The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details- Page 165

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:12am

eeek, wisdom teeth.

That's good, though! You probably do know more of it than you think.

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:13am

I'm so scared. All I hear are these creepy anecdotes about how horrible dry socket is and such.

Have you had your wisdom teeth out, Em? How about anyone else here?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:16am

Not yet. Only one of mine has grown in, so far. I've had x-rays, and my destist says he doesn't really know *for sure* that they're going to cause a problem, but he thinks that two of them have a strong possibility of throwing off all of the orthodontic work I've had done. I don't *want* surgery, but I don't want to take that risk, either, after so many years of braces, but my parents don't believe in having operations unless it's life-or-death, so they don't want me to have them taken out.

[Chloe]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:17am

I've had three of them out. The first two were not bad at all, though I was so terrified the first time, I practically had to be dragged to the dentist's office. The third was a little more painful, but certainly not unbearable. We're letting the fourth one just sit peacefully under the gum, nestled up to my molar.

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:20am

I'm actually being put to sleep, so I'm not worried about the pain during the acutal operation at all. I'm just terrified of the IV needle and the post-operation pain.

I'm trying to get a screencap during Merano for my avatar (yes, I'm that bored), but Adam is blinking every time I press pause.

... That was pretty banal.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:21am

I almost said something that would get me into trouble, so I won't say it.

That's why I mooch and don't make my own screencaps. It's so hard to get it right.

[Bohemian1232]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:22am

I only have two wisdom teeth.

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:25am

I think that means you're genetically superior and should reproduce.

[Chloe]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:28am

Obviously

I was put out too, Lexi, so it was the post-surgical pain I was talking about. An IV is no big deal. It looks a lot worse than it feels.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:29am

Oh, God, I would never do it if I had to be awake for it.

[Bohemian1232]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:30am

My brother only has two as well. Everyone else in our family has four.

ETA: IVs really aren't so bad.

Updated On: 5/8/06 at 12:30 AM

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:31am

I was tempted to tell them to keep me awake because I'm terrified of needles going into my skin, but not my mouth. However, they're not really close to the surface, and I didn't want to be awake for them carving out my gum.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:34am

I had a horrible meltdown when I had to have my wisdom teeth removed; I called my mom sobbing in the parking lot. I'd never even had a cavity at that point, so I was completely terrified.

I had 4 impacted teeth removed. Honestly, I don't remember much about the pain, but Vicodin became my new best friend. I also went out of my way to obey the rules they set out regarding eating and stuff, and was really careful about letting them heal. I was just terrified I would screw something up and I've have to have more work done.

Oh, and just for the record, make sure you let them heal COMPLETELY before you consume any alcohol. It's a rather nasty shock.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:44am

The whole idea scares me.

On another note, emotions should not be visceral. It's unfair.

[Chloe]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:49am

Only positive emotions should be allowed to be visceral. All the others should only be skin deep.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:52am

This is going to sound stupid right off the bat because of where it's from, but on an episode of South Park I saw a few days ago, one of the kids was saying that he was okay with sometimes feeling heartbreak and sadness, because the fact that he *could* feel such extreme, sad pain meant that he had happy things by which to measure other events by. If you can feel so sad about something, it means that once, it was good enough for you to feel so sad about it going away. So, if you didn't feel sadness, then that would mean your life didn't have good in it, and nobody wants that. You have to know good to feel bad, he was saying.

I suppose that's a fair rationalization for sadness and why it's okay to feel, but it doesn't do much to make me wish I were immune to it, sometimes.

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[Chloe]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:56am

I hope you get a compensatory jolt of great happiness soon. I'm off to bed - sleep well, everyone.

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:58am

That theory of sorts has fascinated me ever since I read The Giver (I know, how sophomoric of me) in eighth grade. Of course, living your life in constant sadness is no way to live, but I do think that having moments of extreme sadness enables one to experience deep emotional joy as well. Without pain, you wouldn't know true pleasure.

ETA: 'Night, Chloe. Updated On: 5/8/06 at 12:58 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 12:59am

I did. I do. But there's this sad little rain cloud, connected to so many things in so many ways that's always in my mind. I wish it would stop being there. It doesn't do anybody a bit of good.

Goodnight, Chloe.

It's amazing what you learn on South Park. heh.

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[orangeskittles]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 1:08am

I hated The Giver just because of how it ended. It's the same issue I have with 1984- I like when there's a hint of hope for better things to come and in both situations, it was like, their deaths didn't accomplish anything. In fact, it did the opposite- it was like they were the one hope for society and any chance for change died with them.

And yes, technically he didn't die in The Giver, but it was kind of hinted at as being inevitable.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 1:12am

Well Winston and Julia didn't really die in 1984, they were just brainwashed and under complete control of "The Man". But I see what you mean about ending with pessimism in both of the books. (I didn't mind the bleakness of '1984' though - I thought the ending was effective because it scares the reader into seriously considering the implications of where our 'current' society is leading towards.)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 1:13am

Yeah, but that's the point. I love 1984. heh.

I'm a big believer in hope, or... some kind of optimism. It screws me over more often than it should because I'm often let down, but it keeps me going, that pile of maybes.

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Posted: 5/8/06 at 1:40am

I can't sleep.

Skittles, I think I mentioned this before, but my little eighth grader self wrote to the author asking about the ending, and she told me that she interprets it as Jonas surviving. I don't expect that to change your entire opinion of the book, but just FYI. :)

I agree that ending 1984 especially on a note of optimism would have destroyed the point of the book -- it's a dystopia.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 1:45am

I've got to read 1984 again. It's been so long that specifics are foggy, but I still know I love it. A lot.

I don't know if I want to sleep. I don't really know much, it seems!

Posted: 5/8/06 at 1:47am

It really is a great novel. Have you read Animal Farm as well?

Have you seen the 1984 movie? It's horrible. I actually sold it for more than I bought it for, though. It's apparently out of print and eBay buyers were interested. Heh.

I need to sleep. Running on less than five hours of sleep for an AP test isn't good.