Turns out the suture was okay, so I didn’t have to get it sewn up at all. The dentist said it will heal on it’s own. That’s good. The swelling is virtually gone, which is quite nice. (I think I’ll scan in the picture I took when I was Mr. Chipmunk with mongo cheeks and put it up here once I get it developed.) I haven’t taken any painkiller since Monday afternoon, and I’ve been pretty much fine. My teeth are a little raw, granted, but it’s not unbearable. It’s very nice having a clear head.

My mission papers go in on Tuesday (when I have my stake president interview). I should have my call within three weeks after that.

I did some proofing for Distributed Proofreaders on Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks (in two volumes), which was released yesterday as Project Gutenberg e-text #5000. Today I did a few hours more of proofing, on Victor Hugo’s L’Homme qui Rit (The Man Who Laughs), volume II. I’m also proofing Andrew Lang’s Pink Fairy Book. I’m going to start typing in G.K. Chesterton’s The Napoleon on Notting Hill and The Ball and the Cross. Neither is available online at the moment, to my surprise. Ideally I’d scan them in and OCR the images, but alas, I haven’t a scanner, so I’ll just have to type them in manually.

I’ve started typing in The Ball and the Cross. Finished the first two chapters (of twenty). My goal is to have it done by the end of May, but I really think I can get it done sooner than that. In fact, if I keep working at the rate I did today, I’ll have the book done in just over a week. (Finals will prevent that from happening, of course, but perhaps I can finish it shortly thereafter.)

I’m way behind on e-mails but should catch up on Sunday. I always start to feel guilty when I see thirty or forty e-mails in my inbox, some from weeks ago, that I haven’t yet found time to reply to. Or made time, rather, since I obviously have the time.