This weekend I’m going into hospital to have an uvulectomy under general anaesthetic. Eeek. I’m a little nervous about it — first of all because I’m expecting there to be considerable pain and discomfort for several weeks afterwards, and secondly because being anaesthetised is about as close as I can imagine to being dead.

Still, I’m also kind of excited, because it will hopefully cure me of my (recently diagnosed) sleep apnea, and my (infamous) snoring.