the tooth rebellion, part deux

my teeth are rebelling. this is nothing new; the whole thing started in february with a funny spot on the back of my front tooth. i had a root canal, and all seemed to be fine. not so much.

my tooth has been aching intermittently for the last month or so. i have a pretty high tolerance for pain, so i didn't really notice it. around the first of the month, the pain became more increasing, and i noticed that my teeth weren't so straight anymore. the tooth that had had the root canal was dropping - it's slipping out of its socket. since last wednesday, i've been in pretty much constant pain, popping ibuprofen every 4 hours. last night and the night before, the pain has awoken me. it's bad news!

i'm going to see the endodontist around noon. he's going to look at the x-ray and tell me it's time for my tooth to come out. which means a flipper with a fake tooth at a minimum and another implant second. awesome.

what happens when we grow up

i just came back from spending the weekend in LA with 5 of my friends from college. overall, it was a fairly good weekend - but i noticed a lot of things that i hadn't noticed in the past. namely, people that i used to have a lot in common with, i no longer do. i know it comes from the fact that we all live hundreds of miles apart, and our lives have gone other directions, but it's sad when conversation basically just stops. maybe it's because we think we've got the info we need, or because we just don't care anymore.

of the five people (other than myself) that were there, i really only have the desire to see two of them again. these are the people that i regularly talk to, and who i would go visit outside of our yearly ritual. it's sad, but i suppose it's the way it goes when you grow up. you spend time with the people who reciprocate the relationship, and you find less and less in common with the people who don't.