-t! Are you going to be in Palo Alto from time to time? We should do something about that if so.

Does anyone know how to refer to what we call sweet potato in Jamaica:: [link] ? I want to know if it's available here, and where to go look for it, but google is remarkably unhelpful so far.

Interestingly, at one restaurant, if you order sweet potato fries, you get what Americans expect, but if you order sweet potato as a side (which I sure did--I gorged on almost as much sweet potato as I did plantain tarts), you get the yellow/green variety baked up.

I guess you just get used to the contradictions.

But--sweet potato pudding. I forget how much I miss that.

Did I mention I asked the last nurse about the dent in my head, and he said it looked like there was a healed laceration on one side? I still don't see how that translates to dent, or what my muscles are exactly doing back there, but is that the scar from when I fainted back in the day? That was about 4 years ago. HOW COULD I NOT KNOW? How could barbers, and friends who shaved my head, and doctors who worked on me not mention "Hey! There's a bit of a hole back here!"

And I have no idea what to tell the barber when I next go in.

Maybe? Next time I get scheduled down there I'll let you know as early as I can. It all sems pretty random tightnow, but theres probably a pattern to it. Because it's out of my area the company provides a ride there and back, so I'd have to figure something out to get hanging out time, but that can probably be done.

Woohoo I am home! And looking at 5 days off, which I can sure use. Now to eat dinner and maybe take a hot bath and sleep as long as possible...

And I have no idea what to tell the barber when I next go in.

"Could you shave a circle around that to make a kind of target effect?"

I HAVE A FUCKING HOLE IN MY HEAD.

There's no way that's not going to weird me out. Problem is, every time I check if it's still there--it's really tender and spikes a headache.

But how can you not check if the hole is still in your head?

Dawn is on Criminal Minds, all dark-haired and womanly. Yoinks.

Wait--I thought that no one knew what In Your Eyes was about. Huh. Well, You're So Vain is still totally about Beatty.

I HAVE A FUCKING HOLE IN MY HEAD.

Technically it's more like a hole in your hair. It's not like random four year olds can poke a finger into your brain-stem.

It's not like random four year olds can poke a finger into your brain-stem.

Might help the whole "Implanting shit in your brain" plan, though!

Might help the whole "Implanting shit in your brain" plan, though!

We're just looking at the upside for you, ita!

You're practically pre-trepanned.

meara, yay for increasingly good vision and easy surgery! I am now interested in doing this myself. My mom had it done for cataracts and was amazed afterward that she didn't even need glasses. My vision might be too bad, though. What's the actual name of the surgery so I can google it?

ita !, I must thank you for recommending True Lemon. I'm just using it to get myself to stop drinking soda, and it's working, so, thanks.

Technically it's more like a hole in your hai

No, it's not a hole in my hair. My hair was 2mm long. It's a 1/4 inch tender dent in the back of one side of my skull. It has nothing to do with my hair, other than work out how to get the to, I dunno. Leaving it full won't even things out, not at the lengths I wear my hair.

There is a simple explanation, I'm sure, for why it feels like bone (with some muscle over) all around it, and *in* it. I can't work out how this could be a swelling if everything's hard. Not scar hard, bone hard.

Anyway--I'll leave it in the hands of my doctor, and he'll touch it, and I'll want to throw up again. It's a great nausea button. Everyone should get one installed.

I'm just using it to get myself to stop drinking soda, and it's working, so, thanks.

It's weird how easy it was to just stop drinking the other stuff--do you have a carbonator? Because that's transparent. I want to carry one in my bag next to my tea kit. I'll be serving your beverages today--would you like hot or cold, mmm?