It’s junior year, last week of school before summer break. I’m happy, I’m not sure why, just in a really good mood. I think my grades were good, I didn’t have a boyfriend at the time but I had many friends and I was having a lot of fun. I actually enjoyed my classes that year, especially Honors AmTrad – a hybrid that satisfied both our American History and American Literature requirements. Every day there was a lecture in the main auditorium in the morning, then smaller group sessions in the afternoon. It’s no wonder this is one of my biggest memories of junior year – it took up so much of each day! I did like it though, even though we had to read some real snoozefests like Thoreau’s Walden. (To be honest, I think I only read the Cliff’s Notes for that one.) We had to do an independent study project on a prominent American and give a big presentation at the end of the semester. I did mine on Stanley Kubrick.
Best. Class. Ever.
Anyway, back to that last week of school. A friend named Mark carried me piggyback down the hallway in a race with another friend, also carrying a girl on his back. Mark had a pencil in his back pocket. When I slid down off his back to get back on my feet, the pencil stabbed me on the inner left thigh, right through my pants. Hurt like a sonofabitch.
And now, over 20 years later, I still have a little gray mark on my leg from the graphite where it got under my skin. It’s a tattoo – in pencil!
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A while back I posted that I really like this toothpaste, Crest Pro-Health. And I did, I used two whole tubes of it. Then I read some stuff late last week about how the Pro-Health rinse turns people’s teeth brown. Ew! Fortunately I don’t use the rinse. Unfortunately I started reading a bunch of nasty stuff about the toothpaste too, like these reviews on Amazon.
I was a bit grossed out, to say the least. I also realized that I’ve been noticing some of these strange symptoms (the slimey feeling, numbness, etc.) but hadn’t really connected it to the toothpaste. In a syllable: ugh.
So to make a long, boring, dental story short – I’ve stopped using the Pro-Health. I threw away what was left of my last tube and started some Sensodyne ProNamel. So far it’s OK – I like that it’s for sensitive teeth (mine always have been). I don’t like the mint flavor, but not many toothpastes seem to come in cinnamon anymore. Also it seems very runny, but I think that’s just because I was used to the thick, gritty consistency of the Pro-Health.
I am due to go back to the dentist in April; we’ll see what she says (she originally recommended the Pro-Health to me). Overall my teeth are doing so much better since all the major restorative work that I had in 2006-2007; which toothpaste I use probably doesn’t have all that much effect, but who knows?
Also, this is hilarious to me:
Apparently Amazon assumes if you need toothpaste, you also need a new phone. I have no idea how these items tie together, other than both are somewhat related to your mouth.
