Wisdom and Misanthropy

Every time one of my wisdom teeth succeeds at making any progress, I experience a pain whose source I cannot immediately identify. There is a period of several days before I realise that I have a toothache... during this period, I'm generally misanthropic... or, I should say, more misanthropic than usual.

I've been aware of this toothache for a few days now... and finally today I went and bought some maximum strength Orajel. I think there may be a battle of will going on between me and my wisdom teeth.

Either that, or I'm really valuing the wisdom and insights I'm gaining in my moments of intense misanthropy.

The surf picked up a bit today. I went to Cox Bay in the afternoon... and ran into ULTE2 on the trail. I have no idea what he was doing, but I noticed immediately one of his masks... or... one of the faces that he puts on to meet the faces that he meets. If I were at my old job, I would have coded that card N.G. and sent it on its way.

Two minutes later, I was in the surf and had forgotten all about it. I caught one good ride and paddled back out, and when I turned around, realized that there were five million people behind me. I kept paddling out of the corner, but kept getting sucked back in with all the people. The surf wasn't that great there. I got a few closeouts, and felt like I was taking off into a shopping mall. After a few more, I caught one in and then walked over to the left. Once there, I felt as if I had the whole beach to myself... and got one awesome long ride after another. Of course, I was only catching lefts, so I kept having to work my way back to the lefts... which, given the really strong drift into the corner, was a bit of work. Overall, I'd say that it was an excellent session.

I saw a bumper sticker that said "Life is better when you surf"... I'm tempted to cross out the word "better"... and tag on "the rest is just killing time"...