OH what a day!

I got a call this morning when I was eating breakfast from central ohio endodontics asking if I could come in at 11:15 instead of my 3:45 appointment. I said okay and got ready quick to make it over in time. After the work that they did on friday, I was feeling much better. I wasn't even taking much pain killer but I was afraid that they were going to have to numb me up again. That was the worst part last time but that was probably because there was already too much pressure in the area. This time I only had one shot and it hurt pretty bad ... but not as bad as before! It hurt when they were working deep in my tooth but that didn't last too long. Now I just have to go back to my regular dentist to have my crown fixed.

Right as I was finishing up at the dentists I got a call from the people with that job out in California. He was calling to set a date for the interview. I told him I would call back. I talked to the dentist some more and filled out a follow up post card then left for home. I stopped to get gas and locked the keys in the car. I had too much going through my head I guess. It was at the united dairy farmers on the corner of hard and smokey so I walked home, got the keys and walked back. When I was settled in and home I called the guy back to set a date and discuss travel details. I'll be flying out sat. nov. 5 and interviewing mon. then flying home tues. They have me coming out a little early so that I can see the area and they are arranging for me to have a rental car to get around. I have to prepare a thirty minute presentation on something as part of the interview ... if you have ideas for topics leave me a comment! I told him that I would get back with him tomorrow. If I gave a presentation on my senior project I could definitely fill up the time but it was a group project and I can't answer questions on the parts that I didn't actually work on so I am not very comfortable with that idea.

Even with everything I have done today, including several phone calls not listed above and a trip to joann's to work on my schedule, I still have a lot to do today. I have to clean my room, do laundry and think about this presentation. But tonight I get to have fun with Justin!

later noobs

Infected!

OH my recent dental drama! Remember a while ago when I was complaining about my face hurting? Well that went away and from what I gather it was a bacterial infection... cause it happened again. About two days ago it started hurting the same way only worse. Yesterday at work it was so painful that I couldn't concentrate and I went home. I called the dentist and I think they stayed late just to see me. My mom drove me over there because she wanted to help and she knew where their new offices are. I had slight swelling in my upper lip and my gums and teeth were hurting like hell. They took a couple of x-rays and poked around. The dentist perscribed some antibiotic and a pain killer and gave me refferals to some Endodontics because he believed my root canal (in tooth 8) had failed, allowing bacteria to fester. It wasn't my fault or anybody else's but I feel dirty being all full of bacteria.

Well last night my upper lip swelled up more than I thought a lip could swell and mom bought soft foods and made me jello. Later, I called the dentist to ask what I should do about it and they said that they meant for me to try to get into the endodontist (if that's the right term) today. I didn't understand that. I thought I was supposed to try to get rid of the infection first and that fixing the tooth could come later. well no. Justin drove me to the endodontist who was able to fit me in. Justin was really patient and learned about day-time tv ... guiding light. I get really nervous and scared when my teeth are worked on and I really freaked out today. The shots were the worst part but they numbed me so much that I really didn't feel much when they were working on my tooth. I was really shakey and nervous after the shots and he explained to me that one of the anesthetic shots he gave me got partially into my body's blood stream and the shot right after that closed up my blood vessels so not much more of the first shot got into the rest of my body. The shakeyness and my heart flutters were a result of the anesthetics. But it felt like it could have just as easily been my own reaction because I was pretty scared. While I was numbing up Justin came back and kept me company. To keep a long gross story short they drilled out my old filler for the root canal and left it open to drain and they cut my gums up by my lip to let that drain too. They gave me some ibuprophen to take with the hydrocodon and I am staying on the antibiotic until it's gone. I am supposed to be icing it and pushing as much of the fluid out through the cut as I can without hurting myself. On Tuesday I go back to fill up the hole.

I am still very swollen but am feeling much better. Relieving the pressure did a lot for the pain. The vicodin and ibuprophen are also certainly helping. Here's a couple of pictures of me when I woke up today:



and here are some pictures of me, more swollen, after the procedure today:

looking forward to halloween!

At Joann's last weekend I had two new costumes. On Saturday I wore the t-shirt my sister got me at her work ... it says Michigan State Police, aviator sunglasses, handcuffs looped to my jeans, and I carried a night stick. It was pretty fun. Then on Sunday I wore black pants, a red sweater with a red lacey camisole under, red lipstick and red eye-shadow, a felt tail and I spiked my hair up to make two horns. It was pretty cute. So far I haven't been putting much money into my costumes. The sunglasses were the most at $13.58 and I bought the felt to make the tail and that was $0.06. I am going shopping with someone from work today and we'll see what we come up with for next weekend.

I have an interview scheduled on campus for November 9. It's with orbital technologies corp. doing mechanical engineering ... design and analysis. I don't think I have what they are looking for but we'll see.

The house keeps creaking the way it does when people are walking around inside the house but I am home alone and it's creeping me out. It would be cool to be a vampire because then I wouldn't have to be afraid of people getting into the house because I could defend myself. Justin told me that if he is ever turned into a vampire he would turn me too so I guess I have twice the chance to be turned. Or maybe it's four times as much because I think Justin's friend Sarver have the same deal going and Sarver has the same deal with his girlfriend. So if any one of us is turned all four of us will be. Then we can double date as vampires.

The job search is going alright I guess. It's hard to talk about because there are never any developments worth talking about and it makes me feel like a loser. This week I applied to a bunch more places and got a hit back on an application ... they asked me to fill out a longer application because I guess I made it through the first screening. I don't want to get my hopes up but it would be in aerodynamics. I think given a chance I might be really good at that. I took computational fluid dynamics as a senior elective and junior year in aerodynamics I got an A- and most people really struggled with that class. I remember on one test the average was around 45 and I got 80. I talk too much about that ... I'm sure everyone has heard that story but I can't really describe how that made me feel. My heart started beating faster and it felt like it was in my throat. I wanted to run and jump and cry. Anyway I'm off topic, but there's nothing more I can think to say.

Back by Popular Demand

We are allowed to wear costumes every weekend of October at work. On Saturday I was a big nerd. I had a pocket protecter, short black pants up to my chest with a brown belt that dangled funny, I buttoned the shirt all the way up, I taped a dryer sheet to my pants, I wore my dad's old huge glasses frames, had a laminated card hanging from my pocket that I kept calling my conversion chart and my manager Dora taped a sign on my back that said nerd. Well even with all that, customers didn't know I was in costume and kept telling me that I had a sign on my back and kept ripping off the dryer sheet. I mean come on! Everyone thought I was a real nerd. It kinda hurt my feelings.

Sunday I went in as a hula girl ... nobody thought that I was in my normal clothes. I wore a coconut bra with a t-shirt on under-neath and a couple yards of hawiian print fabric tied on as a sarong. I got a lot of laughs so that was good.

alright that's it for now i am tired