Pepper

They've been playing good music at work on the overhead since New Years. I mean, it's honestly good muzak. It's a mixture of some older stuff, some newer stuff, got a little country mixed in there, and some strange things thrown in, like Tone Loc & Queen. I've heard a coupla songs on there that I haven't heard in ages...

• Right Here, Right Now by Jesus Jones


• Blue Cars by Dishwalla (most people know it as Tell Me All Your Thoughts On God)


• I Want You by Savage Garden (yes, it's the 'Chicka-cherry-cola' song, and it's not by Roxette)


• Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

and...
Pepper by the Butthole Surfers. Weird band for a casino to play on muzak. Weirder still that I, being a fairly well-versed Butthole Surfer fan didn't know the song was even by the Butthole Surfers. I thought it was by Beck, or maybe even Cracker (of Low fame, not Uncle Kracker). It's such a slow, melodic tune, and it's got such gorgeous lyrics in the chorus...

'I don't mind the sun sometimes,
The images it shows.
I can taste you on my lips
and smell you in my clothes.
Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies,
You never know just how you look through other people's eyes.'

Of course, the rest of the song is fairly gruesome, kind of like Jim Carroll's People Who Died. But there I was at work, singing along to it, all the time wondering what prompted the Excalibur to change its choice of piped-in background music.

I'm also doing this to see if lj has a list recognition function. I've been working on my Web Development class tonight :P

Gonna Do It

I spoke with the actual surgeon today. He went over some of my options for the future - as in greater damage, bad arthritis or a total knee replacement. The outer wall of the cyst on my thigh bone is very thin - there's a fracture there already & if I fall again or bang it badly enough, it could cave in, which would be a bad thing. So... sometime at the end of March or beginning of April, I'm going for surgery. It's an out-patient procedure, so there's no hospital stay unless something goes horribly awry. So no trip to WA for us - instead I'll be relearning to use crutches for a month or so. I used to be able to dance on crutches, beat people up with 'em - you can get proficient given enough time. But I can't put any weight whatsoever on that leg for at least 4 weeks, mainly because the spot being repaired is a weight-bearing section. The cost as of right now is unknown, but I've got 3 weeks of vacation time so I'm not really going to be losing any work. I'll probably go apeshit - 3 weeks stuck in the house & unable to clean anything. Just sitting here with my leg elevated, all I'll have to do is schoolwork & Warcraft. For 3 long weeks. Rob having to do the laundry & catering to my every need... while I sit here for 3 whole weeks...

Surgery's not all bad ;)