Friday, April 18, 2003 Serving the community through crime
It's been a couple days of bizarre surprises. This morning, for example, I went to the dentist for a filling, and ended up with a root canal. It wasn't as bad as I thought, and I was fascinated that dentists actually use dental dams. I thought it was just a polite fiction.
Still, it took a couple hours, and just about maxxed out my dental benefits for the year. After I graduate, I will have no more dental insurance. Whoopsie. Maybe eating Little Debbie products for breakfast every day for most of my childhood is coming back to haunt me in ways that have nothing to do with my biggie-sized ass. Oh, that's so going in my payback memoir.
The dentist, who is much more hulking, and yet somehow less creepy than my lifelong dentist, tried to relate to me on my level: he and the hygenist were heating the metal poker used to cut the little rubber strings they replaced my nerves with (yeah.). They were using a bic lighter to heat the poker, I was a little uneasy about that, and I must have communicated something with my limpid brown eyes, because Dr. Lurch turned to the hygenist and said, "She must think that she's at an encore of an April Laving show."
I decided I really, really liked Dr. Lurch.
I liked him even better when he explained that the temporary filling he put in meant that I had to be careful, "because right now, essentially, you have a hollow tooth." That's probably the single coolest aspect of my being right now. Spies should be the new pirates.
The big bizarre surprise came yesterday, though. It seems that I've been nominated for my school's community service award. I told my friend Miss Lesch, and she said "Do you do community service?"
The other people being nominated are the go-getters who are active in student government and routinely go and force games and activities on senior citizens. Me, I get arrested. That has to be why my name came up, but it still makes me giggle and giggle. Shit, I haven't even done my court ordered community service yet!
Well, I did house various vagrants in my dorm room off and on for the past couple years. That has to count for something.
posted by Frenz | 4/18/2003 01:03:00 PM
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