to-do

Goals for Pesach vacation:

1. recover from today's minor periodontal surgery (on which more later)
   
2. submit complete revised final book files (text & cover) for press
   
3. finish (if not actually order printing of) L&E's ketubah
   
4. do enough shopping and cooking to keep us thoroughly fed on vegetables and animal proteins
   
5. take justom to 1st-night seder
   
6. tie up a bunch of pending travel details for Hawaii trip with Mom (suddenly just a month away now!)
   
7. update my personal website
   
8. do my project for Skillshare's Teach Yourself to Code: One Month Rails
   
9. have jessruth over for a day of serious closet purge
   
10. go over to jessruth's for an organizational day in exchange
    
11. review my final book proofs (text & cover) and ship jacket files to new bindery
    
12. see la_vie_en_rosie & R when they are in town Wed/Thu
    
13. if possible, have next date with ZZ :-)
    
14. visit Boston next weekend (though it may be shorter than I originally thought, due to all the above)
    

Chag kasher v'sameach!

The gum surgery

So I had what is generically called a gingival graft, where they remove tissue from the roof of your mouth to graft it onto a receding gumline.

( Nothing terribly squicky behind the cut, but you never know, so feel free to skip )

Most annoying side effect: Somewhere in the last quarter or so of the process, my nose started to tingle like I was going to have to sneeze, and though I didn't, my nose has now been draining continuously since the minute I got up from the chair (and it's now been 12 hours and counting). I can only assume this is due to inflammation from the palate somehow impinging on my (often temperamental) sinuses, because I swear I didn't have any hint of rhinitis symptoms when I walked in there, and it's only on the left side (like both the surgical sites). Bleah. I really hope that clears up with the swelling in a day or two.