Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Excruciating nostalgia.

This morning before work I decided to sort out a dentist appointment. This triggered a whole shitstorm of confusion. Firstly I phoned my old dentist who informed me I have been removed from their list by the NHS, but the NHS haven't registered me with another one. So I had to try and get an emergency appointment which eventually was sorted out after the usual madness on the phone with NHS 24; "Are you conscious and breathing, sir?"... "Yes." etc. So I informed work I would be late and headed off to raigmore where I was given vague instructions on where the dentist is. These directions turned out to be completely useless and I spent nearly three quarters of an hour walking around the outside of the hospital in the pouring rain. Eventually I got there and was recommended I have my wisdom tooth removed because it was too far back. I never expected a tooth extraction to be so rudimentary; after the anaesthetic numbed my mouth she got to work with various types of pliers literally yanking away at the rogue chomper. It worked though and it was taken out to reveal the roots to be at ridiculous angles rather than the uniform shape they are supposed to be. I headed to work after this was done with the anaesthetic still making half of my mouth completely numb making talking a difficult task. Once there I discovered it was horrendously quiet with hardly any customers at any given time. As the day went on the anaesthetic started to wear off leaving me with an agonizing pain across the whole right side of my head. As I was surplus to requirements and was in a lot of pain making me terribly moody I went home early. After going to my grandparents for a brief while I went home where I spent the evening on my computer with my brother looking through all old photos and videos in the lack of internet. He was amazed to see pictures of himself from five years ago, aged 2. And it is really strange to look at them, remember clearly the scenario in which it taken before looking at him, realising how much older he is now. The few that I cropped up in were equally as terrifying, seeing how different I look too. Another cool thing I found was todays song of the day. It's fool for love by Das Pop. I remember seeing them at rockness in 2008 where I had never heard of them but ended up being my favourite act of the day. They're pretty straight forward pop rock really but nonetheless I think they're really good and this is the only song I have of theirs just now; its a good'un though.

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