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It dawns on me that I'm terrified of flossing.
I had long since forgotten why I don't floss, but thinking "Hey, I should start flossing", I bought myself some floss strips things. I used them, and immediately remembered why I don't.
I'm irrationally afaid that the floss is going to pull my teeth out. That it is somehow going to floss itself so far up into my gums as to hook onto the roots of my teeth and pull them right out. Or just cut straight into my gums, revealing my roots, and making my teeth susceptible to falling out.
To type this...it seems so retarded. But if I were to go floss right now...I wouldn't be able to go very far. I feel like my teeth are going to fall out or the itty bitty dental floss string is going to force huge gaps between my teeth. I floss and just can't imagine there is anyway this is doing anything even MODERATELY beneficial to my teeth. I feel like I might as well chew on silverware.
I feel like such a 7th grader.
Tina and I made a "trade". My GameBoy Advance for her Super Nintendo. We traded GAMING SYSTEMS.
She knows in the past I've made repeated laments about how much I love Super Mario World and wish I could play it, but SNES systems are so bloody expensive. And ever since she and I got our DS's for Christmas, she has found her husband loves playing GBA games (the Harry Potter series, the Lord of the Rings series), and he was hogging her DS.
So we swapped. :-p
I went through a whole...thing with the SNES. It didn't want to work, but I managed to bend it to my will. She gave me Super Mario World and Super Mario All-Stars to go with the SNES, I gave her Pokemon Gold to go with the GBA (and I think she's actualy stoked to play it...she likes RPGs with lots of stuff to do in them). I'm more excited about her playing Pokemon than anything else. I am fascinated with sharing my interest with people. The Seahawks, Yugioh, Pokemon, manga, Arrested Development, Hot Fuzz. I love letting people I'm close to share in things I find to be superfun. I'm stoked about talking her through the game and telling her what to do and where to go. I'm a nerd.
I've been having a lot--A LOT--of Election '08 thoughts lately. I seem to find myself talking about it all the time. I'm so...disenchanted with the options. I don't like Obama. I don't like Hillary. I don't like McCain. I go through little wavering periods where I think I could vote for any of them for various reasons, but then I remember that Obama is a celebritician whore, Hillary is insulated a la George W Bush, and McCain is a sell-out who'll do anything to curry favor with an electorate. That's a very brief synopsis of dislike, but I'm feeling...unlike going into whole things. I've played that game before. I really may just sit the election out, but I kind of hate doing so. And I don't like dealing with the whole "If you don't vote, you can't speak" attitude. You know what? That's ridiculous. And my non-vote WILL be my speech. If you offer me the choice between crap and poop, I refuse to partake in the election. My abstaining isn't from apathy or indifference or ignorance; it's born out of disrespect for the horrible options you've given me.
There are moments where I think I could vote for Obama, but you know what? The only reason I'd EVER vote for him is because he's black. And that's as bad of a reason to vote for someone as voting AGAINST him just because he's black. I don't want to vote JUST to off-set other racist voters. I don't like much that he stands for, though, admittedly, I was wow'd by the speech he gave this week. It was probably the single most impressive, poignant speech I've heard delivered in my generation. From a guy who has made mention of invading Pakistan.
Why am I watching figure skating? WTF, ESPN?
Gods, but I have a headache. I'm going to lie down.
I had long since forgotten why I don't floss, but thinking "Hey, I should start flossing", I bought myself some floss strips things. I used them, and immediately remembered why I don't.
I'm irrationally afaid that the floss is going to pull my teeth out. That it is somehow going to floss itself so far up into my gums as to hook onto the roots of my teeth and pull them right out. Or just cut straight into my gums, revealing my roots, and making my teeth susceptible to falling out.
To type this...it seems so retarded. But if I were to go floss right now...I wouldn't be able to go very far. I feel like my teeth are going to fall out or the itty bitty dental floss string is going to force huge gaps between my teeth. I floss and just can't imagine there is anyway this is doing anything even MODERATELY beneficial to my teeth. I feel like I might as well chew on silverware.
I feel like such a 7th grader.
Tina and I made a "trade". My GameBoy Advance for her Super Nintendo. We traded GAMING SYSTEMS.
She knows in the past I've made repeated laments about how much I love Super Mario World and wish I could play it, but SNES systems are so bloody expensive. And ever since she and I got our DS's for Christmas, she has found her husband loves playing GBA games (the Harry Potter series, the Lord of the Rings series), and he was hogging her DS.
So we swapped. :-p
I went through a whole...thing with the SNES. It didn't want to work, but I managed to bend it to my will. She gave me Super Mario World and Super Mario All-Stars to go with the SNES, I gave her Pokemon Gold to go with the GBA (and I think she's actualy stoked to play it...she likes RPGs with lots of stuff to do in them). I'm more excited about her playing Pokemon than anything else. I am fascinated with sharing my interest with people. The Seahawks, Yugioh, Pokemon, manga, Arrested Development, Hot Fuzz. I love letting people I'm close to share in things I find to be superfun. I'm stoked about talking her through the game and telling her what to do and where to go. I'm a nerd.
I've been having a lot--A LOT--of Election '08 thoughts lately. I seem to find myself talking about it all the time. I'm so...disenchanted with the options. I don't like Obama. I don't like Hillary. I don't like McCain. I go through little wavering periods where I think I could vote for any of them for various reasons, but then I remember that Obama is a celebritician whore, Hillary is insulated a la George W Bush, and McCain is a sell-out who'll do anything to curry favor with an electorate. That's a very brief synopsis of dislike, but I'm feeling...unlike going into whole things. I've played that game before. I really may just sit the election out, but I kind of hate doing so. And I don't like dealing with the whole "If you don't vote, you can't speak" attitude. You know what? That's ridiculous. And my non-vote WILL be my speech. If you offer me the choice between crap and poop, I refuse to partake in the election. My abstaining isn't from apathy or indifference or ignorance; it's born out of disrespect for the horrible options you've given me.
There are moments where I think I could vote for Obama, but you know what? The only reason I'd EVER vote for him is because he's black. And that's as bad of a reason to vote for someone as voting AGAINST him just because he's black. I don't want to vote JUST to off-set other racist voters. I don't like much that he stands for, though, admittedly, I was wow'd by the speech he gave this week. It was probably the single most impressive, poignant speech I've heard delivered in my generation. From a guy who has made mention of invading Pakistan.
Why am I watching figure skating? WTF, ESPN?
Gods, but I have a headache. I'm going to lie down.