TMI re: Yesterday
I'm not kidding. This is totally TMI. Skip this entry if you don't want to know something kind of gross.

Here's how my day started: with some major gas pains. Not the fun/funny kind of gas where you make funny noises and might make bad smells, no, this was the kind of gas that just sits in your belly, causing bloat and a great many grimaces (not the purple happy kind from McDonald's anyway, the unpleasant kind. And speaking of McDonald's characters, I'd like to start a campaign to elect Mayor McCheese President of something.). As the day went on, no amount of Pepcid helped, the mere thought of carbonation sent my stomach into knots. Sitting in class, I attemped to drink a Talking Rain with my sandwich but that only made things a whole lot worse. More grimacing (and alas, no Mayor McCheese) commenced. By the time my teacher announced that he had to leave so we could go 45 minutes early, I was nearly doubled over.

Sat on the couch at home for a while, arms up, trying to coax out the gas bubble that was surely killing me. No luck until I sucked it up and ate one of the hard-core tastes-like-ass Pepcid chewables that also have the anti-gas in them.

It took some time but it was magic, pure, heavenly magic. During band, I actually felt hungry so by the time band, then quintet practice was over, I was again about to die, this time from hunger.

Before we went to bed, Andrea asked me 'do I have time to pee/wash my face/brush my teeth or are you crowning?'

I went to bed feeling ridiculously good. And so much lighter.