Not much happened today, although it is now officially one week since my surgery. I am healing pretty well, and my pain level has sufficiently decreased. I felt a little panicky about falling behind on my homework, and I spend most of the day working on that. I have managed to complete about three quarters of my homework by the end of the day. I am so proud of myself, that I treat myself to some t.v. A guilty pleasure of mine is "America's Next Top Model" and the new cycle has just begun. This season, there is a contestant names Isis, who is physically a man, and is in the process of becoming a woman. I applaud Isis for taking the risk and entering the contest. Isis is actually very pretty and a very good model.
I will now stop flaunting my liberalism, and move on to one of my new favorite shows "Flight of the Conchords." It is a show about two New Zealand musicians trying to survive in New York City. They are quite funny, and their music is hilariously fantastic. And I know their significant others will give me dirty looks for this, but Bret and Jermaine are very attractive, in a goofily sexy kind of way. They are a bit too old for me however.
I forgot to mention that I have been turning the expansion device that is bridged across my mouth and attached to my teeth. I have attached a picture of what it looks like, but it is not the exact one in my mouth. It has been difficult getting the turning device hooked on to the device, and we had to use a pin once, but it is painless. I have had two of these previously, and my parents would have to bribe me with pumpkin ice cream to get me to turn the device. I do not remember the process being quite so painless. I will turn the device for about two week, and the expander will be removed, and a less invasive device will be placed to hold the expansion while my palate re-fuses. Oh yeah, it will also give me a gap tooth, but my oral surgeon has assured me it will not be that big due to the expansion I have already had. By the way, I discovered that the name of the surgery I had is "SARPE" (Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion). SARPE...I love that!
2 comments:
First things first: I'm glad to hear that you are recovering well and I wish you the best.
Don't you think that it is sexist to expect Palin to be at home caring for her children? If a male candidate had a child with down syndrome I doubt that anyone would expect him to drop out of the race to stay at home.
Who knows how many daughters of political candidates have terminated their pregnancies? If Palin's daughter had gone this route the American public would likely never have heard about it. Saying that Palin should not run because of her children does not seem like a valid argument to me.
love,
Jonathan
p.s. I am looking forward to your next post.
Jonathan,
You are right. It is absolutely sexist to expect Sarah Palin to not run simply because she is a women. I realized after I reread that post I did really express myself very well. I did make it seem like I was targeting Palin because she is a woman. However, if Obama had a son with Down's syndrome and a 17 year old daughter, I would say the same thing. What I meant to say, is that if I were in Sarah Palin's position, I personally would have said that I was very honored to be chosen, but that I needed to focus on my family. That would just be my oersonal preference. I would find the task of juggling a campaign, and supporting my children daunting. I am impressed with Sarah Palin if she finds it easy. I certainly cannot imagine handling those tasks at the same time. What bothers me the most about Palin is her public speaking...I find a rather arrogant tone in her speeches and she lies. Oh well. I also just din't like her as a person. Nice to hear from you by the way!
Love,
Arielle
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