Last friday i was issued retainers and was required to put them in my mouth for post-braces removal treatment. And i seriously regret not paying attention to the nurse when she told me how often i should put it in my mouth. The next appointment is in january, so it's pretty troubling.
I checked out some websites talking about retainers, and some stressed the importance of keeping it in (if not in the worst case scenario i might have to fix braces again) and that there would be a period of time as instructed by the dentist where one has to wear it all day and after that then wear it only at night (while sleeping).
The reason why i fuss so much about it is that it is irritating, annoying, troublesome, specifically gives me trauma whenever i have to take it out to brush teeth or eat and put it back in after that, and worst of all, it makes it very hard, or rather, virtually impossible for me to pronounce words properly.
It's bad given how (most of) society sees and relegates someone who speaks like i do with retainers on to a discriminatory position.
Though websites say the speech problem will go away in a few days, it's still bad as i don't hear signs of it going away after some 2 plus days of wearing myself it.
This calls for drastic measures. Okay i am gonna bring a notepad to school, avoid conversations with my mouth at all costs, and instead write it down in the notepad for this week and see if it works.
So it also means my summary skills are beings tested as well, since my rate of response is handicapped by writing instead of just simply saying it out, and besides people also simply don't have the attention span to keep waiting for a written reply.
Anyway, this period of time is sad because i have a very strong feeling that i will do much worst in the prelim exams than what i had expected myself to do.
So far i only received my chemistry results and know my gp and biology results.
Only biology wasn't that bad. For chemistry i made way, way, way too much careless and stupid mistakes which i felt like stabbing myself when i found them out. Hmm did i seriously enter the exam hall doing these chemistry papers with a wrong state of mind??
For gp it was disappointing for me. I heard that i only managed to scrape through to get the bare minimum passing grade. It's too low a score not fitting for my unreasonably and irrationally awesome-est and overly extraordinarily enormous ego.
Heh it seems i like to derogate myself in my blog.
Currently hooked on classical Touhou music arranges from TAMusic. Seriously, they are awesome.
PROFILE
Ayayayaya ~
Touhou Fan.
Listens mostly to Touhou doujin music
(Because the creator of Touhou (ZUN) is damn talented, his BGM for the game series are godly, including the game series he made itself, and hence many dedicated groups of musicians do arranges of his original BGM)
("Arranges" are one level higher than "covers")
Very Japanese-oriented, absolutely not Korean-crazy like the crowd out there
Watches Japanese anime
Wants to do, learn and try many, many things, but finds it hard to find the time, commitment, and energy to do all of that
Life is short, and i want mine to be especially so