ears and tomato juice

Hello!

First off, anyone out there in an office that your desk/door is directly across from another person? I hope the student across the way never takes offense for me jumping up five times a day and half closing my door on her face. I'm sorry, I don't need people looking in on me typing or on the phone or shoving a muffin in my mouth. Let's think of an upside... I could be in a cubicle.

Watching some commerical or maybe even UFC was on in background of a bar somewhere one night, but however the reason, I've decided to look into cauliflower ears. Pretty gross looking consequences of blows to the ear if you ask me. Wiki! ... includes gross old man cauliflower ear photo. So basically it's about cartilage getting all effed up in your ear and being deformed. Fair enough. But I wondered more if there was treatment for it, or are people expected to run around with bumpy ears, and does it effect your hearing? Turns out that yes you can (and probably should) seek some medical treatment, there are videos on the interwebz I refuse to watch, I think people are busting their cauliflowers with a needle or some shit. Gross. As for the hearing? I'm not going to look that up, but I assume if, as in pictures I've seen, that some ears are so bumpy and deformed you can barely see the ear canal, that there is definitely some side effect to your hearing.

Is it just me, or are there seemingly more people ordering tomato juice when you're on an airplane? I don't have a huge social circle and lots of dining, and when my friends and I do eat or drink, guess what - water, soda and booze. Actually now that I think about it, I don't even see other people ordering up glasses of tomato juice. But on airplanes it seems there are always a lot of people ordering it. I wouldn't even know who to call right now that would have it in their fridge - maybe my mom, as an ingredient for making Caesars. O, I was looking up a recipe, and my mistake, that's clamato juice. I didn't know this until today, Caesars were invented in Calgary, AB. Cool!  My normal travel would be smaller planes, maybe 20-40 people on some of these tinier airplanes - but I bet there are say 5/40 people ordering tomato juice sometimes! It's just interesting, I think. And I realize my "stats" are only made up numbers. But next time you're on an airplane, take note of what people are ordering.

Take care!

-AMB