Take out your fucking retainer, put it in your purse

[sovay]

I've had to get a year's worth of braces because the alternative was my teeth grinding into one another at angles that were causing them to splinter and would necessitate things like crowns and lots of composite if not realigned. The effects of this on my daily life are substantially nastier than I was led to believe and I don't know what the adjustment period is going to be like. Things inside my head are kind of terrible right now.

Hana Vojáčková's Milk & Sea. I think I love best the Icelandic mermaid with her trout-silver tail and the rill of turf-breaking rock that looks like a stream, but there is something about the German mermaid waiting for her bus, or maybe just watching the nighttime, commercial sea, that is a story all in one frame. I shouldn't write it before I write something with trees. Right now I am having trouble believing I will ever write anything, full stop.

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Damn. Damn, I'm sorry. *hugs if wanted*

I love the bus-stop mermaid, also the one in the snow.

You'll write again. I have faith.

[sovay]

*hugs if wanted*

Sure. My arms don't hurt.

*hugs*

(I came home this afternoon and crawled into bed with derspatchel and was very upset for a while.)

I love the bus-stop mermaid, also the one in the snow.

The one in the snow is interesting because she's the only direct interaction with water in its natural habitat. (I've been trying to figure out what the Portuguese mermaid is doing—it almost looks like laundry, drawing up cloth as white as moving water.) I love the winter wear for the human parts of her, while the tail rests happily in the ice-edged pond.

You'll write again. I have faith.

Thank you. Part of what I'm feeling is that I was already dealing with nearly unendurable levels of pain, and then I paid someone a great deal of money to add more on top. Add the disruption of daily routine and I am feeling as though I don't know how I am going to manage the next week, never mind the full coming year. I don't want 2014 to be the year that was ruined by my braces and my inability to deal. I just wanted to enjoy it. I didn't think that was unreasonable of me.