Self-medicate? Ungrateful? What am I missing here? Maybe it's because it's the Dead Day after Boskone, so I'll chalk it up to my being a bit brain-dead. Or were you just a bit slow issuing your thanks? So I'll offer a (gratefully) short sample or two (for varying values of two) of my far-off-centaur sense of humor to cheer you up.

Pre-meditated is not the same as pre-medicated. So please cool it on the practicing medicine (specifically surgery) without a license?

When I was in college, there was a nearby bar called the Bright Spot (in the Brighton section of Boston) which featured a stripper who could twirl her breasts in opposite directions (without manual assistance).
Work still pushing your nose to the grindstone? Tea! OK, that's not very original, is it? (:-/

Happy unValentine's Day!
Ann O.