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Welcome, gentle readers, to the conclusion of Morbid's Happy Fun Dental Adventures.

I have just returned from the dentist. Never before have I had so many tools inserted into my mouth at one time. My jaw is difficult to anaesthetise, requiring many injections before it finally took hold. I had enough anaesthetic injected into my jaw to numb and elephant - directly afterwards, I had no surface sensation on the left side of my face from my chin and lower lip all the way up to my ear. There were many strange circular clamping things, which I gather they use for work that's in difficult places close to the gum line. Things started at 1pm, and the dentist and his assistant listened to the New Zealand - Puerto Rico basketball quarter-final while they worked, which added somewhat to the surreality of the afternoon.

Now, at 3:45pm, the anaesthetic has worn off from my ear and halfway down my cheek, I have some surface sensation back in my cheek, and the back of my mandible is beginning to complain of a dull ache that should grow to a large ache and subside after a couple of days, if the last one was anything to go by. Whee. Still, my next scheduled appointment is for March 2003. I am very thankful for this fact.

I'm now getting occasional twitches and cold sensations from the numb area. Hopefully I shall be able to eat again, soon.

In other news, I comfort-shopped and bought the next trade paperback of Transmetropolitan, and read some while waiting for my bus. It is of no little concern that I find myself drawing parallels between Trasnmet and the current political situation in the United States. Watch for that D-notice, people.

Profile update

Because I hadn't updated it in such a long time (and because I'm not feeling up to going out on this fine night, unfortunately), I thought I ought to give my LiveJournal user profile a bit of an update. So, now you have a new bio, my MSN handle that I only ever use through Trillian (though if you've got MSN Messenger, you can add me on that too), and a bunch of extra interests that I felt like throwing in there. I see I have four that are unique. Muaha.

For the lazy of you reading through this on your friends pages, click on the little man icon here: morbid_curious

Speaking of which, there seems to be a fair number of people reading my journal who I don't believe I actually know (at least under your LiveJournal guises). Would any of you care to come forward and introduce yourselves..? I promise I won't bite, unless you ask particularly nicely.