Episode 57
Holy Mole, Oaxaca and a Tooth Being Yanked From My Face
The joys of Oaxaca and the horrors of dental anxiety, with some foot fingers, excessive girth and a Rumi poem about teeth along the way.
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We're on the bus going home.
Speaker:And I have to get dental surgery in two days.
Speaker:Oops.
Speaker:This is episode 57 of onefjef
Speaker:Hello once again, my friends.
Speaker:Hola, mis amigos y amigas.
Speaker:I went to Oaxaca last weekend, this past weekend, which is another place in
Speaker:Mexico, for those of you who don't know.
Speaker:I think may- maybe you pronounce it Wocks Sock Kaah, if that's a ton
Speaker:how it's spelled to a lot of people.
Speaker:Not to me, of course, but that might make it easier to understand.
Speaker:Anyway, I went there this past weekend with a lovely companion named Este.
Speaker:We had a wonderful time, but I didn't bring my computer
Speaker:or my podcasting equipment.
Speaker:Actually, that's a lie.
Speaker:I have an interview that I did with Este on the bus back.
Speaker:We went to see the biggest tree with the biggest trunk in the world.
Speaker:A tule.
Speaker:The big girth.
Speaker:It was a girth.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Over height.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It was, uh, the biggest tree trunk in the whole world.
Speaker:How was that for you?
Speaker:I would've liked to be able to touch the tree, but only one day
Speaker:a year may you touch the tree.
Speaker:Yeah, the second Monday of- And there's no way I'm going there on that day
Speaker:'cause that's gonna be a madhouse.
Speaker:Can you imagine if we wait in line to touch a tree?
Speaker:Yeah, I very might have been.
Speaker:What are we doing?
Speaker:Um, then we went to the, uh, Aguas de las- Yerbabuena.
Speaker:What are they?
Speaker:Si, that one.
Speaker:The drive was the big adventure of that whole j- that whole thing.
Speaker:The drive was- That was quite a- … rough.
Speaker:Yeah, almost thought about throwing up a couple times, um, but did not throw up,
Speaker:and you were hungover, so- Yeah, I was
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Un poco
Speaker:tequila, mezcal- Mezcal … the night before, so.
Speaker:Too much mezcal the, the night before, but it's beautiful out there.
Speaker:It is.
Speaker:Yerbabuena.
Speaker:It is.
Speaker:I mean- It's very free … what can we say about it?
Speaker:What can you say about- It's nature … yeah.
Speaker:Well, it was in a Cor- And it's crafted … it was in a Corona ad, so that's…
Speaker:What?
Speaker:Doggy.
Speaker:See the dog.
Speaker:Oh, si.
Speaker:Oh, he's just walking down the street.
Speaker:Wow, we're driving down the highway in a bus right now, and there's a dog
Speaker:just- Oh, my God … walking down the street on the side of the highway.
Speaker:Oh, there's people there, though.
Speaker:What are they doing?
Speaker:I don't see them.
Speaker:I think that was an accident.
Speaker:Anyway, the dog will be fine.
Speaker:You often see dogs just wandering around.
Speaker:Mm. Um, what's the prettiest place you've been to in Mexico?
Speaker:Ooh No pressure Actually, the pressure.
Speaker:Yeah, probably Holbox in Quintana Roo.
Speaker:Is that… That's down by Tulum and all that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Si.
Speaker:Colebox it's called.
Speaker:Holbox.
Speaker:What did you like about it?
Speaker:It was, it was, uh, beachy?
Speaker:It's quiet.
Speaker:It's beach, uh, but, um, it's quiet, not crowded, no cars.
Speaker:I like that.
Speaker:No big, uh- Yeah, I like that
Speaker:like that, hotels.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's tiny.
Speaker:But there's probably a lot of that seaweed there this year.
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:'Cause they've got real issues- That's a problem in Holbox … this
Speaker:year, this year- Yeah, yeah … it's been a nightmare.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Huh.
Speaker:When did- I wanna go back … when did you go there?
Speaker:Mm, like, after COVID, immediately after COVID.
Speaker:Oh, okay.
Speaker:We went there to celebrate my birthday.
Speaker:Holbox.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:How do you spell that?
Speaker:H-O-L-B-O-X.
Speaker:Holbox.
Speaker:Holbox.
Speaker:Exactly what I thought.
Speaker:Like a box full of prostitutes.
Speaker:That one I got you.
Speaker:Si.
Speaker:That's where you put all your prostitutes, in the Holbox.
Speaker:And then what else?
Speaker:You bought about 80 pounds worth of m- mole.
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Because we love mole.
Speaker:Si, pero I can't eat- And Oaxaca- Si … pr- produces good mole.
Speaker:S- So if I'm here- The best mole … I need to get mole.
Speaker:Si.
Speaker:I wish I could eat the- Mole rojo, red mole.
Speaker:I wish I could eat the mole, but- Yeah, sorry.
Speaker:No … it's okay.
Speaker:It's okay.
Speaker:Just don't tell me how amazing it is afterwards.
Speaker:It is amazing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I thought of a great name for a mole company that Espi does
Speaker:not care for, but that's okay.
Speaker:And it is Hole Mole.
Speaker:Holy Moly.
Speaker:No, I, it's, if you, uh, people are, uh, if I play this on, it, everybody will be
Speaker:like, "Incredible, Jef." Right, everybody?
Speaker:And I'm gonna make a sticker restaurant that will sell stickers and mole.
Speaker:You like them.
Speaker:New businesses.
Speaker:Si, in the same place.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Me and Espi have a long… No, this is not those shoes.
Speaker:This is something else.
Speaker:Me and Espi have a long-standing d- d- like, a competition as to which c-
Speaker:language has the best version of the word.
Speaker:Like, uh, Mexican or Spanish is, for puzzle, yeah, English, puzzle.
Speaker:In Mexican or Spanish, rompecabezas.
Speaker:Which, rompecabezas wins.
Speaker:I mean, hands down.
Speaker:But then what's oops?
Speaker:Oops in English is oops.
Speaker:In- Well, you could say that in Spanish, but- Right, but- … it,
Speaker:algo salió mal … which, I mean, no.
Speaker:I mean, by the time you say it, you've a- already fallen on your face.
Speaker:Algo salió, boom.
Speaker:So there, put the tie there anyway.
Speaker:We're on the bus going home, and I have to get dials for Adrian in two days.
Speaker:Oops.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:Pal que palta, so what's the- Algo salió mal.
Speaker:Algo salió mal.
Speaker:Algo salió mal
Speaker:Anyway, how are you, my friends?
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:That's great to hear.
Speaker:I'm so happy for you.
Speaker:So profoundly happy.
Speaker:How am I?
Speaker:I'm not great at all.
Speaker:I have to get dental surgery in a matter of about two hours.
Speaker:I know I mentioned my dental issues the last week or the week before, maybe
Speaker:both, and I mentioned how anxious I am at the dentist and so forth and so on,
Speaker:but we're at zero hour now, my friends.
Speaker:Like, I have to go in in about, uh, two hours, as I said, to get a tooth pulled
Speaker:out of my face, and then I guess a implant of some sort placed in the bone of my jaw.
Speaker:Let's not talk about it.
Speaker:Let's not talk about it, 'cause talking about it makes it sound like some sort of
Speaker:a medieval torture, which, again, perhaps it is, you know, dentistry and all.
Speaker:but it's necessary because the tooth hurts and it's gotta go
Speaker:apparently, according to the dentist.
Speaker:So I have to go through this thing and I am feeling
Speaker:a profound level of anxiety about the whole thing
Speaker:I don't understand how people don't get profoundly anxious about having
Speaker:to get this kind of thing done.
Speaker:I'm trying to think if I would be as anxious if, if I was going in for
Speaker:like, I don't know, like a regular surgery that's not mouth-related.
Speaker:I think I probably would be.
Speaker:But for that, I'd probably be put asleep, so that's the biggest difference, is
Speaker:that I'm going to be awake for this, and the idea of being awake while somebody's
Speaker:yanking a tooth out of my mouth, it's not pleasant to think about, nor will
Speaker:it be pleasant to experience, I imagine.
Speaker:Who knows?
Speaker:Maybe it'll be wonderful.
Speaker:Maybe I'll wanna do it again.
Speaker:I don't think so.
Speaker:But again, I'm open to the idea that I may just enjoy this experience
Speaker:I'm not putting money on it though, at all.
Speaker:Why didn't you get anesthesia, Jef?
Speaker:Why didn't you ask them?
Speaker:Well, I did.
Speaker:I did, in fact.
Speaker:And for some reason, it costs an incredible amount of money in
Speaker:Mexico City, or Mexico in general.
Speaker:Almost $1,000 to get anesthesia.
Speaker:So we're foregoing that, and we're going to raw dog it through this.
Speaker:I mean, they're gonna numb my mouth, I assume, but gonna get headphones.
Speaker:I'll listen to headphones.
Speaker:Everything will be fine
Speaker:Deep breaths.
Speaker:Deep breaths.
Speaker:Anyway, so that's why there's not a very long episode this week because I
Speaker:went to Oaxaca, got back late Monday night, and then scheduled this dental
Speaker:appointment and was overcome with anxiety for the last few days about it.
Speaker:And now as the clock ticks closer and closer to the time I have to walk over
Speaker:to the dentist office and get this done,
Speaker:It'll be fine.
Speaker:It will be.
Speaker:I'm trying to ask myself what exactly it is that I am so anxious about.
Speaker:Like, nobody wants to go through unpleasant things, of course, and
Speaker:that's really all that this will be, is an unpleasant thing to go
Speaker:through, and that can build character.
Speaker:Am I right?
Speaker:Like, although the idea of a dental procedure building
Speaker:character is somewhat absurd.
Speaker:Uh, I'm grabbing at whatever straws I can grab at here.
Speaker:So yes, there's a positive thing.
Speaker:This experience will build character.
Speaker:Also, it will prevent my tooth from rotting and falling
Speaker:out, so forth and so on.
Speaker:And this is only part one.
Speaker:I guess I have to go back in, like, three or four, five months once the
Speaker:gaping wound in my mouth heals so they can put the fake tooth in or whatever.
Speaker:Ugh.
Speaker:Honestly, it wouldn't be so bad.
Speaker:Like, a lot of my anxiety comes from the fact that I am in Mexico.
Speaker:I'm in a foreign country where I don't speak the language very well, and
Speaker:I've only been here five months, and it, it's just… Like, were I going
Speaker:through this in, in the United States, yes, I would be anxious, for sure.
Speaker:But there's another level of it here.
Speaker:Do you understand?
Speaker:It's a lot.
Speaker:It's a lot for my poor, anxious mind to deal with But it's gonna happen.
Speaker:It's confirmed.
Speaker:Although I did think this morning, I was like, "Oh, what if I just
Speaker:tell them I'm not feeling well? I can reschedule it. I can put it
Speaker:off." No, you can't do that, Jef.
Speaker:You gotta do it.
Speaker:You gotta be a man.
Speaker:God, it's embarrassing how anxious and scared I am of
Speaker:getting this dental work done.
Speaker:And honestly, I think that anxiety and fear is why I've been putting it off
Speaker:for so long, and probably why I'm in the situation that I'm in right now.
Speaker:But don't look back.
Speaker:Don't look back.
Speaker:Just get your teeth yanked out and move forward.
Speaker:I don't wanna make this entire episode about my teeth, so let's talk about a few
Speaker:more things just so I can make it seem like this episode is actually an episode.
Speaker:Oh, I got a voicemail from a friend of the pod and a friend of mine, Kirsten.
Speaker:Here's some of it.
Speaker:We have quite a bit of bougainvillea here in California, and we call it
Speaker:bougainvillea, not bougainvillea.
Speaker:So I didn't look it up or anything.
Speaker:I don't know what the pro- correct pronunciation is, but there's quite
Speaker:a bit of bougainvillea talk here in California, and we call it bougainvillea,
Speaker:so I thought I'd provide that tidbit.
Speaker:Maybe helpful, maybe not.
Speaker:Anyway, thanks for the new episode.
Speaker:Thank you for the correction.
Speaker:I appreciate it.
Speaker:Uh, yes, that is the way it is pronounced.
Speaker:I was wrong.
Speaker:You are correct.
Speaker:It's pronounced the same in Mexico as it is in the United States.
Speaker:I would say it right now, but I'm editing in the voicemail message,
Speaker:so I don't actually remember what the word is that I mispronounced.
Speaker:I know it's the flower on my porch.
Speaker:Bougainvillea?
Speaker:Is that the wrong way to pronounce it?
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I don't have access to the message right now, so
Speaker:Wow, very professional.
Speaker:Anyway, thank you Kirsten for the voicemail and for the correction.
Speaker:Uh, very helpful.
Speaker:I will no longer mispronounce bougainvillea.
Speaker:I'm still mispronouncing it, I think, but I will check it when I edit this
Speaker:episode, and I will write it down to make sure that I never mispronounce it again.
Speaker:However it's pronounced, that flowering bush on my terrace,
Speaker:the flowers are going away.
Speaker:I don't know if it's a seasonal thing, but they flowered a lot, and then they are not
Speaker:flowering right now, which is unfortunate, but to everything turn, turn, turn.
Speaker:There is a season turn, turn, turn, and so on and so forth.
Speaker:Thank you God for the reminder.
Speaker:When I was in Oaxaca, I learned that the name for toes in Spanish
Speaker:is the same as the name for fingers, which is dedos, dedos
Speaker:So literally toes in Spanish are just foot fingers.
Speaker:Wha-
Speaker:Which is, I'm sorry, it's wrong.
Speaker:It's not right.
Speaker:Estee and I have this longstanding kind of competition.
Speaker:She's a Spanish teacher, and I'm a longstanding friendly competition
Speaker:about which version of the word is better English or Spanish.
Speaker:And for this one, I would say having a word for it, toes, is much
Speaker:better than having foot fingers.
Speaker:Foot fingers, I mean, there's many things that I think about.
Speaker:There's a name of an indie rock band, Foot Fingers.
Speaker:There's the name of the first album of some band.
Speaker:There's, uh, something sexual.
Speaker:I'm not sure exactly what.
Speaker:Uh, there's a lot going on there, uh, but none of it's great.
Speaker:None of it's great.
Speaker:So if you are a purveyor of the Spanish language, a person who is developing
Speaker:it, if you're listening to this by some random thing, let's work on a word.
Speaker:I would never be one to encourage you to add words to the Spanish language
Speaker:because there's already so many.
Speaker:But in this case, I think, yes, you need a word.
Speaker:Instead of foot fingers, you need a word.
Speaker:I imagine there's other languages that use foot fingers too, but I just
Speaker:don't know, and I don't want to know.
Speaker:I don't wanna know
Speaker:I'm gonna have to call this episode Foot Fingers now.
Speaker:Oh, well
Speaker:Worse things happen.
Speaker:Oaxaca.
Speaker:We took the bus to Oaxaca.
Speaker:Took about seven hours to get there.
Speaker:Beautiful drive through the mountains.
Speaker:Mexico's a beautiful country.
Speaker:Lots of different landscapes, really pretty.
Speaker:And the bus drive wasn't-- the ride wasn't bad at all.
Speaker:You know, it was long, but we stopped a few times.
Speaker:It wasn't terrible.
Speaker:One thing I did notice, though, I haven't really been on the highways much here
Speaker:in Mexico, but people drive… Like, in Mexico City, people drive crazy, but
Speaker:in the highways, like, it's nuts, dude.
Speaker:We were in a bus, of course, as I said, and, like, I, you know, I imagine we
Speaker:were going quite slow, and part of it, we were on, like, two-lane roads.
Speaker:So basically, people just pass you whenever they want.
Speaker:They would kinda just pass, and then the cars c- oncoming
Speaker:cars would go into the berm.
Speaker:Like, it was just like how traffic language works here.
Speaker:It was just, like, natural.
Speaker:Single line, double line, doesn't matter.
Speaker:We'll pass whenever we want to.
Speaker:It's nuts, and I can't believe that there's not more accidents because,
Speaker:uh, uh, yeah, it's some crazy driving.
Speaker:It's like the berm is another lane, to be honest.
Speaker:And I was thinking about my friend Gary, who biked all the way to, to
Speaker:Chile, how dangerous it would've been to, to bike on these roads 'cause you'd
Speaker:be biking in the berm, and if cars are just using that as a lane, Jesus.
Speaker:I'm glad he survived.
Speaker:Congratulations, Gary.
Speaker:Oaxaca is also the mezcal capital of Mexico and the world, I imagine.
Speaker:So everywhere there are mezcal distilleries.
Speaker:Everywhere.
Speaker:I mean, boom, boom, left, right, left, right.
Speaker:Just everywhere.
Speaker:We went to a tour for, of a mezcal place, learned how it was made.
Speaker:I don't entirely understand still, but it was interesting.
Speaker:Uh, tequila is a kind of mezcal, as they say.
Speaker:Like, all tequila is mezcal, but not all mezcal is tequila
Speaker:Tequila's made with blue agave.
Speaker:That's the only thing you can make tequila out of, whereas mezcal
Speaker:can be made of all different kinds of agave, I think, apparently.
Speaker:Anyway, we drank a lot of mezcal.
Speaker:Not a lot, enough.
Speaker:It was fun.
Speaker:I don't know if I like mezcal or not.
Speaker:It's like wine here, to be honest.
Speaker:Like, people are very serious about their mezcal here.
Speaker:They showed us this way to drink it.
Speaker:Like, they poured some into a shot glass, and they said, "You put your
Speaker:finger over the middle of the shot, of the opening of the top, and then
Speaker:you smell of the top of the finger and then below the finger, and you're
Speaker:supposed to smell something different."
Speaker:I did not smell m- many different things, but I lied and said that I did.
Speaker:I didn't want to upset the, uh, mezcal maker.
Speaker:We saw the tree with the biggest trunk in the world.
Speaker:I forget what it's called.
Speaker:It's in Oaxaca City.
Speaker:It's not a tall tree.
Speaker:It's a Mexican cypress.
Speaker:Beautiful tree, beautiful, but, like, literally massive trunk, and all
Speaker:I could think of is, like, girth.
Speaker:It's the only word I could think of when I was there.
Speaker:It's weird, and girth kind of comes off as a sexual… Like, length is girth.
Speaker:Anyway, it was a pretty tree, and my brain ruined it by thinking of girth.
Speaker:'Cause there was a church right there too.
Speaker:There were churches everywhere.
Speaker:Oaxaca is so full of churches.
Speaker:Like, every single block, giant, old, amazing-looking biblical church.
Speaker:And right when we got there, like, the first evening we were there, we were
Speaker:walking around, and we had just had dinner or something, and we just stumbled upon
Speaker:this, this huge parade that was apparently for, like, graduating people from
Speaker:college or starting college or something.
Speaker:I think starting college.
Speaker:But huge parade.
Speaker:Like, bands playing, people marching, people with giant, weird costumes with
Speaker:all this… I can't even describe it.
Speaker:I'll put some pictures on the Patreon page, patreon.com/onefjef.
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Speaker:See, that was quick and painless this time.
Speaker:Anyway, it was a magical way to begin the trip.
Speaker:Like, it was just like we were, like, in the parade.
Speaker:We just kinda walked down the street, and boom, there it was.
Speaker:Fireworks, all sorts of things.
Speaker:Super fun.
Speaker:That's kind of the nature of the whole trip, really.
Speaker:It was just kind of a magical trip.
Speaker:Yeah, super fun.
Speaker:One night we were drinking in this bar, uh, sitting on this patio, like
Speaker:just a second-floor patio, and I looked down, and there was a person dressed
Speaker:in, like, a rabbit robot costume.
Speaker:It was like a rabbit but had, like, glowing eyes, uh, holding a, a knife,
Speaker:which I assume was fake, but just kind of walking down the street holding a knife.
Speaker:So I don't know.
Speaker:I don't know what to say about that
Speaker:I didn't see them stab anybody, the, the knife-wielding rabbit costume person
Speaker:And we had this meal at this restaurant, the first word of which is yeast, which
Speaker:is not generally a word I would suggest is a good word to put in the title of
Speaker:a restaurant, at least not in English.
Speaker:But I guess in Spanish it works out better.
Speaker:I don't remember the word for yeast, but apparently the first
Speaker:word of this restaurant is yeast.
Speaker:It's a very well-regarded restaurant.
Speaker:I think Michelin-listed or something.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:So we went there, and we had this, like, appetizer, uh, tomato salad thing.
Speaker:This was possibly one of the best things I have eaten in years.
Speaker:I didn't think tomatoes could taste so good.
Speaker:It was all different kinds of tomatoes arranged beautifully, and there
Speaker:was kind of this, like, uh, was it beet, like, puree underneath it.
Speaker:My friends, I would go back to Oaxaca just to eat that tomato dish again,
Speaker:and I'm not a big foodie, to be honest.
Speaker:I like good food, but I'm not like, "Uh-huh, I don't know how to do it."
Speaker:This was… It was transcendent.
Speaker:It was transcendent.
Speaker:Now tomatoes taste like shit to me because they're not made like this or whatever.
Speaker:They're not-- I don't know what they did.
Speaker:Maybe there were drugs in them.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker:It was still good.
Speaker:So yeah, if you're in Me- if you're in Oaxaca, if you go to Oaxaca, find
Speaker:the restaurant th- the name of which starts with the Spanish word for yeast.
Speaker:I wish I could help you out a little more than that.
Speaker:But, you know, it's fun to have to look things up and figure
Speaker:them out yourself, isn't it?
Speaker:It is.
Speaker:It is
Speaker:We took a tour bus out to this place called Monte Albán, Monte Albán, and
Speaker:it's this, I don't know, 500 BC was founded, this, you know, the ancient
Speaker:Zapotec people, I believe, who were the original people who were in Oaxaca.
Speaker:This is where they, you know, hung out, this whole amazing structure
Speaker:on the top of this mountain that you can kind of see the whole city from.
Speaker:It's incredible, and as you're driving out there, like, you understand why
Speaker:Oaxaca is the mezcal capital of the world because there is literally
Speaker:agave growing everywhere, like as far as the eye can see, agave,
Speaker:agave, agave, agave, agave, agave.
Speaker:So if somebody was like, "Oh, look at all the… What can we do with
Speaker:all…? Oh, we can make mezcal." That's how I imagine it started.
Speaker:Anyway, this Monte Albán was kind of spectacular, and our
Speaker:tour guide was very good.
Speaker:I wish I could, um, explain why or how, but he was good.
Speaker:He was like a performer, you know?
Speaker:Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker:Anyway, I am becoming distracted because I need to prepare to go to
Speaker:the dentist in about 45 minutes.
Speaker:So I'm gonna do some yoga.
Speaker:I think it's a good idea, and I will finish this later or not.
Speaker:Maybe it's already done.
Speaker:Maybe it's done.
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Speaker:you can give, I really appreciate.
Speaker:Speaking of mouth, I'm getting dental work done today.
Speaker:And I'm trying to think of a good teeth-related quote if I'm
Speaker:really gonna end this episode.
Speaker:Uh, I don't know one offhand.
Speaker:I'd have to look one up, a tooth-related quote.
Speaker:Did Rumi say anything about teeth?
Speaker:I doubt it.
Speaker:I doubt it.
Speaker:What was dentistry like in Rumi's day?
Speaker:I wonder.
Speaker:I bet I could have, like, AI write a poem about teeth in the style of Rumi.
Speaker:Let's do that right now.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Write a poem about teeth or dental work.
Speaker:Let's do dental work.
Speaker:Dental work in the, the style.
Speaker:This is exciting, isn't it?
Speaker:Rumi.
Speaker:Here we go.
Speaker:Oh.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:The dentist takes the tooth, and I say, "But this has always
Speaker:been me." The tooth laughs.
Speaker:"No, beloved. I was only something you were holding onto."
Speaker:Then the drill begins, and the old pain leaves through a tiny door.
Speaker:What remains is empty.
Speaker:What remains is space.
Speaker:And Rumi whispers, "Wa- what? Why?" Rumi does not insert
Speaker:himself into his poems, whatever.
Speaker:And Rumi whispers, "Do not fear the space.
Speaker:This is where the new thing will grow
Speaker:Six or seven out of 10, I'd say.
Speaker:I, I disagree with the ending because nothing new is going to
Speaker:grow in the socket of the tooth, but it's a good effort, ChatGPT
Speaker:Hello all.
Speaker:I thought I'd give you an update.
Speaker:I just got back from the oral surgery, the extraction of the tooth, and the
Speaker:implant, which involves putting some sort of a metal object in my jaw.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:The good news is I'm alive.
Speaker:I am in pain, and I am drooling blood, but I am, I'm alive.
Speaker:It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Speaker:Of course, your anxiety gets the best of you, and you… Yeah, I
Speaker:didn't really feel much of anything.
Speaker:And there's a new neighbor with dogs
Speaker:And it may drive me to the edge of my sanity
Speaker:Anyway, I'm really exhausted, uh, but I did wanna just throw an update in there.
Speaker:It's not over.
Speaker:I have to go back next week and get some stitches removed or
Speaker:something, and I can't exercise.
Speaker:I can't eat solid foods.
Speaker:Uh, I'm gonna be drooling blood for a day, so that's exciting.
Speaker:Uh, but it's over for… The worst part is over, I think.
Speaker:I hope.
Speaker:Yeah, there's a sense of relief
Speaker:And also a sense of, "Now I have to pay for this."
Speaker:But I'm gonna go lie down now and, uh, continue, get a Kleenex to
Speaker:mop up the blood that's pouring out of my mouth right now.
Speaker:Not pouring, but you know what I mean.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Sorry if I'm mumbling.
Speaker:I can't really move my, my entire side of my face is numb, so that's exciting too.
Speaker:Love you guys.
Speaker:Very good, Jeffrey
