Can you guess where in the world this child is from?
(Hint: not from a country featured previously on this blog)
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every now and then I like to get pictures out like this to relieve the crowding and claustrophobia of Korea
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a little bit gross

Dear reader, I'm sorry to subject you to the grotesque or unneccessarily graphic parts of my life. I'll just say I've been posting much less than I had anticipated, because of the pain resulting from a minor (throat) surgery I went through recently.

So much pain, actually, that I had to go back to get more of those green and red pills that are just hopped up Tylenols (with a little codeine phosphate thrown in for good measure).

But today I felt like I passed a significant milestone in the pain reduction tunnel-without-light-at-the-end syndrome; e.g., the pain hasn't significantly lessened in five days, but this morning I did spit out a tiny plastic suture. wow! those guys had time to laser me AND tie little tiny knots in the two or three minutes they worked on me? That was pretty slick.