Slow Engines of Destruction
Jan. 5th, 2011 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueOut of floss. Have meant for several days to order more floss, but haven't, and now I am out. Have ordered more floss.
It's a bad few days for my mouth all around, really. I have some kind of minor cold that's left the back of my throat scratcy, and I snagged my inner lip on one of my canines, so there's a sore there, and to let the sore heal I have to not wear my mouth guard at night, but with the cold I can't breathe right, so I'm grinding my teeth.
I don't know why, but when things are irritatingly wrong in this specific way, I always think this must have happened to Stalin. Probably I read too much Solzhenitzyn at an impressionable age (which I spelled right first try, hooray). And I imagine being Stalin sitting in my office with mouth problems. I don't know whether Stalin had mouth problems; it's just a sense of being in control of the world but totally impotent against one's own, for instance, bitten tongue.
It's a bad few days for my mouth all around, really. I have some kind of minor cold that's left the back of my throat scratcy, and I snagged my inner lip on one of my canines, so there's a sore there, and to let the sore heal I have to not wear my mouth guard at night, but with the cold I can't breathe right, so I'm grinding my teeth.
I don't know why, but when things are irritatingly wrong in this specific way, I always think this must have happened to Stalin. Probably I read too much Solzhenitzyn at an impressionable age (which I spelled right first try, hooray). And I imagine being Stalin sitting in my office with mouth problems. I don't know whether Stalin had mouth problems; it's just a sense of being in control of the world but totally impotent against one's own, for instance, bitten tongue.
