Take out your fucking retainer, put it in your purse

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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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Stuff happening in the mouth is a particular form of torture--which is why it gets used as a particular form of torture.

Doctors also inveterately underestimate the pain and disruption something will cause :-(

Of course you will write something. You have been amazing in the last three months. Little Wittgenstein may want to tell you you never will write again, but little Spock must say that logically speaking, the trend is quite to the contrary.

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Stuff happening in the mouth is a particular form of torture--which is why it gets used as a particular form of torture.

I didn't even have anything against dentists! My childhood dentist reminded me of a hobbit and my orthodontist in middle and high school raised calla lilies! I find it very unfair that in full adulthood I'm having to feel prickly and resentful and vaguely nightmarish about a discipline I never took personally before.

Little Wittgenstein may want to tell you you never will write again, but little Spock must say that logically speaking, the trend is quite to the contrary.

Thank you. I am working on trusting that. I just feel like all my brain is going toward keeping in motion, rather than collapse.