I wish I had a snowday. Instead I have a sub and having to go to the district offices tomorrow day, which means that, tonight, which are parent teacher conferences, I am scrambling like mad to make sure I have sub plans.

My French-Canadian heritage, but not French speaking, stepmother said "close the light" instead of "turn off the light."

There are so many of these in my daily life since almost all of my students speak Spanish as their first language. The one I can think of right now is when kids are told to put something away they will talk about disappearing it.

I also hear "drink pills" and "volume up" the radio.

le nubian, I won't lie, it's not fun, but for all my whining...ok, it isn't fun. But unlike when I had 7 extractions, I don't hate my dentist after.

Also, does your dentist do crowns in house same-day? If not, it'll be a two visit process: one to get a mold and do a buildup and put in a temp. That's really the hard part. Second will be the fitting and less traumatic- pretty much just popping off the temp and glueing in the perm.

Mine has this awesome tech in which they image the tooth and then make adjustments so that it can be better than the original tooth (getting rid of pits and snags and where I had gaps that shit always got stuck in) and send it off to this machine: [link] which carves it out of a block while you wait. Took about 10 minutes of carving per crown. After an hour of them tweaking the crowns on the computer (3D! Rotation!) So just one visit for me.

Last time I waited in the waiting room while they did this, but this time, I was sleepy (sudafed) so asked if I could just nap in the chair. So I ended up watching them do all the computer stuff. Cool imagining and tweaking and it was very geeky.

as someone going in for a crown (for the first time) in 11 days, sarameg's descriptions are not filling me with glee.

Don't worry, it's not necessarily going to be that rough. My mom just had 5 done and wasn't that bothered by it. My own was only really tender for a day or so, and there wasn't any scabbing. (The temporary crown does feel kind of weird, but when they replace it with the permanent one it feels just like your regular teeth.)

it'll be a two visit process: one to get a mold and do a buildup and put in a temp. That's really the hard part.

WTF.

I gotta have 2 visits for this shit?

oh hell no.

Matt,

I appreciate the reassurance. It is not working.

They'll probably offer gas to calm you down - take it and you won't be worried at all during the procedure.

My new dentist recommended a new crown for my one that's always been kind of fucked up, but I don't think I care enough to spend the money.

As long as pain is dealt with, I will be okay. But I am not altogether sure I need the crown in the first place, so that's part of my hesitation. I think I'm going to have him do the 2 fillings and he will have to explain to me why I need the crown.

They'll probably offer gas to calm you down - take it and you won't be worried at all during the procedure.

Yeah. I had that when I had my wisdom teeth out. They first gave me a low dose of it, but then when they started poking around in my mouth, I just kind of instinctively started squirming away. So they gave me a bit more, and tried again, and I hadn't felt any sort of "Wow, that stuff just started working" or anything, but I just didn't care anymore that there were sharp things in my mouth.