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Thursday, February 04, 2010Wisdom Teeth - Revisited...
No, I'm not gonna cry on your shoulders any more about the pain of having 5 wisdom teeth removed at the same time (who knew you could even get 5 wisdom teeth?!?). I'm all better. Seriously, no pain and everything is healing nicely. It's weird, though, because my tongue keeps seeking out the places where the teeth used to be. I know, a little toooo much inflomation. I'll shut up.
In the midst of the wisdom-tooth debacle I had a little bit of inspiration on the meet-cute for Santos & Esme's story...based on how I reacted (wrongly) to the pain meds. The dentist prescribed Vicoden, which is basically supposed to kill the pain and knock you out, right? Well, it killed the pain but it didn't knock me out. I was giggly and silly...and foggy. Everything that was funny was funny 10 minutes later. We were watching as re-run of The Office (the one where Jim makes a wrapping paper desk for Dwight, who tries to sit on it)..the credits rolled, a commercial started...and then I got the joke and started laughing hysterically.
So I started thinking, what if something similar was going on with Esme? And in a very serious situation she just couldn't stop laughing at the hero...and then another possibility...and the brain was off and running. Need to run the new beginning past the CP's but I think I may be on to something.
Do you ever find inspiration in the silliness of real life?
