I recently did something funny to my jaw. My mom is convinced it has to do with this levitation picture:
Incidentally, I did tip Blue Star Donuts for being so tolerant while I jumped up and down pretending to eat one of their donuts.
I actually just went back to my camera roll to see how many of these I took -- and I took about 20 of these shots, so she might be right. I think it has more to do with how I chew my steak a little too vigorously. Or something. In any case, I can't open my mouth very wide these days without some pain. This makes eating things like burgers very uncomfortable. Or large sushi rolls. I can barely open my mouth to allow space for a PBJ sandwich...and even then it looks extremely peculiar since engineering the maximum coverage of the sandwich requires some careful manipulation.
My mom's worried that I'll get something analogous to lockjaw, so she looked it up and told me not to do the following things:
1). Yawn.
2). Sing really loudly.
3). Eat tough things like steak.
Which, you know, sums up my existence.
My mom's worried that I'll get something analogous to lockjaw, so she looked it up and told me not to do the following things:
1). Yawn.
2). Sing really loudly.
3). Eat tough things like steak.
Which, you know, sums up my existence.
The website my mother looked up also suggested that two times a day, I should go through a heat/icing regimen with my jaw wherein I first put a hot pad on my jaw and then alternate it with an ice pack a few times.
Two times a day is a bit much, but I did try it the other night. For a hot pad, I ran a towel under boiling water. Unfortunately, the ice pack I have barely felt frigid so...I used a slab of frozen meat. Consequently, while I was watching a Buster Keaton movie on Netflix (that man was a genius), I kept switching back and forth between a hot towel and some frozen pork.
Which I can't eat right now because it would require me to chew forcefully. (the pork, not the towel).
Plus I need it to act as my ice pack.
I hope it gets better soon though because I miss munching on chips with no thought of consequence (oh those happy days).
Two times a day is a bit much, but I did try it the other night. For a hot pad, I ran a towel under boiling water. Unfortunately, the ice pack I have barely felt frigid so...I used a slab of frozen meat. Consequently, while I was watching a Buster Keaton movie on Netflix (that man was a genius), I kept switching back and forth between a hot towel and some frozen pork.
Which I can't eat right now because it would require me to chew forcefully. (the pork, not the towel).
Plus I need it to act as my ice pack.
I hope it gets better soon though because I miss munching on chips with no thought of consequence (oh those happy days).
This time last year, I was working three jobs -- teaching music, working as a jack-of-all-trades at a UX Design company, and working at a movie theater. The movie theater was a lot of fun, but it was a bit much juggling three jobs, especially on days I had to do all three. It was a bit of a relief when I got an hour and pay upgrade at my second (UX) job so I could cut back and just do the first two jobs.
This month, my hours at the UX job have been cut in half for an indefinite amount of time...so I picked up a third job again...but I'll leave that for another post. Tomorrow, I work all three jobs. And conquer the world if I feel so motivated.
This month, my hours at the UX job have been cut in half for an indefinite amount of time...so I picked up a third job again...but I'll leave that for another post. Tomorrow, I work all three jobs. And conquer the world if I feel so motivated.
