You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


msbelle - Dec 21, 2010 9:42:05 am PST #12381 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

normal

for you.


Kat - Dec 21, 2010 9:46:27 am PST #12382 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

P-C in the seasonal one ice blocks will hang in the air unsupported.


§ ita § - Dec 21, 2010 9:47:49 am PST #12383 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

for you

Sorry, sassy?


slayeroshadow - Dec 21, 2010 9:57:16 am PST #12384 of 30001
And what's with all the carrots?

I am one of the few people I know who had their wisdom teeth pulled without anesthesia. I imagine it was because my mom couldn't afford it. I do remember the 17 shots of novocaine. I'm also not complaining, anesthesia makes me incredibly sick, which is a very. bad. thing. after a c-section.


Connie Neil - Dec 21, 2010 9:59:12 am PST #12385 of 30001
brillig

I had laughing gas with my wisdom teeth. The doc kept reminding me to breathe through my nose.


JZ - Dec 21, 2010 10:04:07 am PST #12386 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I've never been completely out, just in twilight land. I vaguely remember being chatty during the C-section, once they'd numbed out the hideous neck cramp that had me caterwauling.

I'm sorry Grace was rage-y but so glad she's now chill and the doctor is happy so far!

ION: Today I went upstairs to meet with the person whose position I'm moving into, because she's being moved to her new position a week ahead of schedule so now we've lost a week of prep and transition time. She said she'd be in at 8:30, but when I went up there a little after 9 she hadn't arrived yet so I had to come back down. As I came back in, Rage Nurse said brightly, "You were in an awful hurry to get up there! You're just happy about all this, aren't you?"

What the fuck was I supposed to respond?

Yes, of course I'm just happy, because it'll be nice for a change to go in to work and not feel inadequate, useless and toxic and like I'd be doing everyone a favor if I just jumped off a bridge.

Yes, of course I'm just happy, because you are unkind and small and it makes me ill to share office space with you.

Yes, of course I'm just happy, because you are bitter and poisonous and have a heart the size of a caraway seed, and moving up there makes me just that much less likely to someday be convicted of workplace homicide.

Two more days, and that's IT.


Atropa - Dec 21, 2010 10:06:38 am PST #12387 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

JZ, in your position I would have replied, "Yes, yes I am!" in as cheery a tone as possible, and then not said anything else. Maybe work on spending the rest of the day in as an obnoxiously cheerful mood as possible, even if I was faking it. Because I bet that would drive RageNurse insane.


Ginger - Dec 21, 2010 10:34:20 am PST #12388 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Perhaps you could whistle and sing while you work, JZ, while occasionally saying, "I should pack some more stuff up, because I'm MOVING UPSTAIRS!" and skipping a few steps.

I had my wisdom teeth out with novacaine, but back then it wasn't particularly common to put someone under unless the teeth were impacted. I had trouble with the first one, which wouldn't stop bleeding, and I couldn't sleep, so I went down the dorm hall looking for something to read. A friend said, "I have the perfect book for you" and handed me Dracula, which I read with the taste of blood.


P.M. Marc - Dec 21, 2010 11:02:01 am PST #12389 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I am one of the few people I know who had their wisdom teeth pulled without anesthesia. I imagine it was because my mom couldn't afford it. I do remember the 17 shots of novocaine. I'm also not complaining, anesthesia makes me incredibly sick, which is a very. bad. thing. after a c-section.

Me! Me!

I didn't want to deal with the anesthesia. Some Buffistas may remember my extraction and the pictures of me with my swollen face. It was disturbingly Jackie O.


msbelle - Dec 21, 2010 11:02:07 am PST #12390 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

smonster, insent to your profile addy.