ouch!

a little bit ago i was in a meeting with two coworkers. one of them said something about 'two-thirty,' and as i pictured my hand coming up to my jaw and recited the joke in my head (i'm a little too new to be foisting jokes on people here ... yet) i realized my teeth really did hurt. i'd just gotten back from the dentist. the one time of the year that i can put sincere emotion and genuine inflection into the delivery of that joke, and it's wasted because the opportunity reveals itself in front of strangers. go figure.

however, i think i'm going to get braces again. so i'll soon have monthly opportunities to grab my jaw in genuine pain.