Rememberances of Pains/Pleasures Past

[mlerules]

Not sure why 'tis that my anticipation/rememberance of pain tends to be worse then the real thing while my memory/anticipation of pleasure tends to be less good/intense than the real thing. Which isn't to say I remember pleasure anything less than oh-so-fondly (understatement). But the thing itself covers so much more than the mental Kodak moment. Still, I'd rather have it this way than vice versa. Managed to forget/fail to remember 'bout today's foot wart thingie (NOTE to self: Plantar = foot while Planter's = peanuts) 'til over the w'end when I glanced at my calendar, then again 'til last night when I took it out again to see what the week had in store for me and realized I couldn't sleep in as long as I'd like after all this morn. Put off worrying 'til approx 1/2 hour before the appt, then got off on a mild-mid-level dread. I'm not into pain. I've got a fairly high pain tolerance, but I remember back when I had two warts (one on each foot) removed one afternoon at my pediatrician's office yonks ago. The shots (multiple into each foot) to numb the area HURT like the dickens (Dickens? And where'd this expression come from, anyway? Oh: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dic3.htm). So I managed to imagine far more pain than I knew 'twas likely to be...'specially as it turned out that the podiatrist today only scraped it, measured it, and discussed the options for treatment. I'm opting to have the whole dangblamed thing out at once. Fark topical applications that could take months and may result in it coming back later! Cut it and flame it all out at once - even tho the smell of burning flesh is really quite icky. Turns out they can do it while I'm mildly sedated w/an IV of some combo of sedative and muscle/brain relaxant. It means someone's gotta drive me there (or at least back), but I'd prefer this to the multiple thick needle jabs into the ball of my foot when I'm fully aware of the process. Won't happen 'til next month (October) in any event. On the Yum side, my memory of the 5-spice truffle, while good, was far less incredible than the actual thing, experienced again last night. Mouth waters at anticipation of more next month...IF they have 'em. No lavendar this time, mebbe next time.

Meanwhile, MUST figure out what I'm gonna do for my b-day. Have already changed plans once (fetish trumps fresh air). Now have no plans to change, really, but should prolly make plans and tell folks whassup or not. I think I wanna fly North Sun morn (9/11) and do the trad'l Solano Stroll in Albany, and mebbe catch BRMC in SF on Mon (9/12), and then dine at Chez Panisse on Tu (9/13), and catch up w/friends & fambily, it all this is possible. Dunno what I'll do quite yet. Am figuring it out NOW.