{"id":253,"date":"2008-07-01T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/?p=253"},"modified":"2008-07-01T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T09:44:00","slug":"a-breakfast-of-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"A breakfast of Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I managed to make a fairly decent-looking omelette this morning. Normally I mangle them and they turn out as Scombelettes\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, a sort of patchwork scrambled omelette.<\/p>\n

But this morning I used a smaller pan, lower heat, and realized that omelettes are folded, not flipped. It didn’t come out perfect, but it was a lot closer to an omelette shape than I’ve come before.<\/p>\n

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Then I sat down and began to eat my creation, reading a magazine article about the sound design in Wall-E.<\/p>\n

Chew, chew, chew, CRUNCH!<\/p>\n

CRUNCH?<\/p>\n

I had just bit into my tongue. Hard.
\nI’ve bit my tongue before, but this was by far the biggest gash I’d made in the ol’ word-waggler.<\/p>\n

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(It doesn’t look that bad in the photo, but that cut is pretty deep)<\/p>\n

After stanching the flow of blood with several paper towels, I found my tongue now alternates between feeling fine and feeling a aching, stabbing pain, like a toothache in my tongue, causing me to wince.<\/p>\n

Two hours later, it’s still like that. Fine, fine, fine, fine, PAIN.<\/p>\n

Any kind of food or drink brings on the pain. So until it gets better, I guess I’m fasting, maybe gently sipping some water to stay hydrated.<\/p>\n

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I managed to make a fairly decent-looking omelette this morning. Normally I mangle them and they turn out as Scombelettes\u00e2\u201e\u00a2, a sort of patchwork scrambled omelette. But this morning I used a smaller pan, lower heat, and realized that omelettes are folded, not flipped. It didn’t come out perfect, but it was a lot closer … Continue reading A breakfast of Pain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,42],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-food","tag-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/words.tev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}