attempt at massive chuck d

i have set before myself a formidable challenge: reading bleak house. the only other dickens i've read is great expectations, and that was when i was in high school. i liked it, actually, rather a lot. and i very much want to see the alec guinness film again (i saw that somewhere during high school too, i think). anyway. so bleak house is of course over 800 pages and the print is very small. i love the idea of diving into it and being immersed. i hope this happens. right now i'm on page 7 i think, so i guess we'll just see. wish me luck, eh?

otherwise, i've not much in the way of news. i had a quarter of my mouth cleaned professionally yesterday, the upper left, and with the anesthesia it was almost a pleasant experience. though afterwards of course my cheek felt three times its normal size, bloated and ugly.