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After the swelling in my face went down, I noticed that there was still a swelling at the top of my tooth. I assumed it would go down as my tooth healed. Well, it hasn't. In fact, I think it's getting bigger. I'm going to call the surgeon Friday if it doesn't get better. I remember last time, penicillin (which is what I got this time) didn't work on the infection, which is why it got so bad. I live in fear of a repeat of that experience.

Why is instructional television so relaxing at 4:30am?

I just watched about 20 minutes of "Biology: The Science of Life" on Channel 13. It was about protists. I was surprised that I remembered so much from biology--most of this would've been 9th grade. Mrs. Carman, 2nd period and alternate 1st periods, 600 wing. In fact, I remembered enough to know that they simplified protist reproduction. Basically, their version of it: asexual reproduction = clones, sexual reproduction = exchange of DNA. And of course, clones aren't always perfectly genetically identical: there's always the possibility of mutation, ensuring some genetic diversity. (If mutations never occurred, of course, evolution would be impossible. :-) ) It's been 12 years, though, so I couldn't give much more detail. I did remember what amoebae, paramecia, and Eugena are, though. Go me. Biology was always my strongest science subject, probably because it's the most verbal and least mathematical of the sciences.

I knew I had a gynecologist's appointment at 18:30 on December 4th.

For some reason, I thought that was this coming Tuesday. I don't know why, but I did. I realized my mistake when my Palm beeped at me 5 minutes ago.

Luckily, the office said he was running really late anyway so I didn't feel bad about screwing up his schedule. ;-) Rescheduled for the 16th--it's just the annual checkup, but I need to have it done...