Hello Readers!
On Tuesday morning I had the most bizarre experience… for several hours I lost all feeling in my mouth and the tip of my nose, and I hadn’t been drinking or punched in the mouth. For the first time in my life I got a local anesthetic for having my tooth drilled at the dentists. Usually my fear of needles overrules the discomfort of having my teeth drilled and so despite having my fair share of fillings, I had never before encountered this numbing experience (well, not while sober anyway).
I have to say I found the entire thing rather amusing, and had to remind myself that just because it doesn’t hurt is not a good reason not to keep hitting myself on the nose. If I had known it felt like that I might have had it more often when I went to the dentist, it would have made the dentist a bit less skittish that if he or she hit a nerve I was going to bite off their fingers. So it turns out the dentist is not so bad after all, and he even let me keep the offending broken tooth that had sent me to the dentist in the first place. I should put it in the bathroom to remind myself to floss daily and brush for three minutes, or what ever it is they say you should do for ‘proper’ cleaning.
After class today I had to go back though because the new tooth that the dentist had built felt so strange still that I was worried he might of misjudged the size and made it stick out more than my other teeth, but he took a look and decided that it was fine. Unfortunately no more numb face today, I’ll just have to wait till next week when he wants to check the rest of my teeth seeing as I haven’t been to a dentist before yesterday, in over 18 months. Not long by some peoples standards but I used to go every year at least, sometimes twice, just to make sure everything was okay.
The other exciting thing I did today was go and talk to the admins at the humanities and social sciences faculty about when I can graduate, and the good news is, after this term I only have to study part time, 1 paper per semester for three more semesters and then I am all finished. Unfortunately the parts I have left to do are Japanese language papers, and they only have 1 per semester, and I have to do them in order so there doesn’t seem to be a way to fast track and finish any sooner, but the International Relations and Asian Studies majors will be all finished, and I might even have enough free time to start looking for a real job again.
If those of you in charge of the ‘recesion’ would just kindly pack up your doom and gloom toys and give people a bit of extra cash to start hiring more staff again it would really help my chances of finding some work and that would be much appreciated thank you! Though in all seriousness I have so far felt no direct effects of the recession so I am slightly curious to see how much harder it really does make it to find a good job. Otherwise I will just have to resort to becoming a professional poker player and winning my way to riches.
Well for now I am off to sleep because tomorrow I need to write a 2500 word essay arguing the fact that there was no true nationalism in Japan until WW2. I’m not even sure I can win the argument, but at least I’ll try, after all I need to pass this paper so my statement about only needing 1 paper per semester is still true.
Good night, and if anyone knows where I can get local anesthetic and learn how to use it, let me know! that stuff was fun!