i know i haven't updated in forever

[finstergrrrl]

hi everybody. sorry it's been so long. i don't have anything particularly useful to say right now, but i did want to do some sort of update. i had my wisdom teeth out yesterday morning, and i have to say, waiting until the ripe old age of 27 to have it done really worked out in my case. the tops were simple extractions and the bottoms weren't much worse than that. none of the really icky stuff. so i'm taking it easy this weekend, watching the opening round of moto gp (yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay), icing what little swelling i have, and popping advil. (really. advil. they gave me vicodin originally, but based on my other allergies, there's a chance i'd be allergic to that, too. so they said motrin, which i haven't even bothered to fill b/c advil=same stuff.) but anyway. i'd put off doing it forever because i had never had any sort of surgery before and had never been put under or had an IV. my pulse was in the 110 range when they came in to get me started on the IV. the last time someone *mentioned* giving me an IV i puked. i am not kidding. i told them this and told them they'd better be ready to put me under as soon as they got it in, because i wasn't playing about the getting sick part. all that actually went really quickly, even though i cried and whined a little. not a brave patient at all :) but on this side of things i'm being pretty good, actually. i'm not whining much at all. it's a big step for me. everyone said this would be the worst pain i'd ever felt - not a leap for me, since i'm really a stranger to most physical pain - and it turns out i've had cramps way worse than this.

i am going to say more. i am going to talk about hearing rosie perez speak on the sterilization of puerto rican women, and i am going to talk about the classes i'm taking and what color my hair is these days, but right now i have to go kick someone's ass at wii. (i have a wii!) so see y'all later!