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Dear Mountains,
You looked lovely today. Keep up the good work.
Love,
Me
In other news I've finished marking a whole slue of second year religious studies papers on the Bible. I remain not very impressed - also still confused about why I got assigned a course I really know very little about (surprisingly this doesn't stop me from recognizing a good or bad argument). (Well, not entirely confused - someone had to get it because all the religious studies grad students already had TAships, but why did that someone have to be me?)
I think I'm going to go and see The Eagle soon. It promises to be stupid and wrong and racist and AWESOME. Plus it's totally about Roman Britain and therefore completely relevant to my major research paper (but let's not talk about how my work on that is going...).
I still need to do a full Dental Death post, but in the mean time I've got my crown almost done. I've got the temporary crown in and I'm heading in next Thursday to get the permanent one glued on. I'm going to have a gold tooth! I'm super excited about it (yes, it's in the back). They gave me the option of the porcelain and metal version that would look like a regular tooth, but I decided to go with gold because
a) Gold is awesome and it will go well with my anchor tattoo.
b) I've had enough problems with dental work and I wanted to go with the simplest, least-likely to break version.
c) $50 cheaper doesn't hurt.
and d) I've had so much dental work done in the past two months that it would feel wrong if it didn't leave some kind of a mark (yes, I would feel differently if it was a front tooth).
It was actually pretty funny, since both my dentist and my hygienist were being careful not to influence me and let me come to my own decision (while giving me all the information about the options) but as soon as I said I wanted gold they both told me what a great idea that was. "I wish all my patients got gold crowns" said Dr. Tooth man. I find that kinda amusing.
Anyway, gold tooth next Thursday. Should be exciting!
You looked lovely today. Keep up the good work.
Love,
Me
In other news I've finished marking a whole slue of second year religious studies papers on the Bible. I remain not very impressed - also still confused about why I got assigned a course I really know very little about (surprisingly this doesn't stop me from recognizing a good or bad argument). (Well, not entirely confused - someone had to get it because all the religious studies grad students already had TAships, but why did that someone have to be me?)
I think I'm going to go and see The Eagle soon. It promises to be stupid and wrong and racist and AWESOME. Plus it's totally about Roman Britain and therefore completely relevant to my major research paper (but let's not talk about how my work on that is going...).
I still need to do a full Dental Death post, but in the mean time I've got my crown almost done. I've got the temporary crown in and I'm heading in next Thursday to get the permanent one glued on. I'm going to have a gold tooth! I'm super excited about it (yes, it's in the back). They gave me the option of the porcelain and metal version that would look like a regular tooth, but I decided to go with gold because
a) Gold is awesome and it will go well with my anchor tattoo.
b) I've had enough problems with dental work and I wanted to go with the simplest, least-likely to break version.
c) $50 cheaper doesn't hurt.
and d) I've had so much dental work done in the past two months that it would feel wrong if it didn't leave some kind of a mark (yes, I would feel differently if it was a front tooth).
It was actually pretty funny, since both my dentist and my hygienist were being careful not to influence me and let me come to my own decision (while giving me all the information about the options) but as soon as I said I wanted gold they both told me what a great idea that was. "I wish all my patients got gold crowns" said Dr. Tooth man. I find that kinda amusing.
Anyway, gold tooth next Thursday. Should be exciting!
