I told them to stop fattening me up

I got my bike back yesterday. $157. That also included the two ankle straps I bought. Hopefully I can go without so much damage to it for a while. Must keep tires fully inflated.

Last night I went out with Trish and some of her friends for her birthday. It was fun, but damn, I was getting tired at the end. We had dinner at Leona's, then went to see Roy Hargrove at the Jazz Showcase downtown. I was so pooped at the end of the night that I just crashed when I got home. This means I haven't showered in two days, so I really must do that tonight.

Marcela keeps buying me food to thank me for helping her out with things. Yesterday it was a bagel, today it was Kit Kat balls. Then Sidhi volunteered to get me food tomorrow. I told them to stop fattening me up.

Aside from having a real busy day, nothing too eventful happened. Tomorrow I need to get my old OrthoPli instruments together to see how much refund I can get from Gary Tippy.

Tomorrow I'm going to meet my parents for dinner since my brother will be in town. The movers are bringing their furniture to their new house tomorrow morning. Friday I'm going to do the Pilsen Mass ride and then head down to Hyde Park for John's birthday bonfire before checking into the Westin for the Bottom Line seminar this weekend.

I wonder when I'll get any work done.

A Photographic Experience for the Night

I got home around 10:30 tonight. I guess I'm back up to fourteen-hour days now. You see, I just spent four hours playing with photos and presentation outlines.

Last March, Neal and I gave a few lectures on interdisciplinary orthodontics to some of the restorative faculty. Afterward, one of my old dental school instructors asked if we'd be interested in presenting at the meeting of the Chicago Odontographic Society this fall. We said yes, of course. We were also asked, through our department, if we'd care to give a similar lecture to the second-year dental students. And, again, we did. And it was good.

So next Monday is the day we have to give our presentation to the Odontographic Society. I luckily planned ahead and have recent photos on the two patients I plan on using (as well as their consent). I spent tonight reorganizing the photos and outlining my part of the presentation. This took longer than I expected, but in the process I've refamiliarized myself with the cases, and picked up things I hadn't seen before, most of them good.

I also spent some time helping out Marcela and Siddhi, and listening to music. Such is life.