And how you used to say the stars are forever

So Thursday morning I woke up with my right ear feeling muffled and a bit sore. Initially I thought it was a cold symptom, since it cleared up a bit after a ho shower and hot tea, and since there's been something going around. It stayed sore all day, but whatever, I figured, it'd be gone by Friday. WRONG. It was still there, and more muffled. At that point I realized it could onl be an ear infection, more specifically swimmer's ear. I got antibiotic ear drops, which seemed to work for a few minutes before my ear canal shut completely. Fastforward to 5:30 AM and the entire right side of my face is throbbing. I finally wound up going to the UPenn hospital at 7:30, and there I stayed until roughly 3:00. But, after a prescription for 2 antibiotics, sudafed, benadryl and generic pain-killers, I can actually hear out of my right ear again.

So what does all of this have to do with art? Nothing, unless you count being unable to use my Zen for 3 days because putting an ear bud in my right ear was impossible.