Whining again

[resonant]

Broken tooth, insane solitude deprivation, plagiarism, and the general state of the Res.



1. Well. I broke a tooth a couple of weeks ago, doing nothing more out of the ordinary than eating lunch at Taco Bell. My right bicuspid. Went to the dentist today thinking I was going to walk out with a temporary crown, and instead walked out with a half-ground tooth and the name of a guy who specializes in root canals.

No, I don't even have an appointment for a root canal. I have an appointment for a consultation about a root canal, after which I will have the actual root canal two weeks later, followed by two appointments at three-week intervals to get the crown, damn it, which puts me at almost Halloween before they're done working with my mouth.

I should look at the bright side. Right now it doesn't hurt at all -- even if I swish icewater over it. And my father has had three root canals and insists that they don't hurt as much as getting a cavity filled. (Of course, my father also quit smoking in three days, so he could be described as atypical, but I'll take my bright sides where I can.)

2. You know how some people say they're married to their jobs? I never intended for this job to be anything more than a temporary fling, and it is getting way too serious. It wants me to go to its best friend's wedding. It is pressuring me to meet its parents.

Linda, the nutty boss, hired two people to fill the job permanently, and naturally I thought she'd be done with me at that point, but she seems to think that she's going to continue to need all of us. Gah.

Part of me thinks I shouldn't complain. It's such easy work that I usually take along a library book; yesterday I got through half of Ernest Jones' On the Nightmare. Well, but while I can read, I can't write. Since finishing Higher Education, I've poked around at a few long-term projects, fleshing out characters and trying to solve plot problems, but I haven't written anything at all.

3. It doesn't help that the kidlet's summer school ended the 12th, and they don't start first grade till Friday, so they're bored in the afternoons. Unless I take them to the pool, in which case I'm bored. Kidlet duty is like work, in that I can read while I'm doing it, but I can't write.

4. This is typical of kidlet's school, which is run by people who are sweet but vague: I hear through the parent grapevine that classes have moved to another location, but I have yet to hear that from any official source, nor can I reach any of the official sources by phone. Guess we'll just show up for orientation at the place where the parent grapevine says they'll be, and if they're not there ... um, since the public schools started a week and a half ago, and they're six and thus officially truant, I suppose we're, uh, homeschooling them. Yeah, that.

4. Darling Rickie took down "Gravity Works," but robriki points out that she has another story that incorporates slivers of Transfigurations. I've reported that one to ffn, too. I still can't bear to read the rest of her stories, so I have no idea whether there's more of my stuff in them or not.

edited 2020 to retroactively correct the kidlet's gender pronouns

Comments

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

That story link doesn't work, so maybe they took it down.

I hope you can find tme to write soon.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, that's good news. And thanks; me too.

[katherine]

I hope the boredom passes soon, and there can be writing time.

I had a root canal and didn't find it horrible; researcher that I am, having read about the process helped, plus then I got to tell the person poking in my mouth about a website called Animated Teeth.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's a really useful site. I'd done some internet research, but I hadn't found that one.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

What kind of school does the kidlet go to?

I always dread the two weeks between camp and the restart of school. You'd think I could amuse a 3-year-old that long, but...no.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

She goes to Montessori. Thank goodness they're better at teaching than they are at communicating.

Eek, 3-year-olds -- they're really difficult. Not as difficult as 18-month-olds, but they need some serious attention. Kidlet's 6 and a half now, so she can entertain herself for long periods of time -- it's just that you can't predict when all independence will suddenly come to an end.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

She goes to Montessori. Thank goodness they're better at teaching than they are at communicating.

I wondered if it was Montessori...so good at so many things, and yet... The one here has an excellent reputation, but not a lot of admin. organization.

[netbyrd.livejournal.com]

Does she go to a little private school or something? I'm so unknowledgable about this whole school thing right now since I'm homeschooling kindergarden.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she's at Montessori. We like the school, but the communication is dreadful. All the parents joke about it. (Which is why one of the other moms cornered me at the pool to tell me all about the move -- she knew that chances were I wouldn't have heard about it any other way.)

[netbyrd.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like Montessori! I always thought that way of learning was only for the very young preschool ages! I homeschool right now though, so I suppose it doesn't matter for the moment.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Our local school goes through grade 4; I understand that in larger towns you can find Montessori schools that go all the way through high school.

I'm a little concerned about tracking her progress, and making sure she gets a well-rounded education in such a self-directed system.

But on the other hand, the public schools around here are -- well, this is a town where people are proud to be ignorant. There was a local controversy about teaching "The Miller's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales in high school, and a teacher -- a teacher! -- wrote a letter to the editor that said, "I'm proud to say that I've never read any Chaucer." So I certainly wasn't going to let her loose in that school system!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I have had far too many root canals, due to an accidental meeting of my face and the pavement. It really isn't that bad. Just expensive and sort of uncomfortable.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

That's reassuring. I wonder where they got the reputation for being so horribly painful?

due to an accidental meeting of my face and the pavement

Was this a "and then my Harley went out of control because of the ice storm" sort of thing, or (as it would be for me) a "and then I was so engrossed in my book that I accidentall stepped off the curb and fell on my face" sort of thing?

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Sort of in between. I went for a bicycle ride on some twisty mountain roads, and woke up in the hospital with a mouthful of rocks that turned out to be my teeth.

Root canal reputation

[onyx-starr.livejournal.com]

They got their rep righteously...from people who had bad ones... Usually just soreness, tedious and achy.

Sorry to be bearer of bad tidings but when complications arise (sinus cavity invading roots or deeply curved root tips or even multiple rooted upper teeth) hell on earth inescapable except by complete unconciousness can occur. Been on the sinus invader end of the equation as well as being a former dental assistant.

Ask questions at the consult..he/she has your x-rays and will tell you if possibilities are in the offing...precautions...take the day off from work, send all persons likely to catch fallout away and have icepacks and drugs at your fingertips...

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

You've probably already seen it, but just in case...thefourthvine has lovely things to say about Advantage and Abstain in her latest rec opus today. :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I saw! I squealed!

[wildmachinery.livejournal.com]

which puts me at almost Halloween before they're done working with my mouth.

Hey, you're lucky. My dentist is so overbooked I have to wait six months between the temporary-crown-appointment and the permanent-crown-appointment. But put your mind at ease; root canals really aren't as bad as they're made out to be. Personally, I find the cavity-filling process to be far more traumatic and gruesome.

but I haven't written anything at all.

Oh, thank god, it's not just me. *g*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

That's comforting -- thanks.

And, yes, writing=zero. Sad.

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

Depending on your root-canal dentist's style, you may wind up with amazingly dramatic bruises (can you tell I've had one?), but the canal work itself, while it was not exactly a joy forever or a thing of beauty, was vaguely endurable. I have no idea how the bruises got there. Unless you belong to a remarkably benighted school of dentistry your teeth and surrounding areas will be numb by the time they start actual operations. The trick is to stay as numb as possible for as long as possible afterward.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Huh -- thanks -- nobody warned me about the bruises. Great, something else to look forward to. (I guess I can just tell people I got in a bar fight.)

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

4. This is typical of kidlet's school,
4. Darling Rickie took down "Gravity Works,"

Erm, something about your numbering seems a bit strange. :D

Egad, good luck with the plagiarist, though. Is it the same one who's been rousing so much ire lately, with her "just so I can read them" stolen fics? (I tried the link, but received a 404.) Eurgh. What a nauseating little plague she's becoming.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Right, right, I'm so addled I can't count.

It's not the same plagiarist -- I took a look at the one you're talking about, but I wasn't one of the victims. Don't know whether to be grateful or insulted!

[kupukello.livejournal.com]

Ack. I HATE that about schools! The school our first grader is going to has a nifty web page. Unfortunately that web page hasn't been updated all summer, I actually had to call them a day before school start to ask for the information that should be on the web page. Apparently teachers' summer vacation (only 2.5 months here *headdesk*) is hallowed time and that can't be used for menial labour like updating the school's official web pages. *grrr*

And I totally agree with you on the kidlet duty being like work. It is. Even reading is quite difficult at times, you can read one sentence and then you're interrupted, and then it takes long moments to figure out where you were and what was happening, and then you get interrupted again. *sigh*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Our school doesn't have a website, but the newsletter is legendary for burying important information (such as the dates for teacher conferences) in the middle of half-page-long paragraphs that begin "Many thanks to the parents who contributed craft supplies" and end "Don't forget to collect your boxtops ..."

The kidlet is really very good as kidlets go -- she'll read for sometimes an hour at a time -- it's just that you can't predict when the interruption is going to come, so I can't develop any momentum.

[http://users.livejournal.com/solo____/]

I've had lots of root canals. With proper local anaesthesia, you won't notice a thing.

Shame about the writing... I like your stuff.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Eep -- how does someone end up having to have lots of root canals? [pats you gently]

And thanks for the sympathy, too. The nice thing about school vacations is that they do end eventually!

[http://users.livejournal.com/solo____/]

Lots of root canals - one word: cysts. Yuck. I've had much worse than root canals. Root canals, I laugh in your face. BWAHAHAHAHA!

Um. I'll calm down now. Anyway, I hope it goes well (for a certain value of 'well' that applies to dentistry) for you.

haha,Montessori

[proscription.livejournal.com]

Dear, dear Montessori.I went to a K-12 Montessori school, although I started in 7th grade. Until my senior year, There was no officer people. if someone was walking by the office and heard the phone ring( student, teacher, whatever, didnt matter) you answered it. If not, it was not answered.

Im happy to say, however, that I entered college as a sophmore becuase of all the AP credits I got.

And I went to Europe twice.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Belatedly replying -- I love this story! I told it to the spouse, and he was very pleased to hear that you ended up with a good education; that's the main thing. We can deal with people being vague.