Today: 1,680 words
Total: 6,966 words

The work continues, although today was kind of a slog between writing, doing a mountain of laundry and putting it all away, hitting various stores so that the J Crew and we have food, and generally taking advantage of the fact that Ramón had headed off to his rolepaying game to blast music in the living room and kitchen while I prepped spaghetti for dinner. But hey, I got word count which is all that really matters.

And yes, I can eat spaghetti, although we use shells as the pasta because that’s what Ramón likes. As long as I overcook the pasta to a certain degree, let it cool down before I eat it, and chew carefully I’m good. Which I kinda have to do anyway because some not bad but still really weird shit is going on in my jaw right now—mainly, the nerves that were cut during surgery are starting to heal.

And man, it’s really hard to describe the sensation of a healing nerve. It’s not exactly painful, more like Icy Hot has been applied to my lower left lip and chin along with a low level intermittent electrical current. But while I still have limited muscle control and sensation on that side, I can’t honestly call it totally numb anymore. So hey, that’s an achievement.