Ugh, what a day, Scrappy! Sucks so hard to be sick alone.

I am very sorry for myself, so there's that.

All in all, small beans, but I'm a reasonably competent, privileged and together adult, and I've never done this shit before, how the fuck am I supposed to know?

Ack. I had written you a long paragraph about things to expect based on my experience but then didn't post it because I worried I'd be bringing you down or worry you unduly. But one of the things I wrote about was this kind of stuff. This shit is so routine for surgeons and medical staff that they have completely forgotten how patients experience things. So lots of stuff is left unsaid and if you haven't experienced it before or heard from folks who have, you often don't even know which questions to ask.

Congratulations, billytea. Also congrats to msbelle for water. Water is life.

Tanked my chem exam, I'm sure. Have one "quiz" and the final left. Final is cumulative so I am really up Excrement Creek without a certain implement. Can't find a tutor I can trust/afford and this class makes me feel so shitty about myself that the procrastination is on a level Homer could write about.

David, I have some bad news for you: Product 19 is discontinued .

It's Saturday and I've already been up for an hour. Dog jumped on the bed and me and then threw up. And I have an unnatural amount of grading to finish. And I have to go supervise a field trip on a Saturday.

Does anyone else mix their cereals? Like a whole bowl of frosted mini wheats sounds boring, but a whole bowl of the vanilla almond whatever sounds excessive, so a mix is nice. Just me?

Oof, no. I think the idea of things sogging at different rates is throwing me.

Product 19! I used to love that (though it is definitely one you have to eat fast to avoid the sog).

I rarely eat cereal and the idea of having more than one box of cereal quietly going stale on my shelf is more alarming than a bowl of mixed cereals is intriguing.

I also often eat my cereal dry because I am usually out of milk (I don't maintain a minimum inventory of it in my fridge the way I do butter, for example. It's not a staple in my world)

That's a lot to carry, Scrappy! I'm sorry.

I never understood why people put cereal in milk, I've eaten it dry all my life. We were never big cereal eaters in my family, anyway, maybe my mother didn't want to deal with bowls and pouring and all that. We must have eaten breakfast before school, and we had milk in glasses, but I think it was more toast and butter or jam and the like. I have no memory of breakfasts.

I ate a lot of frozen mini pizzas for breakfast in high school because I didn't eat eggs and I needed the protein. And wanted something hot. Somehow, frozen pizza in the toaster oven was the simplest breakfast.

I like cereal with soy milk or rice milk but I have to make a special effort to buy those. I've just never been a milk drinker.

You need a different alarm clock, Kat.