Well I’m almost completely healed these days. My gums are still slightly pained but nothing I can’t handle. I can eat almost everything I did before I was sick and I’m sleeping fine (that is, without the aid of six ACCs.) I think the most interesting thing that came out of being as sick as I was for that week, other than the realization that being terminally ill would be really really depressing, was that for the first time since who knows when I wasn’t obsessed with girls. That’s right. I was in so much pain that I couldn’t even think about girls. And I always think about girls. What’s even better, is that I don’t miss it. I don’t care. It’s not that I don’t want a girlfriend and that I’ll avoid it. That’s not it at all. It’s just that I’m not going to be crazy about it. It’s a strangely liberated feeling.

In other news, I wrote my first exam today. It was a math one. “Functions of the Complex Variable” is the official name. Really exciting shit. I’m hoping I got out of this one alive as I spent several days studying.

I also finished Illium the other day and while there is some closure on some of the story arcs, there’s a lot left hanging for the second book Olympos which will come out sometime between now and the end of time. Since I grabbed Illium in hardcover I suppose I’ll have to grab Olympos similarly or they won’t match and we don’t want THAT to happen (read: obsessive compulsive behavior kicking in.)

Ah well, my little break from studying for Microprocessor Systems must end now. ‘Til next time, little ones, stay out of trouble. Especially you. That’s right, you know who I’m talking about.