long day

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so i went to my dentist appointment today during my lunch break at work. a tooth has been sore when i chew way in the back. well it turns out it was a wisdom tooth that came in split and got rotted up. anyway first time at this dentist and half an hour in, ink still wet on my paperwork, and he had a pair of plyers in my mouth pulling out the tooth. wasnt to comfortable. so like i said, this was at lunch. skip ahead about an hour and a half and i am walking the 6 blocks between two of our branches after a tech call and jumped out of the way of a bunch of kids on bicycles who werent paying attention to where they were going. and jumped right into a particularly low hung stop sign. i am sooooo smooth. so i pick myself up feeling all slick and shit for running into a stop sign on foot and make it another half a block when it occurs to me that it is kind of cool out for me to be sweating so much. apparently the stop sign claimed a chunk of my scalp, so now i have blood gushing down my face, dripping on the sidewalk, my clothes, every little place. and i have 4 more blocks to get back to work. now understand the sidewalks are crowded with yuppies in downtown westfield. the impacted knocked my hair out of its pony tail and the blood covering suddenly covering my eyes combined with the throbbing in my jaw and local anestisia to prodcue a certain effect where i sorta started stumbling around kinda dazed, perhaps moaning about brains and dripping all over the place. so ONCE AGAIN this is a test of our zombie awarness system. careful, this was only a test... not one person stopped to see if i was ok. or stopped to stare or even hustle their kids to the other side of the street. they were to busy with their cell phones, gossip, and lunch dates. kinda scarey. so i make it back to work and get hustled over to a utility sink where some of the shop guys help clean me up. kudos to them. they rock. complete as much work as i can till rykee and patti (head lifeguard) convince me that if it is hours later i should really go to the hospital if my head is still bleeding. the other fun tidbit being that if i get lockjaw on account of tetnus i wont feel it due to the dental work. yippie. so off to the hospital we go. Clair Maass in bloomfield is supposed to have an excellent emergency room. all i really know of it is the staff are really nice. all 5 of them in the entire hospital. there have been cut backs. apparently walking in and saying hey i need a couple stiches and a tetnus shot doesnt get u put to the top of the triage list. so 6 hours after i walked in and asked for a tetnus shot and a couple stiches i got to talk to someone. just got home and its now 1am. i am not really sure where i am going with this but my jaw has eased enough that i am gonna go find some breakfast for today ( i knew i should have eaten before i hit the dentist!) so good night NY!

i learned a few things today:

rykee is awsome, she sat with me all night at the hospital.

they guy sitting next to me in the waiting room got a tatoo from some guy in newark hanging out near the train station. i think he will die tonight from the infection so dont do that.

after you get a tetnus shot they make you sit for 10 minutes. i am not quite sure what the nurse expected to happen, i can only guess that 1/10000 people join the wrong side of the upcoming zombie apocylapse a little early. so it was almost me and tatoo guy.

if post tetnus shot zombie seth and newark zombie tatoo guy headed down to westfield nj to get our lurch on and eat some brains we could have taken the entire town.

oh and matt, sorry i didnt make it to the bar tonight.