In all honesty I have been a little busy, since the Race for the Cure and female athlete celebration and Kony 2012 and the semester end are all coming up in the near future and I've been trying to divide my attention between those four things and The Helsinki Accords since it's hit me in the face again because of English fucking Russia. That and drawing my 9th anniversary Circus shit. So yeah, I have been a bit busy.
I'm trying to give up soda just because it's horribly unhealthy for your weight. I don't drink that much of it, really, but I'm shooting for my 88 again and I can't really afford to take in that extra sugar if I'm going to lose almost 10 pounds. My diet pretty much consists of rice, baby food, and popsickles now, put with what I eat at work and at school for lunch. I don't think I'm going to lose weight very fast, but I really don't want to be the fatty at the pool or have rolls bulging over my OTKs when it's lolita weather in the spring. :I
And yeeeah... Still no sign of our Nikon D4 showing up at work, but we're hoping we get it in time for the Race for the Cure. Then, maybe I can have the old camera, the other nikon, and my canon, and I will be the triple pimp. Every year I walk around with two or three cameras but I think it would be cool as shit if I got to shoot video this year, even though the still come out cool!
Ah what else has happened? Yesterday I got really bored while playing fallout because I was doing that thing with the fucking Helios One plant with the solar power and all that shit, so I decided to become big and little Yulia.
First of all, I could have cheated my way into hooker outfits, but I didn't. I worked hard for my slut clothes and now I look cool as fuck parading around the wasteland like a giant whore with a party hat.
I was very tiny. I didn't get far running around like that.
Then I was really huge. But I kept falling and dying. So I just made myself the same size as the securitrons and ran around as a goliath woman executing NCR soldiers until my game crashed. Good times.We did absolutely nothing on Easter Sunday. No, actually? We watched a dog show. On LVTV. The bloodhound won. And that was Easter for me. Apparently my father spent the night saving my stepmom from being in the path of a burglar who was breaking into their neighbor's house while on some kind of drugs and was mistaken by police as the burglar (because he was pulling Laurie away from the scene) which I think is both hilarious and scary.
And I'm really trying to nail down what I'm writing for Camp Nanowrimo. It's going to sneak up on me and I know that I'll be like "oh hay i spent the last three months developing plot points and now i don't feel like working on dis storee huuurrrr" and I'll get let 5,000 words in and quit. I really don't want last November to happen again where I drop out halfway through. I want to really use it to develop and finish a fic. Even if I finish it without hitting the word count, I'll feel like it'll be worth it if I can just finish something.
I keep swinging back and forth between what I want to write for camp because every week I look at something new and start getting that OOH I WANNA WORK ON THAT FIC feeling. For the past few days it's been the black hole that is English Russia making me work on Russia's disco house shit thingy, before that it was Angela's Ashes making me work on other shit, before that it was Vancouver, and you can see how these things just lead away from the inspiration for one fic and into the other. I really don't have any idea what I'm doing but I have to get it together soon.
I'm treating Alfred for swim bladder. A few weeks ago I looked at him and thought to myself that he was looking a little bloaty, and I guess I know why now. I'm switching foods for him entirely now, the worms I was feeding him just clouded the water in the tank and I don't think he like them very much. I also gave my hypothetical planet speech and totally fucked up on the entire thing. I literally had too much information, and trying to squeeze like a 45 minute lecture about space into 10 minutes ended up being a complete failure. I also saw Indra for the first time since I was like 12! She works in a cafe not too far from my house, and she's dating a guy who used to go to EKA (who had a baby at 18 and was actually married to his girlfriend that year!) and she was still in contact with people from like first year. I can't believe that. It's such a small world that we all stay connected long after the school has changed and we've all graduated.
Mari and Hunter and Xoli came over a while ago and Mari made a horse stack out of Bri's model horses. It was glorious. They're going to teach me how to play League of Legends sometime, because it seems like one of those games that is super hilarious to play around your friends. That, and it pisses Brina off to no end. I have pictures from that night but I'm typing this from school and I don't have them with me. :c
Tomorrow I'll do a quiz. Today I'll rant about drugs and tooth decay! What a fun topic. If you know me you know that I hate all kinds of drugs and that people always roll their eyes at me for it, but I've seen way too many bad stories and heard way too many awful things to support things like legalizing marijuana. It's one of the few things that James and I disagree on, and like, even though he has presented facts that have shown me that it isn't enormously dangerous, it just makes it the least bad thing out of a lot of bad things. It's still bad for you, really, but I have an emotional conviction (is that the right word?) with it while he's very factual about it.
I know nobody really advocates hard drugs like meth, heroin, and crack, but like... it's the party drugs and "casual" stuff that bothers me. No, you likely won't end up with something as serious as meth mouth if all you do is smoke a joint at your friend's party (though... why any would want to do that is beyond me) but you can still end up with a very unhealthy set of teeth and gums from recreational drug use.
It's not that weed, certain pills, ecstasy, and other "lesser" drugs contribute directly to the decay of the teeth and gums, but it's the habits attributed to them that generally fuck your mouth over. The constant craving for soda and sweet candy generally not thinking of things like brushing your teeth when you're high is what really gets your teeth to rot. Back before sugar was an everyday part of our diet, there were literally like, no cavities. Awful gums were still around, but that was because this was a time was a really long while ago before we really started to care about oral health. But it's the sugar, the candy, the soda, that's what will do you in.
That, and metabolic stimulants cause bruxing. That thing that rats and rabbits do all the time to keep their teeth filed down because they don't stop growing? People teeth do stop growing. And grinding them can really, seriously fuck you up. This paired with the fact that these kinds of drugs usually cause really bad dry mouth as a result of high body temperature, which causes an upset in the balance of bacteria in your saliva and your mouth, which causes sugars to wear down on your teeth even harder.
Not to mention that any kind of tobacco smoking, which includes cigarettes and hookah (don't try to argue that it isn't dangerous because it does contain carcinogens and carbon monoxide even though the water dilutes it a bit, and smoking it will still increase your chances of tobacco-related health complications five-fold, as opposed to just not fucking doing it) puts you at risk for plaque buildup and possible staining. Though cigarettes are much much much worse for your teeth and are more often lead to worse things than just your teeth getting stained (hi my name is cancer how are you today) and hookah and smokeless tobacco are generally less harmful, it doesn't change the fact that it causes plaque buildup and increases the risk of gum disease. This and the fact that hookah hose-inhaler things are usually passed around between several people and cigarettes are sometimes shared between friends, hello oral bacteria being spread around.
Yeah okay, I think I've made my point. I don't think I even need to talk about meth mouth. This has been your weekly report about nasty shit that happens in your mouth from your semi-friendly dental student. :T
Oh yeah, Zack, if you're reading this post (lord help anyone who is reading this shit because it's long as balls and probably really boring,) you have to see this video. It reminds me of the weird stuff we used to send eachother a while ago. But it's like... fucking horrifying.
It's the eyes. Nobody who visits my blog will want a banana after this. :3
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