I have flowers! Red roses, with a note that says "I believe in you."

I told my boss about DH's Napoleonic stripper remark, since she happened to be in the office when it popped up in my chat window and I laughed aloud. So when the flowers came she said, "No Napoleon?" I said no, but that was OK, because Napoleon didn't have that good of a body, but if it was Wellington...

Fortunately, my boss laughed, and not in a nervous "back away from the weird" way. I think I may have finally found the right workplace...

Happy birthday, Nicole!!!

I think I may have finally found the right workplace...

Yay, Susan!!

Comcast is here and hooking me up. Yay!! Cable TeeVee!!

And, it was a short day for me today. Teacher inservice day and I was done with my meetings right at 3. This afternoon was kinda nice. All 4 district middle school drama teachers got together and went over our respective curriculae. Got some great ideas.

Happy Birthday, Nicole!

My standard for worst pain is ruptured ovarian cyst. Coming in at a close second was knee surgery and bone pain from chemo.

Fortunately, considering my considerable ability to hurt myself, my pain threshold is pretty high. When there were students who wouldn't hit the women students hard, my karate instructor would have them punch me repeatly until they got over it. (This was with my permission. I think I took kind of a perverse pride in it.)

Happy Birthday, Nicole!

I'm on Day 3 of a migraine, so I'ma rate that pretty fucking high. Though at least this one doesn't hurt so bad I can't sleep. I had one of those, and it was baaad. Definitely hurt more than breaking my arm. Breaking my toe hurt a lot, but mostly when I looked at it and saw it all skewed at an angle. I think the injections they gave in my foot to numb the pain hurt the most though. Which was ridic.

I wonder how much getting the insides of my forearms tattooed is going to hurt?

The tatoo felt like someone was incising my arm with a razor blade. But I knew it would be over, and whenever she paused, it immediately hurt much less (though it continued to hurt for several days later). There were just a couple spots where it was over tendons or something, where it hurt even more. But knowing it was short term made it bearable.

That's where Mr. Jane's daisy is. He said it hurt worse than his shoulder or neck, but again with his wussiness, it's probably just that his forearm was the most recent.

The shocknives feel like you're being sliced, and it's a mindfuck to look down and there's not a mark on you, and of course it fades more quickly than a cut's pain would.

The tasering left burn marks, IIRC. Those were some tough-assed kravvers, but the one who did nothing but grit his teeth is some sort of...well, it scares me.

I can't lie. I now want to try the taser thing. It's not as violent as a normal tasering, because they tape the contacts onto you instead of shooting hooks (that I think you need to have medically removed) into your flesh.

And then the current comes.

And then the current comes.

No, no. It's "then the ice weasels come."

It might be worse having the ice weasels taped to your chest, though.

I don't know nothing about being tasered, but when my dentist checked my teeth to see if I needed root canal he used an electrical charge on my teeth which stimulated the nerve directly and that hurt like a motherfucker.

he used an electrical charge on my teeth which stimulated the nerve directly

Things like this are why I refuse to believe the Modern Pain-Free Dentistry propaganda. I mean, I know they're necessary and all, but I'm so not buying that the fuckers are anything other than crazy sadists who taught gitmo everything they know.

I mean, I know they're necessary and all, but I'm so not buying that the fuckers are anything other than crazy sadists who taught gitmo everything they know.

As it turns out, you can do the same test for tooth sensitivity using a piece of ice. Which is not a sharp jolt of electricity into your dental nerves.