You know ..... it's rather unfortunate. I used to love going to the dentist, but recently it's just been horrible. Last time I went was during winter break, and the woman would. not. leave. me. alone. She kept going on and on and on and ON about how much plaque I had built up, and I was like "I'm sorry. I don't drink pop EVER, I don't drink coffee, I only drink a little tea, I NEVER eat candy. I brush twice a day and floss every night. What more do you want?"

To which she could only respond, "Oh. Well I guess you're just prone to plaque then."

*FACEPALM*

SOooooo I went back in today (as a regularly-dentist-attending person does, every 6 months) and the hygienist scraped my teeth until I was literally afraid she was pulling my teeth out. And then said, "Well maybe if you would've come in here over Christmas, this wouldn't hurt so bad. When you come back for winter break this year, come see us this time."

To which I didn't even respond that I actually had gone in.

My teeth STILL hurt so much that I can't even chew, and that was 4 hours ago. Furthermore, I've had to switch over to sensitive teeth/gums toothpaste because my gums keep hurting me, and now she's like "well it might take a while for your gums to come back down after all this scraping." GREAT! So the dang woman causes my gums to recede from all of her unnecessary measures.

From now on, I will not visit the dentist unless absolutely necessary. I really do brush twice a day, and floss every day. And I never have cavities. Plus, I know someone who didn't go in 12 years, and he was just fine. Psh. Dentists. Boo.


In other news ... NASA is planning on blowing up a bit of the moon. Read my post about it here. I put links in the post to articles about the whole situation, and it's an opinion community so you can even read other people's thoughts on the matter or add your own. Personally, I'm not too impressed by the idea. Don't get me wrong .... astronauts are cool and all .... but exploding the moon is just stupid, regardless of your supposed "purposes."


In other OTHER news, my own copy of the (highly contested) HP Lexicon book came yesterday! :D :D Man I am such a nerd. But it makes me happy, so ... whatever! ;) And speaking of books. So far this summer, some of the books I've read include The Mists of Avalon (amazing), Bee Season (pretty good. I liked it, anyway), When The Emperor Was Divine (very good), Running With Scissors (really strange and I still don't know how to feel about it), and Peace Like A River (alright, but somewhat unsatisfactory). Just in case you wanted to know .... you know, if you were gonna read one of them and wanted to ask someone what they thought. Yea ...... anyway. I'm reading Great Expectations right now, and I suppose it's alright. Dickens is pretty sweet, but it takes a little bit to get used to his style. I suppose ... 1800's and all, it should take a bit, rightfully.

I'm also reading a few of Grimm's Fairy Tales every night, which are always entertaining. And interesting or not by themselves, it's even greater when you come across one of the tales that Disney has made a movie of, or that children's books have been written on, and then you get to compare them.

Any-hoozle. I need to read. Tata!

mood: annoyed tags: people:nasa, places:the dentist, things:books

Here's an art dump. Not that anyone looks at my art ever, but I don't want it on DA because its just junk. So here are some doodles that I have done in the past ... idk, 8 months or so. Enjoy (maybe)


Some eyeballs. They look pretty realistic irl, but you know ... my scanner isn't plugged in and photographs don't do them much justice. Oh well.

( A bunch more crapola )

So yea ..... there you have it. My junky sketches. Haha.

mood: bored tags: things:art

So. I have mixed feelings about people and the way that they treat blogs.

Once again, tonight at dinner someone brought up how "stupid" blogs are and how they "seem so pointless" and how "it's so dumb when they just talk about their life because I don't care!" ..... seemed kinda rude. I don't know why I always keep my mouth shut and never just speak up to say, "Actually, I have a blog....." I don't know ....

I would try to blog about more important things, but I never experience those amazing, transcendent things that they think "real" or "good" blogs should be made of. But then, if one can only have a good blog if they limit their discussions to worldly things, then wouldn't every "good" blog just be someone's personal take on the news? I don't know about you guys, but my blog is about my little corner of the world. That's the whole purpose. I don't care if you read it or not ..... it's for me, and it's my space where I can reflect on the crazy things that happen in my life so that I can come back later and see how I was acting/feeling/thinking/imagining life. It's not my fault if you stumble across my blog and think it's stupid, but don't call it pointless. :\

Tomorrow/today is The Day of Silence. I am very excited. I am wearing my green "Gay? Fine by me." t-shirt and black skinny jeans. Perhaps I'll upload a picture tomorrow. I'm going to be a "good" blogger and document my experience, or something along those lines. OMGZ. Haha.

Well ..... I've been unproductive today, honestly. I got a fat lot of NOTHING done, seriously. Guess I'm going to bed.

mood: annoyed tags: life:college, occasions:day of silence

So today at school, there is a group of people in some class who are raising awareness of the inaccessibility of our campus. One of the kids in my bio class showed up in a wheelchair, saying that for his project he has to use a wheelchair all day, and encourage other people not to use stairs. ...... once you do it for a couple hours, it gets really annoying and you can see how much harder it makes life. (I had to go in the front doors, to another floor, take the elevator, and come in the back way just to get down to my room. It probably took an additional 5 minutes to do something that would normally take 1.)

In other news, I'm participating in the "Day of Silence" on Friday. We are having it to protest bullying and harassment of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered people. Basically we're wearing shirts that say "Gay? Fine by me." on them (mine is green, but there are shirts of basically every color) and vowing not to talk to anyone, text, facebook, im, etc. for the whole day.

I actually got into a fight with my mom about it. It's so stupid and I'm so sick of her ignorance. I told her I couldn't talk to her on Friday and she asked why, so I said that I was doing the day of silence. She seriously said, "What!? Is there something you need to tell me?" So I got mad and said, "No, but other people have rights too and they deserve fair and equal treatment." She was silent for a while, then she said, "Well let's just see what the Bible has to say about gays."

First of all, my mom is not that religious at all. She doesn't even go to church! And it's definitely not like she reads the Bible. She acts like she knows all this stuff about religion but she doesn't. The only reason she says the Bible is against gays is because that is what people have told her. So I got pissed and told her that even if the Bible is against gays, God is the only one who has the right to pass judgment. I said that God did not give people the right to judge each other.... that's his job. God commands people to love and respect each human being. Jesus died for everyone's sins, so if being gay really is a sin, then it can be forgiven just like any other sin. Our duty is to treat everyone equally, and leave God as the judge of our sins. And I ended by saying that just because gay people are different than she is does not mean that they deserve any less rights than she does. Of course, she didn't say anything to all of that, and we haven't talked since. She's probably still mad, and I don't care because I am too. You can't get away with being racist and homophobic and close-minded and ignorant and not piss me off.

I'm just so SICK of ignorant people. It's going to be incredibly difficult for me to go from this campus, where everyone here is given countless opportunities to face diversity and learn about the problems with our society and how to fix them, to going back home where no one in my family is educated and they all have extremely conservative, it's-all-about-me views. I'm not going to be able to say or do anything controversial. It's really a shame because I know that I'm going to feel trapped all the time. *sigh*

So that's what I have to say for today. Now it's off to homework. Only 15 days left of the semester!! :)

PS - I applied for two summer jobs today! Wish me luck!

mood: annoyed tags: concepts:diversity, life:college, people:mom

ROFL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtX8nswnUKU

That is all

tags: youtube:kittens