Upping the Down

20 months.

My ortho, for the third month in a row has placed yet an even stronger wire on my top teeth and made it his mission to turn my back right molar a full 90 degrees. Yes, it hurts as much as it sounds like it does.

You may have noticed that the countdown clock on the right side of the blog has gone from 116 to 177 days left. That's because, when I pressed him, my doctor said that it would look more like 6 more months than 4 to complete what we need to do. (I told him I needed to mentally prepare for how much longer this will really take.) To me, 2 months more won't do much and the work that needs to be done will probably take me to the end of the year. I would love to be proven wrong, but I'm trying to be realistic. The disappointment I felt when I convinced myself that this would all be done in 18 months is something too crushing to revisit.

I just finished reading A Visit From The Goon Squad and in that very well done book (which just won the Pulitzer!) it is time that is the eponymous goon. After my appointment today, I can attest that time is indeed a goon.

But if we're going to break it down, "Goon" could also be read as "Go On." So go on is what I'll do.