Sick Girl

Well I'm sick with strep throat. I've been sick since last Wednesday, but didn't really feel it until Friday. I suspected that I had strep because I went on WebMD and read all about it, but the doctor confirmed it on Monday and gave me some pain killers and antibiotics. Last night I finally slept since Saturday night and it was great. I would never wish this disease on anyone, because it has been SO painful on my throat and the rest of my body.

I have completely lost my voice, but when I try to speak I sound like the little black boy in the wheel chair from Malcolm in the Middle....Jesse laughs at me every time I talk. Oh well.

Melissa

pigs

I heard the funniest story on NPR's California Report on Friday. They were doing a piece on the annual gathering of chefs at the Ahwanee Lodge in Yosemite. This year's theme was the Whole Hog, where the chefs made food out of all the different bits of a pig. Anyway, they interviewed a woman who said that she'd been a vegetarian for 22 years, then from the insistance of a friend, had a pork shoulder one night for dinner. Her life was changed by that pork shoulder, she renounced vegetarianism and loves eating pork, so much so that she got a tattoo of a pig on her arm. That's a great story. That's the power of pork.