A Comic...

A comic I drew last quarter when I was taking MAT 220, Intermediate Statistics, the most satanic course ever devised and mortal enemy of psych majors everywhere...

Yes, my professor actually talked like that. He was hilarious. The only thing that made that class remotely tolerable was his strange sense of humor. I really thought that class was going to kill me. It felt like my GPA was being held hostage. Cuffed to a chair with a gun in its face. But somehow I pulled through!

So, why the random comic? I was inspired by Tessa's Braces, one seriously fantabulous blog that I've been following. I never knew drawing comics was so much fun! And while my cartooning skills in no way compare to those of the lovely and talented Tessa... making comics is WAY therapeutic. And it looks like this little break from studying was just what I needed, cuz... I passed the class! My GPA survived. As a matter of fact, I made deans list!

All that time I spent chillaxing in front of my mac, sifting through strip after strip of Tessa's Braces, must have done my psyche some good.

My Treatment to Date

August/September 2008 : Pink
October 2008: Purple
November 2008: Silver

As you can see, things are progressing nicely. I added an elastic in November. That (green-arrowed) gap in between my canine and my gums appears to be totally normal. I forgot to ask about it at my last appointment, but because my ortho didn't mention it, I assume it's no big deal at all. Also, it doesn't hurt. My gums may not hurt but my teeth sure do, because my last appointment was Friday, the 19th. My ortho took pictures of my canine, which I guess is a good sign. He said that it was was moving a lot, but that it had a long way to go. I forgot to ask if I was supposed to keep my rubber band in, but I guess that's what "it has a long way to go" means, but he didn't specifically say, and I forgot to ask. Oh well! It's the holidays, everyone is in a flustered rush!

Speaking of flustered, I've been too busy/lazy to take and upload good pictures. Plus my teeth still hurt so I don't feel like smiling. But I am done with laced wires and powerchains for a while. But I do have a spring now, over my upper left (un-bracketed) bicuspid, so that my canine will get out of the way enough for my ortho to squeeze in a bracket. It might shift my midline more to the right, but it might not. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...