It turns out the way to make having one's braces tightened feel less uncomfortable is to add Invisalign on the teeth that are not bound up with brackets and wires. I've got a few months' worth of work to be done on my top teeth, in order to get them out of the way of where the bottom teeth are moving to; and I'm vain enough that having heard Invisalign was an option for the top (which it wasn't for the bottom), I said yes, please, I'd rather have that than have brackets and wires on the top, thank you.
It hurts a lot. Of course, perspective-wise, I know it hurts about as much as the wires did when I first got them - only this doesn't have brackets scratching up the inside of my lip. So it will get better. It's just that right now, ow ow ow.
Went in to work today for half an hour for a mid-year performance evaluation-type meeting, where it was confirmed that I'm on precisely the right team for me, because apparently everyone I work for thinks I rock the proverbial casbah. So that's nice. (Some day when we have merit-based pay raises again, I should get a pleasant one. ... Some day.)
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