Bye Bye Wisdom Tooth

Although there was no video game in the office to calm me before the procedure, my tooth was just extracted. However, Lime was there and it did help calm my (admittedly minor) jitters. I feel fine, I didn’t even know the tooth was out till I saw the dentist go in with the curved needle to stitch up the gum. (And he wouldn’t have showed me the tooth if I hadn’t asked to see it. He’d already disposed of it and had to tweezer it out of the bio-waste cup on his tray for me to have a look.) No …

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Possibly Impending Blip

Hey everyone. If I go quiet for a few days or a week or something, don’t be surprised. While you are going about your daily life, working in offices or classrooms or clinics or whatever, dancing in nightclubs, sipping beer in front of the TV, and whatever else you do in your lives, I’ll probably be lying down on the floor, on my sleeping mat, curled up in pain and whimpering as the last hit of analgesics wears off and the next one slowly begins taking effect. That’s right, I’m going to see the dentist today about getting my wisdom …

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What To Study?

Well, I’ve been looking at my transcripts a lot lately, as I’ve been preparing my submissions package for this promotion process that’s been going on at work. You know, my academic standing wasn’t as great as I thought it was—my music courses, especially my theory courses, dragged down my mark, as did the saxophone performance courses I took, and which I can’t understand having bothered taking, with all the hindsight I have now. But anyway, I’ve lately been thinking of studying more. I mean, I’m always kind of studying things, I know. But the more I live, the more I …

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