Pain pain pain, my God, the pain.

Last night I worked the box office for the French, which was uneventful, except for that one asshole playwright, then I got home and suddenly, the left side of my mouth sort of started to feel funny. I decided to brush my teeth, somehow thinking that everything would be fine, but it just started getting worse and worse until I realized what I had happening to me, what I had going on right that very little minute, was a toothache.

And it just got worse and worse. It occurred to me that the last time I felt like this, I needed a root canal. I took two Aleve, my magical pain pills, but nothing happened, pain-lessening-wise. I decided to go to bed, thinking that I'd go to sleep and would feel better in the morning, which is what usually happens to me when I have cramps.

I lay down at 12.30a, and went to sleep, then woke up in the most agonizing pain that I have ever felt. It was this throbbing, there was nothing else in the world except for:

Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Teeth. Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Teeth. Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Teeth. Tooth. Tooth. Tooth. Teeth.

TEEEEEEEETH.

And I finally thought, okay, I cannot do this, it can't be that long before I have to get up, so I sat up and looked at the clock. It was 2.30a. I had slept for about an hour. And all I could think was, I can't lie here for another six hours before I can get up and call the dentist, I'll die, I cannot spend that much more time in this much pain.

So I got up, and even though I had taken two Aleve a couple of hours before, I took two aspirin, hoping that something in these two pain relievers might actually relieve some pain. Nope, not a sausage. But getting up and walking around made it better, so I tried to see if I could sleep sitting up, like the Elephant Man. I don't think the Elephant Man had a stucco wall poking into the back of his head. I realize that he had other problems, however.

So I just decided to be up rather than even pretend that I was trying to sleep, and I turned on the TV and watched the Conan rerun with Christopher Walker, which was really great, and read my People magazine and ate crackers and cheese, once I realized that eating actually took the pain away. You know, as long as I chewed on the other side of my mouth.

When Conan was over, I flipped around the dial, realizing that one thing TiVo has taken away from me is the joy of watching TV rather than watching specific shows. The Elephant Man was playing on Bravo, which I thought was a funny co-incidence, so I watched it. I had forgotten what a magnificent movie it was.

By the time it ended, it was 5.30a and I felt that perhaps I could lie down without pain, and I was, in fact, correct, so I went to sleep for a few hours, before getting up and calling my dentist and begging him to fit me in today, which he did, thank Christ, because I don't think that I could do another night like this very easily.

Horoscope d'aujourd'hui:
Creativity and originality are highlighted. You can find new solutions and arrive at answers others could not see.

il y a un an aujourd'hui:
And on that note, that very very pathetic note, as pathetic as it can be, I must drag my friendless ass to work.

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