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Monday night I went to English Country Dancing. It really helped a lot to spend two and a half hours unable to think about anything but movement and music. I think it helped me to sleep well and have a much better day on Tuesday.

Today I have an emergency dental appointment at 3:30, argh. I hope I can get away with just an X-ray and some antibiotics today - the dentist's nurse thought I probably could - but any way you look at it, this is probably a sign that I have to stop avoiding regular dental visits. I haven't been in three years.

When I called the dentist assigned to me by my insurance plan, I discovered that although I live in a very large city with lots of dentists, I had been given a dentist in Westminster, a small town quite far from Baltimore. (Take a look at the map here.) It took about an hour on the phone to get things straightened out so that I now have an assigned dentist less than two blocks away from my house, an appointment with said dentist for this afternoon, and a prescription for prophylactic amoxicillin from my primary care doctor. (Because of my artificial hip, I'm required to take a large dose of antibiotics right before I have dental work done.)

Even with the dental stuff, I'm still feeling better today. Good.

Useful tip.

Any day can be made more exciting by the simple expedient of falling down and scraping both knees.

Second time I've fallen in a week, damn it, although at least the first time I was wearing jeans and didn't hurt myself.