Last night I woke, spat half of a tooth into my hand, examined it sleepily and set it next to my lamp at my bedside. It was surreal. I've had dreams of breaking teeth and teeth falling out before. I wasn't sure if I was awake or if I was asleep. I went to the bathroom, decided not to turn the light on and decided not to look in the mirror, lest I have nightmares about toothless smiles. I went back to bed and had nightmares about toothless smiles.
When I woke again this morning I thought all of it was a dream, but the half-broken tooth remained at my bedside, and there was an empty space in my mouth where there hadn't been before.
This is okay. That tooth was already broken. It broke in half three years ago, so I wasn't super surprised when it broke again. But I think I need to go to the dentist.
Yesterday I started an account with 750words.com. If you haven't heard of this website, it's really neat. I recommend it. It's for writers, and thinkers and people who are alive. Basically you just get on and write, write, write until you've reached at least seven hundred fifty words. This is supposed to clear your mind of clutter, something I often have a very difficult time with.
It's based on the idea of "morning pages," where you write three pages every morning when you wake up, before you do anything else. It's supposed to help improve your writing. I just find it to be very therapeutic. It's private and there is no setting that allows other people to read it. So I just go go go until my thoughts have stopped. I like to read the information that the website draws from whatever I write. It gives statistics like the words you most frequently use, how you were feeling when you wrote it, and how long it took to read 750 words. So far I am most amazed by how it accesses my feelings. Yesterday I didn't think I wrote anything to indicate how I felt and it still accessed my emotional status very accurately. So yeah, you should try it. I am glad that Joel and Deanna told me about it.
Today I am getting my dreads worked on and I am very excited about that.
I should go home and eat. I am hungry.
Blah blah blah blah. I should start taking notes throughout the day. I always think about things I want to write later and then forget.
Anyway, I love you and I'll see you later.
~Nadj
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Every time I write a blog or a journal entry, I have a thought that I wasn't initially going to write about, and then I get stuck on that thought and my whole entry ends up being about that. It's really annoying, because I still don't express myself fully. I remember, "oh yeah, I was going to write about that, that's what I was really going to share."
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I can't wait to see your dreads. :)