him, it obviates any possibility that I'm having second thoughts, and the onus is on him to respond or not, and I think I'll be able to be productive and distract myself. But I wanted another opinion or three... feeling the need for a little hivemind objectivity.

I think that the text is passive agressive. I might be more aggressive and say "I'm going to X to watch the fireworks, let me know if you want to come (or have a better place)"

But then, I'm single, so what the hell do I know.

I think you should text him, it seems like a reasonable thing to say/do. I don't think it's passive aggressive or needy.