teeth
i went back on friday and had the permanent crown for number eleven placed. next friday it will be cemented in permanently. i asked about number ten, which now looks especially hideous in comparison, and was informed that it was "mostly plastic" and needed a crown itself, but most likely ... yes, a root canal. number fourteen, coming up!

wiscon
a poll, as follows:

Poll #1182563 wiscon
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are you going to wiscon?

spent three hours in the chair this morning. he combined two visits (the actual root canal plus building of post and core/taking an impression for the crown), so i'll go back in two weeks for the final crown.

people were surprised that i went to the office afterward.

a small quiz: guess how much this all cost? edited to add: just over $3,000.00, less than half of which is covered. guess who is now broke?

since i started this lj as a way to track my ongoing dental travails, i thought i would mention that i broke a tooth last night, went to the dentist today, and learned that number 11 needed a root canal.

let's all hear it for root canal thirteen!

(how are you?)

welcome to wednesday.

i was looking at this page and spotted the best cat name in the known universe: evinrude. brilliant.

so tell me some awesome real pet names you have come across.

(the icon is casahighland's cat, boo, as photographed by librarian and iconized by me.)

p.s. this url speaks for itself. GAH

finally, the new yorker comes up with humor that makes me laugh. this only took twenty-five years.*

(thanks to literaticat for the link.)

i am in the mood to hate someone today. i'll even hate them for you. who would you like me to hate?

*i am horrified to realize that i have been reading the new yorker in search of humor since before the author of the linked piece, simon rich, was born. (frank rich's son.)

thrift shops by zip code.

what's the best thrift shop score you've ever made?

i was just discussing this with itwillbespring so i thought i'd ask you, too. i am torn, because totoro is magical but domo-kun is sweet and has eight teeth. (kogepan is a burnt red bean bread, fyi.)

Poll #879773 japanese character dating
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i'd prefer to go out with

a brand-new book on amazon. read all of the reader reviews.

courtesy of white ninja.

today is the birthday of diana wynne jones. she is an international and multiversal (!) treasure.

in honor of this auspicious event, please tell me which dwj book(s) you like best.

went back to the dentist, who cemented the permanent crown in place for a test run. i'll go back next week.

"can we do something about the teeth in the front?" i asked plaintively. "the ones people can see?"
"do you have a trust fund?" he replied.

needless to say: no.

i went to the dentist yesterday. he pried off the temporary crown, set the post and core, took an impression (always fun), and refit the crown. i am not really in pain now. why was i in pain before? because a clamp had cut my gum, and the temp crown was abrading it somehere else. i go back in two weeks. whee!

a few bullet points:

- buy this book. and this one, as ancillary reading.
- did you know that you can kill flies with windex? it really works. i killed eleven! and cleaned a little in the bargain.
- tomorrow is fjm's birthday!
- i have added some more entries to my most recent hate list. what are you hating today?

the lidocaine is still wearing off. two more visits in store -- one to do the post and core and impression, and another to fit the permanent crown. this is the first painless root canal i can remember having (in a long time, perhaps ever). i am more used to being an emergency 9 AM dental appointment: the nerve has gotten inflamed or infected, and i've been up all night clawing the flesh off my body in agony. today i was so relaxed (ha ha ha) that i asked for a mirror and then watched what he was doing.

and i am 85% done with all of my dental work.

thank you all for bearing with me, or at least forcing yourselves to read about it.

btw, my dentist has a friend who is a veterinary dentist. did you know that animals get root canals, too? and braces!

remember number 28, the tooth that cracked and needed a crown anyway? guess what. it actually needs a root canal. so that's what i'm getting tomorrow afternoon.

welcome to my life: a string of meetings punctuated by trips to my house and to the dentist, all of this in almost 100 degree heat.

i seem to have cracked number 28. i am in no pain (right now, or yet). let's hope the dentist is around tomorrow.

how i loathe my teeth. aren't you glad that they're mine and not yours?

updated to add: "oh, your chart says that that tooth needs a crown anyway," they told me. so that's what i'll get on monday. whee.

drama thank you for your patience in this matter. wasn't it exciting, though?

teeth i am getting re-root canaled today. i can barely wait. edited to add: it went fine. two shots of lidocaine and drilling etc. i get the permanent crown in two weeks.

humor the following comes from something awful and made me laugh so hard i spat tea everywhere.

I used to work cashier at a supermarket. One day a typical overburdened mom with $300.00 worth of groceries and a cranky kid in the cart comes on my line, nothing out of the ordinary. The mom's trying to put her stuff on the belt, the kid wriggling in his seat, trying to get to the candy shelf, despite his mom repeatedly yelling at him not to. I'm just doing my job, scanning the groceries, ignoring the little monster. He manages to grab a pack of Skittles off the shelf and toss it on the belt, his mom sees, grabs them, and puts them back on the shelf, telling him, "No candy." He grabs it again, she tries to grab it from him, and the bag rips open during the tug of war between them.

He takes a handful of Skittles, throws them into his mom's face, and shouts "TASTE THE RAINBOW, MOMMY!"

I don't think he got any candy for a long time after that.

turns out that the post in number four snapped in half. i get to go back next week and he'll take out the other half and redo the entire root canal (which he didn't originally do) from scratch. how much fun is that?

alert, elisem: i have the old crown. this strikes me as a great jewelry opportunity.

in other news, this woman is kind of a dope (thanks to cedarlibrarian for the pointer). also, here is an exhibit all about the eames chair (and ottoman).

number four, which had a root canal, a post, and a crown, has just fallen out, post and all. this has happened before, but not on a friday in the late afternoon.

i am in no pain but much annoyance.

okay, this list is remarkable.

do you have any phobias? does anyone you know?

and, most important of all, what are walloons? edited to add: a walloon is not to be confused with a granfalloon.

p.s. happy passover to all.

it's been a while since we've had one of these, mainly because i've been paying my huge balance down.

today i had a cleaning. it was fine. i left with a bag full of various dental products, including special toothpaste and two kinds of toothbrushes.

i told my dentist that i had discovered cornish butter tablet and he should be the one to pay for it, considering. alas, he said no.