OUCH!

I can't quite figure out what's worse, Hillary Clinton's determination to drag Obama down with her or what I had done in my mouth today. On one hand you've got a power mad woman with no chance of getting the nomination who refuses to see the writing on the wall and step aside to let her team win the game. And on the other hand, you've got 4 hours of dental hell. Since I don't have dental insurance, the only way I can afford to do anything with my teeth is to be the test subject for a dental student to take her board exam. This involves several visits before the actual exam. Today I spent two hours getting x rays. Those things tore up the roof and sides of my mouth pretty badly and made me almost gag. I was OK with it at that point since I am getting this done for free. But then I spent the next two hours in the chair with a test cleaning. This was to make sure that I would be a good candidate for her actual exam, and it involved major scraping under the gum line and what felt like a dozen of novocaine shots. Getting the shots hurts, but once they were in, I didn't feel much else, though I could tell that she was really digging hard in there. Once the novocaine started wearing off, it felt like somebody gave me a curb job. I'm rubbing oragel on every 15 minutes. I still can't figure out which is worse, but I sure wish there was something to numb the pain of watching Hillary Clinton not knowing when to just quit. Whoever figures out how to make political anesthetic could become a gazillionaire.