i know you're all waiting for an update.

I did get in to see the allergist again today instead of a week from Wednesday (though I got there for the appointment at 11:30 and didn't see the doctor himself until close to 1pm, I shit you not, and then sat in the chair for twenty minutes waiting for a quick follow-up with the dentist as well, so the next person who tells me "the doctor will be right in" had sure the fuck better be talking about five minutes or less). He looked at the CT films and read the write-up the diagnostic place had faxed him and tapped on my face a couple more times and referred me to an ENT.

Sigh.

you have got to be kidding me.

I have just seen a commercial for Mercedes-Benz, in which they brag that they were the first to introduce the "pre-safe break" with "automatic emergency breaking".

[SIC.] I am not joking.

Fail, Mercedes. Were I in the market for an expensive car, I would decline to buy yours on the grounds of your utter illiteracy.