That's a long dental day. Miso soup, cauliflower leek or scallion soups (run through blender, add cheese.) Blended veg chili works too. While I've not done that long in a chair, my jaws hate even one crown's worth of work, so chewing motion is rough for several days. And while I no longer have active mental anxiety over dentist visits, that kind of physical trauma is exhausting ( I still tense up despite actively trying to relax, reason why I get the bite bumper, it's unconscious) and I find crazy knots in my shoulders.

I hope you feel better soon.

I do have dental anxiety. Part of what keeps me from going regularly. They kept commenting on how calm I seemed. They didn't hear my constant mantra of "relax" and "zen" or see me after I left and turned into a mess.

Vicodin has kicked in. Not pain free but it isn't the only thought in my head.

Nora, I forgot to respond about the walk up waffle place also being the place you likely got cake but, yes, it would have to be! And, you really need to get back here so I can take you on a beer tour!

My dentists still treat me like my dental phobia is at 11, when really, it is pretty much a 2 now ( not funtimes, I will get stressed during, but it's not an obstacle) and book me regular stuff 2 visits out and emergent stuff within a week or so. I appreciate it.

...so I have been freaking out that an outlet was going bad after the Pumpkin got into the basement rafters near it and the fan plugged into it had been shutting off. So I plugged it elsewhere and planned to call the electrician. And then it shut off again.

... Apparently, it remembers if you've hit the time fan cycle even when turned off which I apparently did when I knocked it over cleaning this weekend.

Whew, no electrical issues.

My sister bought a car! I no longer have to have long pointless conversations with her about cars.

Also, Kaiser screwed up my labs again for my shot tomorrow. I'm so tired of this crap.

Bad news - 8 hours in the dentist chair.

That's fucking heroic. I don't even have dental anxiety and I would have quailed at that.

Also, Kaiser screwed up my labs again for my shot tomorrow. I'm so tired of this crap.

What the fuck??? Do they constantly have new, clueless people? Are they so overwhelmed that they can't keep stuff straight? Do they figure cancer patients are too desperate/tired/scared to fight back against incompetence? (I have residual issues about the state of care for cancer patients)

all of the above, probably.

Well, glad the car business is done, Ginger. That fucking sucks about the lab work.

Christ, Ginger. You deserve better.

I mean, we all deserve better health care, but you have been putting up with a shit-ton of bullshit.

You can't wipe out history, and if you start eliminating images of supporters of slavery, most of the founding fathers would disappear. I think we need to do a better job of coming to terms with the U.S.'s original sin.

Righto. I'd be fine with keeping statues of Davis and NBF if we put up statues of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and Ulysses S. Grant right next to them. Strangely, I doubt that southern governors are willing to do that.

I saw a killer quote today from a Georgetown law professor who was interviewed on Diane Reihm:

I have no respect for your ancestors. As far as your ancestors are concerned, I shouldn’t be a law professor at Georgetown. I should be a slave. That’s why they fought that war. I don’t understand what it means to be proud of a legacy of terrorism and violence. Last week at this time, I was in Israel. The idea that a German would say, you know, that thing we did called the Holocaust, that was wrong, but I respect the courage of my Nazi ancestors. That wouldn’t happen. The reason people can say what you said in the United States, is because, again, black life just doesn’t matter to a lot of people.

That's a mic-drop if I ever heard one.

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