Day 1 post-surgery: I watched It’s Complicated, Forrest Gump, Judge Judy, UFC, The Unlocked Treasures of Jesse James, The Real Secrets of the DaVinci Code, edited the hell out of my *now finished* manuscript, and listened to music from the Forrest Gump soundtrack on YouTube (because it’s just that good).

Today the TV is off (until the Survivor Finale tonight), and I’ve been listening to all kinds of music on Pandora from the Beatles to Buffalo Springfield to The Fray. Here’s my favorite of the day:

As for my progress, the swelling is down, the pain is a little more intense (now that the surgery meds are out of my system), and I’m tired of being out-of-commission. I’m counting the days until I can be up moving around again…