Maybe I should just keep my big mouth shut.

A story about my left ear...

After my flu, which we discussed earlier, I lost hearing in my left ear for nine days. Yeah I know, nine days... fucked up, right? And since I had soon to fly in an aeroplane to be with family and old friends for the holidays I visited a doctor, my first time in several years, to get checked out. Two, really - an audiologist and an otolaryngologist. Sabitathica's official assesstimate: the ENT was reassuring at least, even if he was in no way concretely helpful; the audiologist was dishy.

Anyway, after nine days I began to regain hearing again, except now my left ear was hearing at a different pitch than my right ear -- a 3/4 step difference. Has this happened to you? I can tell you it is disorientating.

And now both my ears are hearing at the same pitch (though I still have hella-tinnitus), only now they're exaggerating frequencies they usually don't. They're eq'd differently. Know what I mean? Frinstance, an instrument I never noticed in a song I've heard 1000 times will now stand out loudest in the mix.

I know, fuck, right?

Anyway, I'm listening now to Midnight at the Oasis. Not the Maria Muldaur version we all know and love, but the Brand New Heavies, who are just a little too slick (on this record) to be convincingly convincing, but so what.