Sooo, what have I done recently?
Well, perhaps the most genuinely exciting was going for training for my ski job. The training itself was, of course, not the most thrilling afternoon ever known, though there were some VERY nice cookies - perfectly crisp on the outside and squidgy on the inside :D Mmm. The reason it was so good was that there's now lots of snow up there! Not enough, mind, but very much going in the right direction! It actually looked like a ski resort, which is good to know! It was also nice to meet the people I'll be working with, who all seem to be really lovely - looking forwards to starting soon!
Much of other random bits of this week were taken up with jumping through all the requisite hoops to join a couple of agencies - see if i can get a bit of work before/on the side of my other job. One of them at least seem rather hopeful, but since i didn't complete my training with them until friday, I probably won't hear anything until at least monday. Hopefully that'll give me something to do as well as some money. I feel I have rather too much time on my hands at the moment... And at least for the last week I haven't been out adventuring much either - don't really want to spend too much until my job actually starts! Still, it did mean I found the time to watch the whole of seasons 3 and 4 of Due South. Awesome.
In an altogether different definition of 'exciting' I also had a wisdom tooth out yesterday, which was certainly one way of using an afternoon! I think I did something to it to aggrevate it the morning I flew out - grinding my teeth or something - and it's been bothering me on and off ever since. When it got painful to eat I decided I ought to do something about it... It was one that had grown out into my cheek and was therefore more or less impossible to clean properly, so this was really pretty inevitable. The xray showed that from the back corner a big cavity had worked its way in. Given that, and that it was useless as a tooth, there was no point in doing anything except taking it out. The dentist was very nice though and put lots and lots of numbing stuff in my mouth and pulled it out so painlessly I didn't even know he'd done it. It was pretty gruesome to look at, so i decided against keeping it for prosperity...
Anyways, having your tooth out seems to be considerbly less painful that i had imagined - certainly it's a lot less painful out than it was in! But alas, it also means that i have to eat squishy, non-bitty foods for a week while it heals, to make sure nothing gets stuck in the hole *shudder*...
And I know there are some 'sensible' people out there who will think i should have got this sorted before i went (it wasn't hurting then!), but given that i don't currently have an NHS dentist at home, I've discovered that doing it here was quite possibly cheaper... (although, it baffles me that as it breaks down the examination and xrays accounted for less than a third of the price, while the sheer brute force of actually pulling it out accounts for the other 2/3rds... strange world...
So there you go, varying kinds of excitement to be getting on with.
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