Winter – well, that was exciting! Oh, my, yes New tooth
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Everyone here is clustered by the window enjoying an extremely brief and utterly rare Canberra snow shower. It took all of two minutes to come and go, and there’s no real evidence of it now, of course (ground’s too warm, not that you’d know it if it came in contact with your skin…). It’s kind of reassuring to be able to point at something tangible that says “You know, the winter’s here really are pretty bitter”. And hopefully it bodes well for the New Zealand ski trip that’s about three weeks away.
Update – ooh, ooh! It’s back! More updates to follow!
In the weird and murky world of fan fiction, there is a particular phenomenon known as the “Mary Sue”. This is where the author inserts a new character - essentially themselves with various wish-fulfilment trappings (ranging from the innocuous, such as mysterious and alluring physical features, to the ridiculous, like magical powers) – who saves, helps, is rescued by or is otherwise the best new friend of the regular characters, not to mention everyone else they meet. Harry Potter fanfic, for example, is rife with Mary Sue-esque new students at Hogwarts who are braver than Harry, smarter than Hermione and…um, taller than Ron (and let's face it, Harry Potter skirts dangerously close to Mary Sue-ism in the original text...)
This Lord of the Rings effort is a Mary-Sue parody, and a sublime one at that.
My newly-reconstructed back tooth disintegrated again on Monday, resulting in yet another morning of reconstructive dental hilarity. At first I assumed that the filling I got a couple of months ago had just broken down, but in fact it was another quarter of the same tooth that has shaved off like a bit of errant iceberg. Turns out that the real problem was with the tooth in the opposite jaw putting too much pressure on it when I grind my teeth (which I do unconsciously all the time, and pretty much always have). I have now had the offending protrusion flattened out a bit. If that doesn’t work, the next step is a rather expensive crown, so I rather hope that it does work…
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