Hearing in my right head is returning. I felt it open almost all the way today, on the subway, when I had the car all to myself. Some whoosh of sound to the left, probably made of filthy air, came through rapturously clear. I was alone underground, watching a few people pass by in the station. Where is anyone going at 6:30 on a Sunday morning? Groups of people, strangers to me, strangers to each other, gathered in a congress of mutual admonition, nothing to be spoken of until the anticipated experiences of the day commence. Walk over the Brooklyn Bridge. See a skyscraper. Eat a hot dog. Look at 9/11 memorials, professional and makeshift. Eat. Think about fucking a stranger after seeing them in different lighting.

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The new work schedule has been something of an adjustment, made more cumbersome by attacks on multiple fronts. The sinus infection kicked in basically on day 1 of the new sked. I called in sick and that gave me 4 fulls days to blow as much technicolor snot out of my face as I could. I must have blown too hard, which would explain the hearing blockage. I guess it’s the snot blocking the eustachian (sp?) tube. I’m doing saline nasal spray for now but will go for the steroid treatment on Tuesday. I have to wait because it’s a new drug and I can’t risk taking it while I’m at this job if there aree going to be violent side effects. My mother reacted very badly to steroid and I suspect I will, too. I can’t be at work if I’ll be pooping and barfing and becoming highly agitated all day. Another element that made the transition to the new sked clumsy was the unexpected intrusion of daylight savings time, which stole an hour of my always critical sleep. That was really uncalled for.

I’ve had this clever idea that I’d save money by charging my phone only at the workplace. Today I find that the most you would likely ever spend charging your phone is $5 over the course of a full year. I believe I was influenced by a radio personality’s offhand comment about cell phones chewing up energy into thinking these things were energy hogs. And when talk of AI said that every image generated by Dall-E chews up as much juice as charging your phone from 0 to 100%, that made it sound like these AI images chew up lots and lots of power. But a full charge could cost as much as $0.0020.

I gotta run.