So I mentioned on Twitter a while back that I had an exciting medical crisis while travelling in Germany, and I figured I might as well share the details for anyone who cares. The tl;dr version is that I had a minor surgery and I'm totally fine now.

( The more detailed version is here, below the cut. )

I have a yucky cold. I blame my gross soon-to-be-ex roommate who's spent the last five days coughing and sneezing on every part of our house. Ew.

The Shrimp conned me into going to a speed dating thing with her on Sunday. (black_siren yelled at me via IM, afterwards, for "lowering myself" - ahahaha! ) But, happily, the one really acceptable and semi-interesting guy there also found me acceptable and semi-interesting. He called last night and left a nice little message saying he'd like to chat again. I waited bravely until tonight and called back -- and ended up having to leave a message too. Sigh. Now I'm waiting a little anxiously to see if he'll call back tonight or if I'll get another voicemail during tomorrow night's rehearsal and this will go on forever.

And, in conclusion -- ask me something, anything at all! Personal, impersonal, writerly, scientific, artistic -- whatever! (Answers may be screened at my discretion so's I can maintain my secret identity as a choral superhero.)