Daily Update

Right after work last night, I wandered over to the ucla Dental Clinic. Dr. Plewe needed victims for his dental Exam's. As far as I knew it, he just had to so many hours of weird things. But it turned out that he was looking specifically for cavities to fill, so he x-rayed my Pearly Whites and searched, and searched, and searched, but no such luck by the Ry-guy. I was to diligent in my dental hygiene. I was quick to point out that I was probably the only person in there to have accomplished something in the field of Dentistry, namely I have earned my Dentistry Merit Badge in Boy Scouts! Yes, thats right. So I liberally told him to look at all the 'technical terms that I knew'. I got a couple of laughs and a couple of stares from the dozens of other students and patients in there. In the dental school its a wide open space, like an office full of cubicals, so maybe 10 cubicals per aisle, and 5-6 aisles per room, with a bunch of rooms per floor, and many floors per building. I kind of surprised Ryan when I loudly announced, that "I didn't want to take my pants off again , cause it made me 'uncomfortable'." He laughed, as I felt many eyes look at my back from the rest of the room. When he was trying to X-ray my mouth I was always curious as to what would happen if I resisted his efforts. Yes, a dentists nightmare. I then informed him I would only go through with it if he first X-rayed my hand flipping 'the bird'. But he didn't go along with it. So I then started using the x-ray machine as a lazer pistol, and I would shoot the space aliens that were just outside the window. I also asked him not to "x-ray my genitalia any more" (I did this very loudly cause we were in a side room.) Then I sat still for 5 minutes. Then I tried to convince him that it was better to x-ray someone if they were upside down, then tried to show him the best method for doing that as I attempted a handstand in the chair. With a little more shinaigins we finally finished and went upstairs to develop the x-rays. On the trek up stairs I made sure to announce to everyone that we had important documents and asked everyone to step aside. I had latex gloves on so I looked official.

While the film was developing I tried to get one of the other students to marry him while she was walking by, but luckily for Ryan, I don't think she spoke English very well. After it had developed it took him 20 minutes to clean something up before we left. I don't know why I waited. The area where we were was pretty messy and un-clean. If that was an actual dentists office I would have complained about the dirtiness. I'm sure USC isn't as messy as ucla. OH, and after the x-rays Ryan decided he needed to prod around my mouth with a mirror and Scalers. For a dentist he was much to gentle. I'm much more vigorous on myself, and I'm a wuss when it comes to that. It was like he was brushing by my incisors with a feather. My old dentist would have one or two of the hygienists come in and hold me down so he could get a running start for crying out loud. He was a guy who would use his whole body weight to prod around my mouth. My how times have changed I guess. But I was much obliged to help Ryan out with some encouraging screams, so in between poking me, I would blurt out "OUCH" or "oHH that HURTS". I think when he laughed, they were laughs that were hoping the instructors didn't come over to investigate.

After that I went home and ate Capt'n Crunch for dinner and watched TV.

Lunch was sponsored by Socko's.

I'm listening to KC & The Sunshine Band.