On Cordials and Dental Health
Currently reading:
It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, edited by Joe Vallese
NaNoWriMo word count: 20,383
[As of Saturday, November 12, at 8pm]
Books finished this week: 0 (womp womp)
Library updates:
Someday, I will finish another book. None of this week’s days were that day.
I broke a martini glass at a bar on Friday night. It was after only my first martini of the night, which made it even more embarrassing. I was trying to be responsible and drink from my pint glass of ice water, and I suddenly forgot how space and time work.
Before the Martini Glass Incident, I had a lovely walk down memory lane with a friend (hi, Maia!) about the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Strawberry cordial! Columbine the mouse (yikes!)! Cluny the Scourge!! I will absolutely need to bring those books home with me from my parents’ house after the holidays and make those my winter reads.
(I am 112% a badger. Where would you live in the Redwall universe?)
Otherwise, it was a quiet-ish week. I didn’t get as much writing done as I’d hoped or would’ve liked to, but I managed to stay ahead of the projected NaNoWriMo curve and stay on track to his 50k, barring catastrophe. The story is coming along pretty well, too, I think. I’m letting my brain wander all over the plot and write whatever interests me——flashbacks, time jumps. That method is making me far more productive.
Since I don’t have much else to share from this week——and literally zero updates on the reading-books front——I’ll finish off with a list I thought of while at the dentist yesterday morning. I present to you:
Thoughts from the Dentist’s Chair
Should I call this week’s missive “Dental Damn”? (No.)
Do hygienists think it’s creepier when patients keep their eyes open or closed the whole time?
I used to agonize about this and was firmly team Eyes Closed for a few years, but now I keep my eyes open and just kind of stare into the middle distance.
Is that weird?
There was a five-ish year period where the only doctor I kept up with was the dentist. The cleanings are fast, it’s relatively non-invasive, and, so far, I haven’t had any major issues (aside from braces when I was a kid).
A dental hygienist once praised me for opening my mouth just the way she needed me to while she was cleaning my teeth. I wore that vague compliment like a badge of honor for weeks.
I wonder if that hygienist still works at my dentist’s office. I’ve been going to the same place for probably over twenty years now. (That’s wild.)
There was a good song on the radio at the beginning of the appointment, but I forget what it was now.
I hope my baby teeth never fall out. (I still have four baby teeth in my mouth.)
Will people stop reading my blog if I just share a random string of thoughts? (Yes, most likely.)
God, I really need to do laundry.
Closing thoughts:
Listen to what your brain needs, and then do that.
