I wanted to write a very different entry!
Instead I am panicking about my teeth.
So, when I was a first year in college, I broke my front tooth. Fell on my face in a concrete hallway and it just snapped in half. Yeah, it was about that fun. So, one of my front teeth is half of a resin fake! Almost exactly a year ago, it fell out while I was eating a baguette, and I had to get it fixed again. Part of what that dentist did was basically solder my two front teeth together, with resin. It was always meant to be temporary, until I could get a crown, though I was never certain whether I particularly wanted this dentist to be the one making the crown.
Tonight that resin bridge soldering my two front teeth together fell out. And now I'm panicking, because the first week of grad school? Is not the time I would like to be worrying about whether I'm only going to have one and a half front teeth again. I've left the dentist a message, even though I'm not even sure if my student insurance covers dental, if it's kicked in yet (since I haven't paid for it). If he has free time tomorrow morning, maybe he can help, since I don't have class in the morning, but STILL. I was really looking forward to, I don't know, sleeping in or going to the grocery store or something. DAMMIT.
That said, the first day of class was great! Law & Ethics of Journalism will hopefully involve more discussion and less the professor going through the material that was covered in the reading, and I am trying not to get too bent out of shape about some literature things he's included that are not... correct (starting off the textbook with the Polonius "To thine own self be true" speech... that speech is not about what you think it is about!). The Methods bit, the learning-by-doing with technology, involved that professor speeding through a bunch of technical stuff about DSLR cameras and then tossing us onto the streets for an hour to take pictures and come back to have him give feedback. I really liked that part! Apparently I am good at approaching strangers and chatting with them and getting them to open up so I can take their picture. I may will post a few later, if I can stop panicking about my teeth.
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So, when I was a first year in college, I broke my front tooth. Fell on my face in a concrete hallway and it just snapped in half. Yeah, it was about that fun. So, one of my front teeth is half of a resin fake! Almost exactly a year ago, it fell out while I was eating a baguette, and I had to get it fixed again. Part of what that dentist did was basically solder my two front teeth together, with resin. It was always meant to be temporary, until I could get a crown, though I was never certain whether I particularly wanted this dentist to be the one making the crown.
Tonight that resin bridge soldering my two front teeth together fell out. And now I'm panicking, because the first week of grad school? Is not the time I would like to be worrying about whether I'm only going to have one and a half front teeth again. I've left the dentist a message, even though I'm not even sure if my student insurance covers dental, if it's kicked in yet (since I haven't paid for it). If he has free time tomorrow morning, maybe he can help, since I don't have class in the morning, but STILL. I was really looking forward to, I don't know, sleeping in or going to the grocery store or something. DAMMIT.
That said, the first day of class was great! Law & Ethics of Journalism will hopefully involve more discussion and less the professor going through the material that was covered in the reading, and I am trying not to get too bent out of shape about some literature things he's included that are not... correct (starting off the textbook with the Polonius "To thine own self be true" speech... that speech is not about what you think it is about!). The Methods bit, the learning-by-doing with technology, involved that professor speeding through a bunch of technical stuff about DSLR cameras and then tossing us onto the streets for an hour to take pictures and come back to have him give feedback. I really liked that part! Apparently I am good at approaching strangers and chatting with them and getting them to open up so I can take their picture. I may will post a few later, if I can stop panicking about my teeth.
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comments. I would love to hear from you at DW! If you can see this post, you can comment here using OpenID. Thanks!