pike paperbacks

last week, i had two more cavities filled and i swear to god they will be the last ones i ever have.  i will be a fluoride queen for the rest of my life and i will eat only lettuce and drink only water if it comes down to it because this tooth craziness is really making me feel disgusting.  currently, one of the fillings gets a little upset when i crack down on chips or candies and while i'm subconsciously nervous about not having everything totally locked down and pain-free and obviously perfect, i'm not too upset that i now have a built-in diet plan.  i can't eat chips and candy and crap if it's physically painful!  (my grandpa tells me that the offending tooth should settle down soon.)

in other news, i've been taking advantage of the communal book/video libraries at all the various places i work (read: in the teacher's lounge at the school and in the break room at the tar pits) and am now the proud renter of "bonnie and clyde," "philadelphia," and the first season of "six feet under" (all things i've wanted to see forever) and a worn-out copy of a christopher pike young adult novel - the promise of reading it is almost too much for me to handle.  i was first introduced to christopher pike's cheese-tacular teen horror novels when i was about eleven or twelve, volunteering at a table at the local library one summer.  when i wasn't busy handing out cheap plastic prizes to tinier children who completed their summer reading logs, i was trolling the young adult section (conveniently close to my table) and picking out the most scandalous books i could find.  at twelve, books like "go ask alice" and the entire christopher pike collection fit the bill quite nicely.  so, now, as a near-adult, i'm super excited to revisit the thrills i experienced as a preteen as i snuck home a small pike paperback and spent the night reading about high schoolers who found themselves trapped in malls with psychopaths or in tutoring groups with murderers.  a-mazing.