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Tonight It's Wearing The jaw and the lips still tingle quite a bit. I look in the mirror every day and it doesn't seem to be changing, but people at work say the swelling is noticeably less. The reality is, I guess, this will improve over time and time in this case will be weeks. The worst part, certainly, is over, but this has aftereffects that last.
I received the first part of my order for a Photoflex backdrop
This is not a good night to be writing. I have just returned from the kitchen after taking another one of the pain pills, which work well enough, I suppose, but the teeth keep aching and the pain pills keep dwindling. You're not supposed to take these things forever, of course, they emphasize that on the news and in clever in little pamphlets published by the government. Tomorrow marks five full weeks since the operation and these teeth and cheeks and gums just keep on singing. Five weeks, fifty seven acts of what is turning out to be an interminable opera. And I'm complaining. Tonight I shall try for a longer night's sleep. Ally McBeal is on the television right now and although I like the writing, the hippity skip jumping between madness and cunning can be wearing. Tonight it's wearing. |
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today and read the instructions. This is essentially a square aluminum
frame that is suspended from an arm mounted on a tripod that holds a
canvas backdrop used primarily for portraits. The instructions say it
is 7 feet tall, four inches taller, as it happens, than the height of
my ceiling. Another reason to look for another place. Maybe I can shoot
portraits out on the patio in the meantime.