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[spryng]

Wisdom teeth are out. That went surprisingly... painless. I got to wake up a little later than usual since lady wasn't going to work in order to take me. She brought me there and within a few minutes of arriving they had me in the room and with an IV and laughing gas and I had just been thinking about how all I could feel were the effects of the nitrous oxide (one of the few things I like about the dentist >>) and then they were waking me up and I had gauze in my mouth. It's a little weird not being able to remember anything about the actual taking the teeth out part, but being put under is no longer as scary. I was able to never even look at the IV. Yay.

So lady brought me home after grabbing the pain killers and penicillin and I've been subsisting on coffee, pudding, and pills since. So far it's been rather uneventful, in that my cheeks ache a little and I felt a little loopy after I took the first pain killer. Otherwise all's fine. I can talk, although extended talk makes it ache more. I can think. I actually feel quite great. I've locked myself in my room so that I can work a little on the Monster, in fact. This is not at all how I was expecting to feel the first day, but I guess it means I can work tomorrow.

As for classes, they start next week, and I've decided not to take the German class. I should. I want to. But it's my last semester, and I have a lot to read in German for my thesis which I feel makes up for it. So, schedule thus far:
Monday: 11am Greek
12:30pm Ancient Novel
Tuesday: 12:30pm Latin (Catullus)
Wednesday: 11am Greek
Thesis tutorial?
Thursday: 12:30pm Ancient Novel
Friday: 11am Greek
12:30pm Latin



Speaking of thesis I'm wavering back towards the feeling okay about my thesis after Brendan's bacc on Wednesday, which went well, and also reminded me that a thesis is not necessarily a ground-breaking piece of work. If I dig up some stuff on Latin-Gothic interaction and make a few valid points of my own and tie it all together, that will be good enough. Right? Hopefully?

On another note, I love tutoring. The family is so funny. And it's so rewarding getting her to figure things out on her own, even if it takes prodding from me. She's learning and I can see it because they're things I taught her that I can get her to reproduce. Makes me feel a little more confident about my explaining abilities. Also, her mom is so funny, and has been offering my wine or beer almost every session, which I've refused, until the last session where she just gave me a bottle of wine and some wineglasses and a wine opener and remarked on my resilience and how the last tutor had given in to the liquor within the first few weeks. xp I mean, the kid can be a pain sometimes, but that just means you have to be a pain right back. Lol, though. And the glasses are gorgeous. o.o() Only problem then is that I feel like I have to be the best tutor ever.

Okay, getting more coffee and then going to write a page. Woo!

Comments

[mazzikin.livejournal.com]

Woo! I'm glad you're having a good time. And that the dental procedure went so smoothliy. Hopefully I will see you and the Lady sometime soon. :)

[therealbenni.livejournal.com]

Hooray for things going well! Also, hooray for fellow tutors who enjoy their jobs!

[innocentwater.livejournal.com]

Oh man! I missed Brendan's bacc??? @_@ I didn't even see stuff for it. Well damn.

I'm actually fairly creeped out by the idea of being put under. What was the laughing gas like? I mean, did it smell different or anything? Did you just 'daydream' sort of?

Also, were you able to find the sheet? There are some older versions available online, but, well, they're outdated and don't have the same stuff the SAC needs to know now.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! Yeah, we didn't know about it except through Shaw, who had to postpone one of Ana's meetings because of the bacc. He really didn't advertise at all, which makes me wonder how exactly he got away with the "must make public bacc announcement to student body" part. But is okay, there was just me, Justin, and Ana there along with his family, and he seemed to like it that way. As in, not many people aside from his family. It was also an awesome bacc, although it went over quite a bit, time-wise.

Mmm, laughing gas. It smells a little... cotton candy-y without the taste of sugar and it feels like oxygen dep, which is pretty much what it is. It causes depersonalization and makes you feel as if you're nothing but your sight floating above you in the room. Everything else means nothing to you. You can still respond to things and think if you try hard enough, but everything sounds like you're in a tank, and the background noises just get louder. I find myself usually just staring at the ceiling without actually thinking, and time goes by much faster. I love the stuff, because you don't care that someone has their hands in their mouth and things hurt. Also, I think it's supposed to numb your whole body a little, too, so things don't hurt as much. So that + novocaine means much better dentist trips. I mean, for my root canal all I had was novocaine and nitrous oxide and even though I could feel them practically in my jaw bone, I didn't care.

I think Michelle's found the sheet. She hadn't told me that she'd contacted you already. xp We'll be going to the SAC on Sunday. Thanks!

[spryng.livejournal.com]

Yeah! It really makes me want to try and tutor when I get to Seattle. What's the company you're with? I feel as if I saw them advertising when I searched the Seattle wanted Ads, but maybe it was a different group.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

You coming down??

[mazzikin.livejournal.com]

Every Tuesday for game night at Shadowedge & Pairodox's house. The former Hoarhouse. We usually go to the Cock & Bull afterwards.

[therealbenni.livejournal.com]

WHIZard Academy... They're mostly in Canada, but have recently been expanding in the US.