I have scheduled for tomorrow my first consultation with an oral surgeon regarding my bastard wisdom teeth. I got nervous just making the phone call earlier this week, so that was fun. also, they've already informed me that my first expense will be $90 for any panoramic x-rays they have to take since my dentist took his own set of those once this year (my insurance only covers the first set). awesome.

work today involved me, sitting at my desk, alternately staring at my screen trying to decide what to do next and writing emails to friends. also at work today I somehow scraped a small portion of skin off the back of my right hand and ended up bleeding. I don't know when or where it happened, but I looked down at my hand after taking something to our shipping department and there was a blob of blood. strange how I could be bleeding and, assumedly, in pain, yet not even know it. is that cause for alarm? or am I just the toughest person ever to live? hard to say.

tonight the roommate freaked me out once again with one of her psychoses (she calls them "quirks"). among the ones to which I am now accustomed are her need to salt her food before she peppers it (any accidental reversal of this order results in her screaming "shit!" or some other terror-filled expletive), her absolute avoidance of walking over any and all grates in the sidewalk, and her now-bearable dislike of escalators (she used to never take them at all, anytime). tonight we were sitting on the couch when she went to pull some of the blanket I was using over her own legs. she announced that I had the blanket all twisted and upside down, so I straightened it out. then she looked at me and said, "no, it's still upside down." I looked at the blanket, which is one of those knit sweater-style blankets, and which to me has no right side or wrong side up, and said, "what are you talking about?" she said, "the wrong side is up. can you just flip it over?" so I did, and then I sat on the couch thinking about how weird it was that she can't stand to have a blanket over her without the "right" side up. just. weird. to me.

switching topics, I'm watching the Bachelorette on TV right now. when all those guys and that one girl are in that room, I think it just looks like a set-up for some gang-bang porno. also, I can't get over the fact that these people are consciously saying that they know they can find true love through a network television executive's choices. people are strange. also, one of the bachelors who wasn't chosen just referred to not bringing his "A game." that's all I wanted to say about that.