bits and pieces

1. Today I have a bit of a headache and am kind of wickedly vertiginous and I cannot tell you how glad I am for both of these. Not, for a change, because it confirms that this whole thing is not just in my head; instead, because for the first time in days all other kinds of pain and discomfort are not utterly overshone by the indiscriminate firing of my inferior alveolar nerve (right side), which has been making me variously unhappy and then utterly miserable since last week but especially the night before last and a lot of yesterday.
   
   ( Holy shit, does that hurt. (cut for length and for those who may be upset by vivid descriptions of pain and reactions to pain, though there isn't really any TMI; or by quotes from Wodehouse.) )
   
   
   
2. A moment of utter femme, such as I am probably the only one to be surprised at coming from myself: girls, listen, I have finally found the lipstick shade I've been after for yonks. I have a lot of lovely lip colors, but what I really wanted for everyday purposes was something that would just sort of punch up my regular skin tone. I do like a dramatic lip, but I've never felt I could carry it off under normal circumstances (which is another way, I suppose, of saying I've never got used to it), but most of the nude or mild lip colors I was finding were too nude, like, I really can't do that thing where the lipstick tries to make your lips match your face, or I'll totally vanish (seems this may be a function of having very pale skin and dark hair; I think that really-nude-lip look works better on women whose skin and hair are closer together on the spectrum, right, which among white women basically means your sort of golden blondes) - or else they looked right in the tube and even on the back of my hand but were much too pink on my lips. But I fell for a TV commercial where the folks at Maybelline had a whole new line of nude lipsticks, and I checked them out in the Target one day last week, and wouldn't you know, I think their "warm me up" shade suits me perfectly. So let's hear it (also) for advertising! \o/
   
   
3. I really feel like there was a third thing, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. Maybe it had something to do with Ginger Tenor? Anh. If I remember I'll post again.

a curling team has four members.

I am in Ft Wayne, IN for a summer bonspiel.

At the moment I am the only one of my teammates of whom this is true.

Hmm.