I find having tonsillitis strange. Despite the constant coughing and the occasional phlegm, nothing else seems to happen. Sure, my breathing does seem a bit more restricted than when I’m healthy and not having a panic attack, but most of the time, it’s a minor discomfort a few times every year. Also, it’s easily fixed with luminous pink erythromycin tablets (henceforth known as the pink pills, because I have troubles spelling that word).
In late November, after being given the pink pills once again, my doctor told me to come back in two weeks (after the pills ran out) so he could assess whether or not I needed to have them removed or not.
Two weeks passed, the pink pills depleted, and I forgot about the bits of tissue in the back of my throat for another week.
These tissues appeared to be unhappy about being forgotten, and decided to remind me of their presence by becoming inflamed again the week after.
You know what that means? MOAR PINK PILLS.
Now, I have to wait for another two weeks to find out if I will join the ranks of my living family members, each of whom no longer have their tonsils. >.>
Lesson learned: When the doctor tells you to go back within two weeks, GO BACK IN TWO WEEKS. Your tonsils seem to have feelings. They do not like being forgotten about, and will get angry at you if you decide to go back on the third week instead.
Today, I got a friend request on Last.fm from a user named Socratesv1. I’ve been using the website since 2006 to keep up with my changing music taste, and occasionally get friend requests from friends and/or people who have a similar music taste to me. The username didn’t seem familiar to me, but we did share a “very high music compatibility”. The music we had in common was Imogen Heap, S Club 7, ABBA, Owl City and OK Go.
@Synoiz sent me a CD of ABBA’s greatest hits for my birthday yesterday (because I realised I owned no ABBA music ;_;), and this means that all I’ve been listening to today is that. This probably explains why we’re “very high” on music compatibility.
[I tend to listen to "new" music obsessively until I get sick of the sound of it.]
Anyway, I soon realised that I *did* know the mysterious Socratesv1, and that he was a friend of a friend of mine who I had spoken to on Skype before. So I logged on, and we talked about the music we had in common (quickly skipping over the S Club 7). Soon, conversation turned to my obsessive listening habits of the day… Which I quickly diverted by picking a random song I liked, to try and make it seem like I listen to other music too.
This song just happened to be You Will Love This Song, which I promptly sent him a link to. He seemed to like it, despite my annoyance at not being able to sing the phrase “You said you love it when all the words in a song move really fast and your ears have to choose just one little phrase to hold on to” in the song fast enough.
He swore that he could, and that he could actually record a new version of the song for me just to prove it.
I called his bluff (because I like this song a lot).
And so, this “challenge” of sorts began.
Alex (this friend of a friend) says that he’ll record me a version of the song by the new year, in the same style, playing multiple instruments (as a one-man band).
This is going to be awesome.
[I wrote this blog post to remind myself to get around to meeting him in January and glare at/glomp him for failing/finishing the song.]
Well, for another 10 minutes, anyway. Thanks to everyone on Plurk, Facebook and Twitter that sent me birthday wishes! [I'll extend this post later with everyone's names.] This may be slightly due to the messages I sent out at 00:00 announcing that the 14th of December had started, but they still count, right?
And now, my birthday’s going to be over for another year. Boo.
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