So the back pain really isn't any better today.
I'm going to the Doctor's in a couple hours (he's seeing me at 2:30pm), and hopefully I'll get some good serious pain medicine. Please, please, please.
Because the wine and the expired Aleve I took last night didn't really do much of anything. And I found the unexpired Advil this morning but it didn't do much either.
Wine, you ask? What wine? Yes, I did go to the "fancy dinner" for which I had reservations. If it had been any other restaurant aside from Per Se, I would have cancelled the reservations. But seeing how I had to make these reservations like 8 weeks ago, and I knew how much harder it is to get in now than it was 8 weeks ago, well, I bucked up and went.
It's a lovely restaurant, probably the gem of the Time Warner Center (I've eaten at all the restaurants there and this one was my favorite). Lovely view of the park, beautiful table, everything going really nicely until the waitress spilled my $18 cocktail. Partly on me. And proceeded to help me dry my leg!
Anyhow, after the table linens were replaced, we sat back down and proceeded to have a simply divine meal. Oysters with Iranian Osetra Caviar. Lobster Tail with melted leeks and Red Beet Reduction. Sirloin of Rabbit, which was made all the funnier by the fact that I started singing "Little Bunny Fou-Fou" to my dining companion. Et cetera. A lovely, lovely meal (aside from the lap-cocktail). Great wine (a wonderful Tokaji, a Puligny-Montrachet, and Joseph Phelps Insignia '96, which is an out-of-this-world-good red). Not cheap, but wonderful... There are really only two things that would have made it better. 1) No back pain and 2) no cocktails in my lap. Well, and seeing a couple of the really cute waiters naked wouldn't have hurt, either.
Then I got to come home, back to my pain. It was hard to sleep because I couldn't find a comfortable position. At some point, I figured I'd just stay awake until the desk opened at work so I could call in sick. I mean, I have a job where I'm expected to stand 90% or more of the time, and well, there's just no way that was happening today. I'm dubious whether it'll be able to happen tomorrow. Well, I'll know more after I see the doctor. Now, how am I gonna bend down to get socks onto those feet? They seem so far away today...
Posted by Jon at July 16, 2004 12:41 PM | TrackBackMmmm... Iranian Caviar *sigh* It tastes so much better now that one doesn't have to smuggle it into the country.
Posted by: Antonio at July 16, 2004 02:36 PM