since i'm going under the knife friday morning, i've treated myself to a few delicious last meals. this is not to say that i wouldn't have eaten this food anyway, but its more fun treating yourself to good food if you have a good reason.
first off, tuesday afternoon, right after i scheduled the surgery, lkm
and i went for tacos from la taqueria on mission @ 25thish. la taqueria truly does make the best tacos in the mission - a contentious statement, of course - as long as you get it done with cheese between the two corn torillas and grilled crispy. the carnitas is delicious. here lkm noshes on the stewed chicken. note that the other traditional dishes at la taqueria don't
stand up to the rest of the mission- only the super tacos do.
next, wednesday afternoon we had a hankering for cheeseboard pizza. but cheeseboard has terrible hours, so we went to arinells in berkeley. best simple new york slice of cheese in the bay. also had delicious tri-tip at a moses bbq wednesday night. found out at the bbq that yu looks exactly like his father... he just needs a beret.
thursday morning, lkm treated me to a pancake, bacon, and fresh fruit brunch. it was enough for two meals. so it was fine to skip lunch and hold off until dinner for burma superstar. lkm's sister alex joined us for this pre-op tradition. she was very "hangry" when she showed up- hungry and angry. so we promptly gorged ourselves on tea leaf salad, pumpkin pork curry, samusas, and yellow bean curry. all this burmese food is deliciously spiced... unique, flavorful, and not overpowering.
all this heavy food will not sit well with the month of inactivity i have planned. so thats it for last suppers. anyone have one of those electro-pulse exercise pads so i can sit on the couch and get ripped?
on last thursday i showed lkm sutro heights park, a park in the north west corner of the city. the land's end area of the city has always been one of my favorites to hike around- its got great cypress trees all along the coast that get shaped by the winds coming up the cliffs. but i only recently found sutro heights park proper.
lkm made sure they were getting the right ankle done. she tagged my left ankle for insurance.
this is my view for the next 6 (not 4) weeks. looks like a foot burrito, eh? right now lkm is at the library picking up murderball, which i'm sure will make me feel better about my injury. it'll probably also make me feel like a lazy wimp, but i do have a fair amount of hydrocodone flowing through my veins, so i'll get over it. found this while looking up murderball.
first off, tuesday afternoon, right after i scheduled the surgery, lkm 
and i went for tacos from la taqueria on mission @ 25thish. la taqueria truly does make the best tacos in the mission - a contentious statement, of course - as long as you get it done with cheese between the two corn torillas and grilled crispy. the carnitas is delicious. here lkm noshes on the stewed chicken. note that the other traditional dishes at la taqueria don't
stand up to the rest of the mission- only the super tacos do.
these are snapshots of my MRI. in the first, i believe the thick white line behind my ankle is the tendon in question. the damage is the dark area above the ankle... i think. in the second, you see the damage to the achilles in the dark spot on the achilles. note that i don't know anything about reading MRIs.
on thursday i hobbled off the bart a few seconds before lkm did. she had just finished the bar exam and was coming back into the city after 3 days of testing in oakland. when she got topside and saw me, she started in with the crazy: disbelief, confusion, excitement, exhilaration, and then some minor crying, hysterical laughing, convulsions, and finally tremor. the bar takes a lot of you.
