- Mood:slightly amused
- Music:http://gvsbchris.com/13 Bros (edit).mp3
Thanks to all of you that wished me well after my apicectomy. My face is still swollen and bruised, and I'm walking around pretending I've had a nose job. But apart from that, all appears fine. I'm even back on solids. ;)
On that positive note, I'd like to wish you all...
And all the best for 2007!
On that positive note, I'd like to wish you all...
And all the best for 2007!
- Mood:Holidays
on the twelfth day of Christmas... ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1)
celie had a hole drilled through the left nasal cavity, via the mouth. Five injections of local anaesthetic. Three big stitches. 15 amoxycillin tablets. One bottle of nose drops. And a hell of a lot of pain and plenty of blood loss.
:(
QUESTION: Why don't hospitals put pictures on the ceiling? If they did it would give the patient something other than striplights to focus on.
celie had a hole drilled through the left nasal cavity, via the mouth. Five injections of local anaesthetic. Three big stitches. 15 amoxycillin tablets. One bottle of nose drops. And a hell of a lot of pain and plenty of blood loss.:(
QUESTION: Why don't hospitals put pictures on the ceiling? If they did it would give the patient something other than striplights to focus on.
- Mood:apicectomy
I know I’m a bit late updating you on my first trip to Japan. It already feels like a long time ago to me. But late is better than never, right?
Well, to summarise: I had an amazing time. I even extended my stay for an extra week. 31 days are obviously not enough. I intend to go back next year.
Highlights have to include:
Cycling all the way between two of Japan's major islands, Honshu and Shikoku, via what is now perhaps Japan's premier cycle route: the Shimanami Kaido. “Shima” means island and “nami” means waves, and the name is appropriate: you cycle across several of the former and directly above the latter, skipping across the water like a two-wheeled stone, via a series of spectacular, and dizzying, bridges. The journey is approximately 77km, and was more of a personal challenge, than anything other; I have a chronic fear of heights and didn’t think I’d manage the bridges. For a little more detail you can view this photoset over at my flickr.
Spending two days on Naoshima: Japan’s “Art Island”. Naoshima is a small fishing island off the southern coast of Japan in the Seto Inland Sea. During the 1990s, the Benesse Corporation, a Japanese textbook publisher, partnered with architect Tadao Ando to create Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a series of spectacular contemporary art museums designed around the theme of "Nature and Art." Since then, the island continues to consolidate its relationship with contemporary art.
The experience of the Chichu Museum alone is something set apart from any other place I've experienced of its ilk; staff adorned in white suits straight from Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" confiscate your camera (strictly no photography) and let in limited numbers of people at any one time. You are told to not touch Ando's architecture, as that is also art, constituting a whole with the work it houses. Sometimes you even have to take your shoes of to go into rooms. Everything inside is sublime, from James Turrell installations, to Monet's Water Lilies presented in a room laid with 20 x 20 x 20 mm white mosaic marble stones; it's Disney art spectacle for adults. And for me, the reverence was slightly disturbing, as much as it was enthralling.
It goes without saying that feeding the deer in Nara is a highlight. I must've spent more on their food this day than I did my own.
Likewise, the people I met were special.
For some of the rest, you can see snapshots here.
Well, to summarise: I had an amazing time. I even extended my stay for an extra week. 31 days are obviously not enough. I intend to go back next year.
Highlights have to include:
Cycling all the way between two of Japan's major islands, Honshu and Shikoku, via what is now perhaps Japan's premier cycle route: the Shimanami Kaido. “Shima” means island and “nami” means waves, and the name is appropriate: you cycle across several of the former and directly above the latter, skipping across the water like a two-wheeled stone, via a series of spectacular, and dizzying, bridges. The journey is approximately 77km, and was more of a personal challenge, than anything other; I have a chronic fear of heights and didn’t think I’d manage the bridges. For a little more detail you can view this photoset over at my flickr.
Spending two days on Naoshima: Japan’s “Art Island”. Naoshima is a small fishing island off the southern coast of Japan in the Seto Inland Sea. During the 1990s, the Benesse Corporation, a Japanese textbook publisher, partnered with architect Tadao Ando to create Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a series of spectacular contemporary art museums designed around the theme of "Nature and Art." Since then, the island continues to consolidate its relationship with contemporary art.
The experience of the Chichu Museum alone is something set apart from any other place I've experienced of its ilk; staff adorned in white suits straight from Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" confiscate your camera (strictly no photography) and let in limited numbers of people at any one time. You are told to not touch Ando's architecture, as that is also art, constituting a whole with the work it houses. Sometimes you even have to take your shoes of to go into rooms. Everything inside is sublime, from James Turrell installations, to Monet's Water Lilies presented in a room laid with 20 x 20 x 20 mm white mosaic marble stones; it's Disney art spectacle for adults. And for me, the reverence was slightly disturbing, as much as it was enthralling.
It goes without saying that feeding the deer in Nara is a highlight. I must've spent more on their food this day than I did my own.
Likewise, the people I met were special.
For some of the rest, you can see snapshots here.
- Music:http://www.earlabs.org/label/LC/LC010.htm
I spent today rolling in hay and picking clouds.
For all those suffering the heat... imagine how crazy this slug must've felt before being baked.
- Mood:On a path to hell
THE GOOD:
Rediscovering my childhood with a bottle of 'Bubble Magic' that I found in a post office in Marple Bridge for 25p. It was to be a gift for my niece, but I ended up opening it, and spending 45 mins blowing bubbles by myself. I highly recommend you ignore anyone that tells you you're too old and leave them in a maelstrom of soapy spheres. You won't regret it!
( THE NOT SO GOOD )
Rediscovering my childhood with a bottle of 'Bubble Magic' that I found in a post office in Marple Bridge for 25p. It was to be a gift for my niece, but I ended up opening it, and spending 45 mins blowing bubbles by myself. I highly recommend you ignore anyone that tells you you're too old and leave them in a maelstrom of soapy spheres. You won't regret it!
( THE NOT SO GOOD )
In other news:
I'm completely hooked on a Finnish folk song, Leva's Polka.mp3, by Loituma. It's crazily addictive and has me singing gibberish.
New nephew last week. That's the third off-spring in the same number of years. I really don't know how they do it; I was run ragged on Saturday.
