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Surgery took a little longer than expected due to the discovery of a deviated septum -- which Dr Patel went ahead and fixed, while he was in there.
But some of Oreta's sinuses below, behind and between her eyes were all but completely blocked by polyps. Dr Patel is very happy with the outcome, and it should leave Oreta able to breathe better than she has in years. It should also positively affect her sense of smell, which has been missing in action for years as well.
We don't know what the anaesthetic was, but it must have been pretty good. Two hours after surgery, Oreta was still groggy and unable to wake fully.
As of now, she is much more like her old self, and very appreciative of everyone's well-wishes. So am I. Thank you, one and all.
- Mood:
happy
"The Wild One"
"Tea for Two"
"One Two Three"
"Nineteen Eighty-Four"
"Slaughterhouse-Five"
"The Deep Six"
"Return of the Secaucus Seven"
"Dinner at Eight"
"Secret Agent X-9"
"Five and Ten"
"Ocean's Eleven"
"The Dirty Dozen" (So I cheated. Pickin's are slim.)
- Mood:
bored
- Music:ittle Island - Michae
- Music:I Will - Alison Krauss
I say ... and you think ... ?- Log :: Lincoln Logs
- Plaything :: Toy
- Broom :: Roomba
- Heels :: High?
- Smoke in :: the boys' room?
- Guests :: be seated
- Attraction :: Magnetic
- Shiny :: Firefly
- Risked :: Everything
- Velvet :: Blue
- Mood: calm
I say ... and you think ... ?- Road trip :: Beach
- Pool hall :: Trouble with a capital T
- Extraordinary :: Gentlemen
- Jackson :: When Phil Harris was the band leader on the Jack Benny radio show, that's what he used to call Jack.
- Heartfelt :: Thanks
- Wet :: Pavement
- Strangle :: jangle ("It's a strangle-jangle Christmas" by Charles Manson...)
- .com :: .org
- Touched :: in the haid
- Insipid :: flaccid
- Mood:
late
I say ... and you think ... ?- Studio :: Ghibli
- Meetup :: Didn't we already have a word for that? What makes it different from a "meet"? or a "meeting"?
- Ostrich :: Fantasia
- Jokes :: Are accordions the American bagpipes?
- Estranged :: Lovers
- Random :: Association
- Slap :: [see below...]
- Hotel room :: Did you ever notice that the higher the base price of the room, the more "additional charges" the hotel finds to slap you with on top of that? And the higher those charges are? I think being a paying guest in a hotel should be worth free parking, but most downtown hotels don't seem to agree. I also find it curious that Krystal and Starbucks can afford to give away wi-fi, but Marriott and Hyatt can't.
- Inscribe :: Monogram
- Polar :: Opposites
- Mood: amused
I say ... and you think ... ?- Mourning :: Misspent Youth
- Approval :: Egoboost
- Lotion :: Suntan
- Perspire :: "Glow"
- Language :: Skills
- Defection :: [I got nothin']
- Play :: Script
- Graphic :: Novel
- Spicy :: Detective Stories
- In love :: Can't Help Falling
- Mood: calm
I say ... and you think ... ?- Pain :: Nerve
- Lego :: my eggo
- Trooper :: Super
- Flicker :: Candle light
- Character :: Assassination
- Determined :: [I got nothin']
- Wing :: Nut
- Control :: Panel
- Automatic :: Transmission
- Yeah :: Yeah Yeah
- Mood: relieved
I say ... and you think ... ?- Carpet :: Bomb
- William :: Tell
- Oh! :: Klahoma
- Board game :: like Monopoly
- Sunlight :: Orange juice
- Delay :: [I got nothin']
- Winner :: takes it all
- Concubine :: Nihao my...
- Comatose :: 3 a.m.
- Satisfy :: Snickers
- Mood:
blah
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Bold those you have read.
2) *Star the ones you loved.
3) Italicise those you plan on reading.
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- * Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Bible
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- * The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- * A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
- * Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I heard Orson Welles' radio version, will that do?)
So they count the whole Harry Potter series as one book, eh?
Well, 22 out of 100 isn't too bad.
- Mood:
curious
Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test...
Joe Normal
43 % Nerd, 39% Geek, 43% Dork
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored less than half in all three, earning you the title of: Joe Normal.
This is not to say that you don't have some Nerd, Geek or Dork inside of you--we all do, and you can see the percentages you have right above. This is just to say that none of those qualities stand out so much as to define you. Sure, you enjoy an episode of Star Trek now and again, and yeah, you kinda enjoyed a few classes back in the day. And, once in a while, you stumble while walking down the street even though there was nothing there to cause you to trip. But, for the most part, you look and act fairly typically, and aren't much of an outcast.
I'd say there's a fair chance someone asked you to take this test. In any event, fairly normal.
Congratulations!
If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback!
Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Professional Wrestling
Love & Sexuality
America/Politics
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored less than half in all three, earning you the title of: Joe Normal.
This is not to say that you don't have some Nerd, Geek or Dork inside of you--we all do, and you can see the percentages you have right above. This is just to say that none of those qualities stand out so much as to define you. Sure, you enjoy an episode of Star Trek now and again, and yeah, you kinda enjoyed a few classes back in the day. And, once in a while, you stumble while walking down the street even though there was nothing there to cause you to trip. But, for the most part, you look and act fairly typically, and aren't much of an outcast.
I'd say there's a fair chance someone asked you to take this test. In any event, fairly normal.
Congratulations!
If you enjoyed this test, I would love the feedback!
Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Professional Wrestling
Love & Sexuality
America/Politics
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
- Mood: chipper
I say ... and you think ... ?- Cups :: of sugar
- Brilliant :: Hue
- Disobey :: Authoritah
- Abstain :: "No Comment"
- Daily :: Planet
- You make me :: Feel Like a Natural Woman... (Huh?)
- Hurl :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skasper/18
04715451/ - Intensify :: Turn it up!
- Fuck! :: Allan Sherman used to say that this word is the reason we call all obscenities "four-letter words". It doesn't often show up in my vocabulary, written or spoken -- not because it particularly offends me, but because I'm too literal-minded.
- Race :: card
- Mood: chipper
I say ... and you think ... ?- Take :: Five
- 350 :: I got nothin', although a quick web search reveals that this is the latest publicity move by the Global Warming people. At least this one is based on some measurable number.
- Stand :: up
- Raspberry :: Beret
- Turnstile :: Subway
- Infomercial :: Oxymoron
- Dejected :: Cardinals fans?
- What’s the word? :: Thunderbird
- Awestruck :: Obama
- Smashed :: hopes
- Mood: cheerful
I say ... and you think ... ?- Unwanted ::Telephone calls
- You’d better :: not cry
- Woman :: Wonder
- Weighed :: (I got nothin')
- Upright :: Citizen
- I feel :: Pretty
- Ill :: Considered
- It’s like :: far out, man
- Poor man :: Rich man
- Great :: Balls of Fire
- Mood: cold
