Overtime at the Olfactory

"Day 17: Eat nothing but asparagus all day long to ascertain just how noxious your pee can get" (Benrik).

With no one in the house today but me and the mutts, I was able to get a lot of work done on the house. My biggest accomplishment was painting the runners on the stairs, which took about 6 hours after two coats of paint. Between the sauteed asparagus, me stewing in my overalls all day, and the odors from the john after having eaten aforementioned asparagus, the house was pretty ripe. Even the mutts, who are almost always underfoot, decided to leave me alone most of the day.

The asparagus was tasty. My recordings of the smell? Well, let's just say I'm still working at finding the right words to convey the actual smell which emanated from the porcelain all day. From a personal maxim I borrowed from poet Kim Addonizio, "Always be a student of something," I'm sure something more creative than a blog post will develop from today's events.