Oh, I was able to fix the ' key after all. Go, me.
Ever since I went to the Dental Cleaning From Hell, my mouth has been tender. No shoe leather for me, then. No crunchable birdses, either. No crunchy.
But last night as I was trying to go to sleep, I thought I'd gotten myself up to a whole new level of crazy.
There was a conversation going on in my mouth and I was not the one having it. I was the one listening to it. I heard
Crackle, static, Man 1: Yeah, we really need to get the...out...here
Crackle, static, Man 2: ...Waiting on this long enough
And I thought, am I picking up short wave radio transmissions? Is it the fire department? The police department? But I don't see any red and blue lights flashing. No, I did not get out of bed.
I just lay there, listening to the voices in my head. The voices out of my head, actually. They seemed constructive enough and weren't telling me I was a bad person or anything, so I think I can safely say I remain psychotic-break free.
I picked up my phone. Ordinary dial tone. Cell phone wasn't within easy reach.
But man, I am gaslighting myself like um...crazy...
I keep shoving a hand truck against the semi-broken garden shed and the door keeps opening. Trash keeps getting strewn around my back yard. I hear what I think are heavy thumps on the roof but usually turn out to be Blue running up from the basement.
I don't like this but I also don't devote a lot of time thinking about it.
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Vacation Ideas! For! Queen Mediocretia
In the words of Billy Joel, "Vienna waits for you." Come on. Any place with that much pastry mit schlag ought to be calling your name, my little strudel.
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OOooo! But the plane to Vienna is four grand. That's most of the budget. Hawaii cruise for us, I think. That Euro can't stay strong forever.
I was very concerned about my hypomanic hearing until I found I had left a window open.
Did you get new fillings? New fillings can pick up radio, especially short wave.
"Such is the extremely rare case when a person's mouth acts as a
receiver. The electrical conductivity of the human body can act as an antenna. A metallic filling in a tooth, reacting just so with saliva, can act as a semiconductor to detect the audio signal. The speaker in this case could be anything that vibrates within the mouth enough to produce noise, such as bridgework or maybe a loose filling." http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=367925
Others, of course, including MythBusters, say it's impossible. All I know for sure is that when I was in college, we could hear the local radio station in the campus swimming pool, as long as your ears were underwater. The interesting part was that anyone with fillings could hear it clearly, but folks with no fillings couldn't hear anything.
Ok, I reread, you didn't get new fillings. But the cleaning might have loosened some....
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