What an unsatisfying recovery. Each of the last two days have seen a lessening of my symptoms, but no accompanying sense of feeling better. Usually, the return to health has a feeling of energy and wellbeing, but this time it feels more like the illness is sputtering out and will be replaced by mundane weariness and malaise. sure would be nice to look forward to something.

Another unique experience  came along with this messy cold, and it was novel enough (without being dire) that I appreciate it happening. My whole head was packed with thick mucus. I know, that’s gross. But trust me, viscosity is central to the anecdote. I engaged in a vigorous nose blowing, and I felt my left ear plug up. The troubling part was that the goop in my middle ear and eustachian tube was stubbornly staying put, which meant my balance went out the window. This took place very slowly, and I caught on to what was happening pretty quickly, so I was able to steady myself by holding on to the kitchen counter and waiting until I regained my ability to walk.  I am very glad that I wasn’t in the middle of running up the stairs at the time.

On another topic: I will start up a second blog in the near future, and it will be full of creative nonsense. prepare yourself, people!

My sinuses are currently holding the majority of my cognitive capacity hostage, so there will be no fantastic blog today. Please keep your weeping to a minimum.

As homework to kep you busy until I return, consider this question:

Would you read a second blog written by me that was entirely focused on writing? I would frequently post fiction to that blog (something that just wouldn’t fit here).  Maybe even a serialized novel.

More stuff about food, because I eat a lot.  I’ll give you two courses of delight, a palette cleansing course of terrible, then finish with a final course of astounding.

First off, Momos! These Tibetan/Nepalese dumplings come from “Momos at the Market” at the Western Fair market, and they are delicious. A very simplified and straightforward flavor combination that I could eat for hours. The chicken curry is also great. It’s mild but flavourful. I could eat some right now. “Momos at the Market” is open on the weekend all day, and for lunch during the week.

Second course, funnel cake. I know this is a staple fair food, and nothing new to anyone, but the one I ate at the Western Fair yesterday was just right. I added some vanilla ice cream to the cake, and I almost let out a tiny shriek of delight as I ate the whole thing. I must have really been in the mood for uncomplicated tastes, because the simplicity of deep-fried batter and ice cream was (at the time) the best thing I have ever eaten, ever. I tried to share with the lad, but he was having his own love affair with a giant lollipop and he actually refused to try my dessert.

The tiny bit of awful flavour: bad wings, bad! Earlier in the week I tried out the wings at Morrissey House and my stars, they were terrible. Breaded wings? Really? the taste was similar to the z-grade chicken nuggets you had to eat as a kid. Not the tasty ones at McDonald’s, but the ones that are all dark meat and come in a sack of 2000. The final indignity to the wings was a critical shortage of sauce. Either put a generous amount of sauce on the wings, or put it on the side and let me administer my own. Don’t tease me with a dab of sauce on most of the wings.

And now, the baffling. Doritos now makes a tortilla chip that is advertised as being ‘cheeseburger-flavoured’ and by god, they are. They taste exactly like a McDonald’s cheeseburger. After a lifetime of being lied to by chip companies as they gave me promises of strange flavours like  “pizza”, “poutine” or “chicken and gravy” but failed to deliver anything but a weird ambiguous taste, a snack company has stepped up and delivered the goods. As a diligent fake scientist, I ate most of a large bag of these perplexing chips, and they stayed true to the cheeseburger ideal, all the way to the end.