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[Metope]

Hah! I sucked my thumb when I was little, and my teeth looked kind of like that, just not quite as bad. My teeth are fine now, thanks to braces.

My current problem is this (sorry for the quick and crappy paint drawing):


The dentist actually started laughing the first time she saw it, and then she called over a nurse so she too could witness the freakshow.


(...and Dimmukane, my name is Kristin.)


Pagebreak, I hate you.

[Tom]

Oh God Kristin, that is brilliant. I wonder how the tooth ended up growing like that.

[Metope]

My wisdom teeth are dumb, man. Dumb.

[michaelicious]

Man, I had so much fun when I got my wisdom teeth out. I got to miss three days of work, I had an endless supply of juice, and I basically just sat in my bed watching Stop Making Sense over and over.

[jodizzle]

My bottom two wisdom teeth grew sideways like that Kristin.  My top two were retarded too, just not as retarded.  I got them all out at once, but I got to be unconscious.  Also no doctors/dentists were excited about my teeth.

[mberan42]

Man I was awake for the entirety of the dentist removing my wisdom teeth. It was agonizingly awful. My bottom two were impacted and wrapped somehow around themselves or something, so each one took 20 minutes of drilling and piecemeal removal to get the things out. It was awful.

[Liz]

My top two are finally coming in. The top left one has broken through completely and is growing outward a bit, but whatever. The top right one is starting to come in but not much. No sign of the bottom two yet. I hope I don't have to get them removed.

Also, Matt: Ugh.

[SonofZ3]

Only one of mine ever came in, and the others are (thankfully) quiet. I tell my mother that if shes ever looking at a corpse too burned to see if it has my tattoos, just check for the single wisdom tooth. She doesn't like it when I tell her that.

[mberan42]

Yeah. But now I have awesome teeth! (I won't get into my awesome teeth stories, but there are a few good ones. Well, one good one, the rest boring. Suffice to say, though, I have awesome teeth now and damn happy about it.)

Uhh, blog: I'm at my parent's house for the night for some reason. Had dinner with my mom, sister and brother; dad's in Singapore. Drinking beer and internetting right now; kinda bored.

[backstagebetty]

Hi blog teeth thread!

I always say I never got my wisdom teeth (I'm 26), but everyone says that can't be true...? I guess I did, then, but they've certainly never bothered me. Obviously, I haven't been to the dentist in a really long time. I need to go. I think I have a cavity.

[tania]

picture of terrifyingly backwards wisdom teeth

hey, i had a wisdom tooth that looked like that too. i'll be honest, the surgery itself was pretty fucking terrible but i made it through alright and they actually didn't hurt at all after the initial couple of days. it'll be over before you know it.

[Allybee]

betty, it is possible! I was born without wisdom teeth because I am genetically superior. I think I will have lots and lots of wisdom-toothless children to strengthen the species.

[Blue Kitty]

I don't remember a thing from my wisdom teeth surgery.  I was strapped to a chair, then the knocked me out with some something through an IV, and I woke up feeling all nice inside with cotton balls in my mouth.   The things I remember from it are that it was during spring break and eating some vanilla ice cream with a little blood in it.

Dear BLog thread,

Today was a pretty good day off.  Woke up around 1 PM and played Fable 2 the rest of the day.

[michaelicious]

Did you wear the big suit too?

Don't answer: In my mind you did.

Absolutely I did. You think I'm not gonna wear the big suit every chance I get?

[ackblom12]

Oh man, I found out today that I got a new job as tech support for a company called Globallinx. It ends up being $3.95 an hour pay raise and actual experience in a field i can stick around in and open some doors in.

This also means me and Kat can make it to Chicago without working ourselves down to $13 for the trip home like we ended up doing for Toronto.

The last 2 weeks at work will be the most unproductive days ever.

[Slick]

Wisdom teeth: two of mine were impacting, two 'looked like they might'. I figured the doctor just wanted to take them all out and charge more (our socialist health care does not cover wisdom teeth until they become a problem) but was not going to argue with the pro. I had all four out in one go, they gassed me and I felt great. I was quoting Shakespeare in the recovery room and thoroughly enjoyed the car ride back to my grandparent's house, where I then spent the next three or four days bleeding a lot and being in pain and having lots of tasty soup.

[Patrick]

Dear blog thread,

I fly back to Albania tomorrow. I'm not really excited. I miss my mom and my friends there and all, but over the last 10 years I have been shuttled back and forth between my parents with at least 6 trips a year. The amount of trips hasn't changed at all, but the duration of transit sure as hell has. Now it can take up to 24 hours to get from one to the other.

Combine that with a long-distance relationship. Not only is there the separation to deal with, but now I have to deal with a 10-hour time difference. I also can't text Tara constantly anymore, because international texting rates are completely unaffordable for the both of us. We have Vonage at my mom's house, but the connection is unbearably shitty because the internet connection at home is so terrible.

I want nothing more than to just sit here and cry my eyes out, but instead I get to pack, which will remind me of how shitty it was to have to pack so I could leave the last place I didn't feel like leaving. Which, of course, will just make me want to cry with more intensity and frequency.

Sometimes I really fucking hate my life.

[Metope]

My bottom two wisdom teeth grew sideways like that Kristin.  My top two were retarded too, just not as retarded.  I got them all out at once, but I got to be unconscious.  Also no doctors/dentists were excited about my teeth.

Yeah, that's exactly what I have, my upper teeth are not as bad. I still have to remove them too, first the top ones at the dentist, and then later the bottom two at a specialist. He is supposed to be really great, but I still wish I'd get to be unconscious.

Man I was awake for the entirety of the dentist removing my wisdom teeth. It was agonizingly awful. My bottom two were impacted and wrapped somehow around themselves or something, so each one took 20 minutes of drilling and piecemeal removal to get the things out. It was awful.

hey, i had a wisdom tooth that looked like that too. i'll be honest, the surgery itself was pretty fucking terrible but i made it through alright and they actually didn't hurt at all after the initial couple of days. it'll be over before you know it.

 

[Slick]

In the past three days, I've gotten fifteen hours of sleep.
After sleeping for three hours, I woke up two and a half hours ago and have been constantly baking since. I can't remember the last time I ate? I am eating muffins a friend made me right now
ohmygoodmyfaceisgoingtofalloff I'vegottobeawakeforanotherninehours uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I just called a friend who was supposed to be helping me, and while leaving a voice message, my words actually failed me. Like, I devolved into gibberish mumbling and couldn't not mumble.

nurrrrrrrrrrrrrruuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[jodizzle]

Yeah that is pretty rough.  I mean seriously, that is the kind of shit you should not be awake for.

the nurses after i got out of surgery were mean!  The anesthetic had the weird effect of making me need to pee all the time.  So I managed to get one of the nurses attention and asked (as well as I could with a bleedy cotton wool filled mouth) and she was all, oh sure I will just settle in this patiet and be back.  Sure no worries, 10 minutes passes (please remember I am busting here) and I look over and realise the nurses are all just standing around in a circle talking about (wait for it) mushroom farming. WUT?  Jerks.

Anyway, after that I was in the recovery sitting room and they brought me my drugs and ice cream (I remember glaring so angrily at this old woman who had been in for eye surgery because she was eating a sandwich and I so badly wanted to not have a mouth full of cotton wool) and when I was eating the ice cream I couldn't feel my mouth at all.  What i didn't realise was that i was basically just hitting my chin with the spoon and was covering myself in goo.  A nurse walked past me, looked at me and made the most disgusted noise, then practically hit at me with a napkin to clean my face.  I was so embarrassed.

Moral of this story, my nurses were mean!

Also I could hardlly eat anythign for a week and I passed out a few times! woo!

Sorry this was actually really long and boring.

[SonofZ3]

Theres a lot of mean nurses out there, and I really don't get it. I'm not sure why someone would choose a profession where you see people at one of their most vulnerable moments if you're going to be shitty with those same people. I was in the hospital one time getting my head forehead stitched up and between the nurse and the town cop that was there it was a regular asshole convention. When I was in the hospital for my appendectomy when I was little I had some night shift nurses that were nasty as hell. I think they must just get jaded and tired of dealing with sick people.

[Ladybug]

I'm not really defending mean nurses, but I can sort of understand why they wouldn't be all smiles, or even pleasant, all the time. They have very busy days, work a lot, have to deal with a lot of crap and get paid very little. My mother, who is a nurse, has always told me "You can be whatever you want to be, just please, do yourself a favour, and do not become a nurse!".

That being said, they know what they are getting into, and it's hardly the patients' fault, so yeah..

[sean]

Man all I remember about getting my wisdom teeth out is that they had trouble giving me an IV. After that the first thing I remember is being really fucked up on painkillers lying on some couch at the doctors office. Then I went home and I was kind of fucked up. Then I wasn't. And I was not given Vicodin. I was not pleased for the next few days.

[RedLion]

I've had a cavity drilled without novicane. Twice, in fact! I was actually very proud of myself, but it hurts like hell. Though, not in a "normal" way. It's like something extremely cold is being poured with great force directly into your tooth.

[jodizzle]

So, blog thread.

Drama

Last night I awoke to my house mates (the couple) screaming and yelling at each other.  From what I could gather while listening from my hiding place in my room (it was like1am) somewhere in the middle of it Jess tried to kill her self by taking a bunch of her epilepsy tablets.  I am not even sure if you can OD on epilepsy tablets, but needless to say she failed.

I think I need less suicidal friends.

[Alex C]

While they're not really strikingly dangerous compared to other medications, epilepsy drugs are one of the many things you really shouldn't take in large doses and mixed with alcohol. It's actually a pretty serious problem when you consider that epileptics are considerably more likely to attempt suicide than the average person. There's some speculation as to why that is though; they're unsure whether it's the drugs, the epilepsy, or the difficulties of life as an epileptic.

[jodizzle]

At some point I heard rob call an ambulance I think (this was how I knew what had happened, I heard him explaining what she had done) but I don't remember one actually coming?  I don't know, I am going to be too scared to ask I think.

[Slick]

I've had a cavity drilled without novicane. Twice, in fact! I was actually very proud of myself, but it hurts like hell. Though, not in a "normal" way. It's like something extremely cold is being poured with great force directly into your tooth.

I found it more of the 'grating and grinding away at nerve endings' than the 'extreme cold'. Depends how deep the cavity is.

[jodizzle]

Update:

So apparently Jess took a lethal dose of her meds and is still in hospital.  She wasn't fighting with Rob either, it was all to do with her mother.  Rob came in tonight and told me about it.  Apparently it is a huge secret and I'm not even allowed to let Jess know I know, but Rob really needed to tell someone (understandably).  Similarly, I am telling you guys because it is not like you know them etc.

Oh I forgot to mention, her mum is fucking insane.  Basically jess was hanging out with her downtown and they got into a fight and Jess said something along the lines of 'you make me feel so bad about myself that I just want to kill myself'. and her mother said 'Well I would tell you not to but you're a big girl and you can make your own decisions about that' also something else about taking her home to do it? So Jess went home and that was what she did.

Rob said he spent the whole day in a room with a councilor and Jess's mum, and the most awkward thing he has ever had to do is tell that dude that someone had told her daughter to go home and kill herself, while that someone was also in the room.
Rob and I are both infuriated at her mother.

Things like this are kind of important to vent I think.

[tania]

absolutely.
no one should ever feel bad about needing to talk about things that are stressing them out. that goes for the stuff that seems small and silly too. letting it build up inside you will always be immensely more self-destructive in the long run. that is what this thread is for!

[De_El]

dear hog's head,

hangover time. wooooo

[tania]

blog thread!

i am still very busy and stressed out with school and despite the fact that i have worked harder than i have ever worked in my life, my grades continue to be terrible which terrifies me because i am supposed to graduate this year or something. i have three exams in the next three days and one involves memorizing a three inch pile of articles on women's health and psychology which is a fucking impossible amount of information and i am trying to rationalize this by going "it's okay, it's an impossible amount of information and my professor will be reasonable" only i already had an exam involving memorizing an equally massive pile of articles on community mental health and prevention strategies which i stayed up all night for and ended up completely failing anyway because it was fucking insane hard.
oh goodness gracious what am i going to do

[Barmymoo]

Tania, that sounds extremely stressful and also unfair of your professor. I don't know how you learn best but I find that highlighting really helps me to memorise things, particularly if I use colour coding. Also, even if you don't graduate with good grades you will be successful because you are smart and not a total bitch.

What I am saying is that grades do not matter, the internet will truly assess your worth as a person. No, what I'm really saying is don't panic, it will almost certainly turn out better than you're expecting and good luck

Blog thread, tomorrow I see The Girl for the first time in two and a half years. What if we don't click like we did last time? What if the hours and hours of phone calls were projecting a false image of how well we get along and actually we hate each other? And on the flipside, what if it's really cool and we're mad about each other and it gets really hard to keep the relationship a) a secret and b) going over the hundred miles? I know that's not long distance like Patrick and Tara and many other people but still it's a pretty long way, especially since my mother can't find out. I cannot cope with the drama over my sexuality again.

So, today I worked for three hours in the morning and then my brother and I caught the train from our mum's to our dad's (my house to bro's house). The first stretch of journey was uneventful; the second was hilarious because the train was cancelled and we had to get a train replacement bus and you really wouldn't believe how badly organised the station was. These railway works have been going on for at least a year, you'd think they'd have got things sorted by now.

At the last station, there were loads of police around with dogs and machine guns. I'm talking suspected terrorism scale of policing, and no one batted an eyelid. Wow. Anyhow the exciting part was that I tried to get some money out and the ATM ate my bank card because I got my PIN wrong. So I need to call my bank. Oops.

I'm at my dad's for the week (well, til Friday) and I'll be on my own during the days because bro is back at school next week and dad works. The Girl also works, so we're meeting up in the evenings. I'll get some college work done and maybe make a start on revising for my January exams to cut down the workload near Christmas. Yup. That's about it.


Edit: I just remembered! I've managed to rope myself and my friend into making a film about our college. We were bored and got talking to the librarian about using a memory card reader to get a film from a camera phone onto the computer and it spiralled into talking to the principal about making a new promotional film. After half term we're going to see the marketing manager about funding and consent forms. I have never really filmed anything before, unless holding my digital camera still and using the film setting to record stuff counts.

[StaedlerMars]

Dear QC Forum,

Yesterday I did my first radioshow. It went pretty well. I also completed one of the major assignments due next week, it relieved giant amounts of stress, I'm a bit afraid that it relieved too much stress. I haven't done anything all day, and while I don't think that's a good thing, it was totally great, and the first care free lazy day I have had all year so far.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's 21:30, and I'm still wearing my pyjamas and it's awesome.

Tania, exams are no fun, I'm sorry. Maybe you should just focus on one (or a couple of) paper, instead of all three inches? Just so you properly understand that one instead of vaguely knowing all of them.

[tania]

yeah i am going to study my ass off and try my hardest to know all the core concepts and hope it works out. mostly i am infuriated cos the exam is structured so that it only really asks a few questions on randomly chosen material and subsequently will end up testing only about 2% of the ridiculous amount of material i need to memorize, only i have no idea what it will be. why would you do that

[maxusy3k]

Dear Blog Thread,

Thank you for working your wonderous magic in fixing my dilemma / anxiety over not scoring the gig tickets like I was supposed to.

Next time though, if you could solve one problem without having my best friend try to kill his ex girlfriend, get arrested, and have me spend the night going between another friends house and the hospital, in the freezing cold and rain, then that would also be swell.

This Xmas present thing seems like a really retarded thing to have been worrying about right now. Also, why did my best friend suddenly turn into a woman-beating psychopath?

[Vendetagainst]

You should probably drag him into therapy or something. Properly sedated, of course.

[David_Dovey]

Dear Bla Bla Bla Thread,

On the weekend I went to the gay pride parade. It was wonderful! It was in Northbridge, which is the place where a great proportion of the nightclubs and bars and such are in Perth, and thus also where a great proportion of the violent douchebags and drunken embarrasments to humankind are in Perth. But not on this Saturday. Everybody, be they gay or straight just seemed more friendly and happy and for once I wasn't afraid to be walking down the main drag in Northbridge.

 I wish every day was pride day!

Also that night me and the Lady had excellent Mexican food. I love Mexican food so much.

[BrittanyMarie]

My mom got married yesterday. It was pretty nice, even if the majority of her husband's family is kind of dumb. I mean, I like him and his sons and his parents, but his brother and his wife are just... dumb. Though I did get a pretty good laugh when the brother (I guess my step-uncle? That's weird) asked me what I'm going to do with a sociology degree, and his wife said "she'll be a democrat". She meant it to be teasing me, like it was a bad thing. I told her "nah, I tend to lean way more liberal than that. Though that's really what you get when you've taken four years of classes like 'social problems' and 'social inequality'"

[KvP]

LONG POST ARG

I saw Barack Obama today! He was not 50 feet away!

He's soooooo dreamy!

And I owe it all to unfairness. We cut in line behind some people who had been waiting 3 hours longer than us. There's a lesson in there, somewhere.

In other news, I feel like beating my head against a rock, because I think I am falling for my wonderful friend, who happens to be a lesbian. It's more inconvenient than anything. I guess it'll pass. But she's always so damned supportive and she always does something, like draw me a picture or perform a vaudeville routine, whenever she knows I'm being morose about something. She's just one of those people it's difficult not to be attracted to (my other friends are also nursing crushes, but it is no fair, because they are women and I am a man). I guess the whole orientation conflict is somewhat good, as I will never, ever get my hopes up and thus never, ever irrevocably ruin anything (not in the usual ways, at least). By God, I'm going to settle for being friends, and I'm going to like it.

Oh, story sort of tying these things together. Remember the friend I posted about awhile back who got attached to the crazy woman and disappeared, only to reappear, and then disappear again? Well he reappeared again. There was a free concert (that was quite good, there was an unexpectedly post-rock-y opener) tonight and I wanted to drag him along. He said he would call me, but he did not. Last night, we ran into him by chance at the supermarket, and he said that he probably couldn't come because he had a family dinner at 4:00 this afternoon that he had to attend. Well, those people that we cut in line behind at the Obama rally? They were my friend's family, who we ran into completely by chance. He was not with them. The rally ended at 4:30, and his family was there for the duration. So he lied to my face, basically. He also told me that the reason he didn't answer his phone was because he didn't get reception at his place, which I suspected was a lie, since his phone rang and my other friend's (who actually has this problem) phone does not ring when he's out of a serviced area. So I'm betting that was a lie as well.

So that's what my old friend does. He calls me out of the blue when he's bored, we hang out for an hour and a half (never longer), he tells me he'll call me (he never does) and he talks about all the free time he has (which he can never spare) I've about had it. He's been out of my life for years now, I figure I shouldn't let him be half-in (or 1/10th in, as the case may be) so I'm not even going to worry myself over it. But I did tonight, as I attended the concert alone. My best friend told me she'd try to come, but she volunteered at the rally today and she was too frazzled. I was hoping I'd see her, as she's the best for lifting my black moods. Luckily for me, my two other friends showed up halfway through the show and the one I'm falling for drew my portrait on a cocktail napkin.

tl;dr I am very fortunate.

Man, there's a lot of stuff I could go on about, but I've typed entirely too much already.

[valley_parade]

I never hung out with that girl. Ker-sigh.

[Liz]

Shane: Sad! I had high hopes!

Jens: Ouch.

[Jace]

I have three days in a row off this week. Other than not getting moneys, that's pretty cool. I am getting teeth drilled tomorrow, I pray that they are okay. I really don't want to have them pulled or anything. (they is my wisdom teef getting drilled)

[tuna ketchup x]

I need an employment lawyer. I do not have the money for an employment lawyer. Therefore, the baseless, hostile attacks against me and another worker will continue. He can transfer out of here, I can't. Every workday gets exponentially worse and now I understand the mentality of workplace shooters. In this economy, when you've got your proverbial pants around your hypothetical ankles and are being whipped daily by a metaphorical paddle, it's fight or flight and it's unwise to fly, so you pretty much have to suck it up. It's a struggle not to just lash out and start tearing out eyes with my thumbs. (Obligatory "I'm not really going to shoot/mangle my coworkers" statement.) I don't even know how my male coworker can stand it, because there's gender stuff going on too. Never ever ever work for the government, kids.

[Edith]

Tuna, contact your local bar association. Ask if there's anyone who deals withyour type of complaint who can work pro bono. Lots of lawyers just really enjoy suing people and seeing wrongs made right.

[tuna ketchup x]

Tuna, contact your local bar association. Ask if there's anyone who deals withyour type of complaint who can work pro bono. Lots of lawyers just really enjoy suing people and seeing wrongs made right.

I have a meeting with my supervisor's supervisor on Thursday, during which I'm going to document everything, even use the microphone on my mp3 player if allowed. I know my coworker is planning to leave so he's not in for blood, and if I get my internship for library school, I'll be out of here in January too. However, if I don't get it I'll have to stay here for at least another season, and that's when I'll get legal. Basically, they are trying to switch up my job duties which is illegal in government work (whatever your class is, that's what you do, even if there's not enough work for you to do which is my quandary), and also making comments about my "unsociability" and "unapproachableness" just because I don't go to the same church as all of them and I (and the dude) are like twenty years younger than most of them. And don't hang out with them outside of work. The crown jewel came when my supe said "this job can't be just a paycheck, we're a big family, a bunch of sisters." Sry, but no. I have my own friends (who seem to think I'm plenty social thx), I don't want to fraternize with a bunch of 50 year olds. So ever since the evaluations of me and the dude things have been 1000x worse. Esp for me, because of the illegal task shifting. I won't even get into the stuff they say/do because it sounds petty on screen but very real in life.

Someone who left the office at the same time I came in said this supervisor is the worst boss she's had in thirty years of working life, same with the working environment, which she described as "oppressive." How do people like this come so "far"? (Far being a relative term.)

[Dimmukane]

I scratched my car on someone else's driver side mirror. 

[20 jazz funk greats]

blog thread!i am still very busy and stressed out with school and despite the fact that i have worked harder than i have ever worked in my life, my grades continue to be terrible which terrifies me because i am supposed to graduate this year or something. i have three exams in the next three days and one involves memorizing a three inch pile of articles on women's health and psychology which is a fucking impossible amount of information and i am trying to rationalize this by going "it's okay, it's an impossible amount of information and my professor will be reasonable" only i already had an exam involving memorizing an equally massive pile of articles on community mental health and prevention strategies which i stayed up all night for and ended up completely failing anyway because it was fucking insane hard.oh goodness gracious what am i going to do

your situation sounds very similiar to mine (same subjects even), except i'm not graduating anytime soon and i don't even know if i am going to be allowed to write my midterms that i missed and ahhhh i am getting very anxious again oh god. the fact that i spent this weekend at home with the parents who just keep putting additional pressure on me about anything academic didn't help.
ahhhhh.

[Elizzybeth]

I bought American Gods (By Neil Gaiman).

This is a really good book.

[Ladybug]

Re: The VG frontpage

That very same newspaper had an article about how a football player got kicked in the butt (that was the whole event - the guy acted sort of dickish, they brushed him aside, he kicked him in the butt, they left) when he was out celebrating winning the league in one of their top 3 stories online at some point today as well. And a couple of weeks ago, the third largest newspaper (Dagbladet) dedicated an entire article + video to the fact that a football player got his sneakers wet in a failed prank. I love Norwegian newspapers at times.