UGH

Awful, awful TMJ days lately. Monday night was the worst (I lay in bed counting my pulse by the throbbing of the whole right side of my face), but it's not as much better since then as I'd like. Last night I observed a hole in the right side of my mouth guard. I have in fact chewed right through it.

Combine the splitting headache with the ( hormones )

- and I just want to go home, curl up under a blanket, have a good cry out, and then sleep for the rest of the day.

a small rant, put in terms the target would certainly not understand

/mocha/
     → [mocha]_+iced / iced _____
     → [mocha]_-iced elsewhere


This is pronounced something like "the theoretical mocha is realized as iced mocha if it occurs following 'iced', and as non-iced mocha elsewhere." Put another way, hot mocha is the unmarked condition. This is particularly true if the menu offers "mocha" and "iced mocha".

What that means is that if I ask for a medium mocha, and you don't inquire to clarify about the temperature, it will be a mistake (one might even say a violation of Grice's Maxim of Relevance, but that's probably a bit of a reach and in any case I don't want to mix subspecialties) to give me an iced drink of any sort.

They didn't argue with me, at least, when I handed it back to them. I did get a hot drink a couple of minutes later. But, feh.