Preamble Phelps & Munro
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the other day, i met up with buddy david at sf state and had lunch. i’ve known him for a bit. he’s this redhead french fry from paris who i met through eiji, ku’s ‘big brother’/babysitter when he was 3. we hooked up to bat around and peep sf state babes during that hot day before his class. it was a good talk about upcoming projects.
i had an appointment with the dental surgeon who convinced me to pull out my bad tooth. ‘you have no choice, son’ he said. my wisdom teeth are still in their sockets and ‘no. 1′, right rear tooth, had a cavity that opened the air up to the nerves. it’s been hurting bad! anyways, two dentists told me to pull it out to avoid a root canal, so i went and set up the appointment with dr. dumas (haha! ‘dr. dumbass!’), who also was a facial surgeon. he spooked me out, actually, cuz his face was falling off…i wondered what’d he’d do to my teeth!!!
anyways, he stuck my gums twice with a cyringe. i thought it’d hurt…but i actually kinda liked it. after 15 minutes, i was all numb. he came in the op room with his assistant and pulled the tooth out with such swift quickness that i didn’t even have time to flinch! it was like less than 2 minutes and it didn’t hurt one bit! fucking awesome…and so was the bill! i don’t have insurance so i had to fork for the whole thing…$300 to pull it out. i wondered if i coulda just done it myself by tying a string around my tooth at one end and tie the other on the door knob and slamming the door till the tooth flew out. i’m glad i chose dumbass! cuz the fucking healing was quick!! after he pulled it out, i asked if i could keep the tooth so i could show my son and make a necklace out of it. he thought that was weird…but his face was weird and i didn’t say anything, so i asked. the assistant chuckled.
being my day off on that day (wednesday) i picked up ku after school. i took the bus from sfsu all the way to twin peaks and walked a bunch and spat all kinds of blood from my mouth that i was reminded of its loving taste. as soon as i saw ku, he ran up to me and smiled ear to ear and yelled, ‘LOOK DADDY!!!’ his bottom tooth fell out!!!!!!!!!!
i was like, ‘YO, TYKE! I HAVE ONE TOOTH GONE TOO!!!’ his face lit up so bright as he was hugging me! ‘YEY! WE’RE TWINS!’ he yelled. yea we were. that was so syncronistic and awesome. he had his in a little plastic container shaped like a tooth. i guess it happens often enough that his kindergarten school developed a way to deal with something as simple as that.
i pulled out my extracted tooth from my pocket to show him. the nurse gave it to me after the surgery and expressed how gross it was. haha! lol. but her bf is about to go to the media school where i teach at so we both shot the shit about it for a minute and she gave me my tooth with no hesitation. she was really nice.
later, i realized… ku’s not a baby anymore. i know he’s just 5.75 yrs old but his losing his teeth just woke me up. he’s getting older and i spend too much time at work. another stranger by the bus stop at the park once said, ‘you’ll have lots of time with your son as an adult. you only have now to spend it with him as a llittle kid.’ i instantly missed him while with him. i’m always at the cutting room and the studios and spend only breakfast with him. it’s been like for 6 months now. i’m there at work for over 40 hours a week working on 4 short films at a time.
i only get paid for 40 but, i swear, i’m there 60. meanwhile, expression won’t give me benefits…my ‘new boss’ (a counterpart who was recently promoted) keeps resisting giving me lecture hours, which would allow me to work less for more money, and in a very well rehearsed way continued to discourage me from thinking that the opportunity would ever be there, similar to the conversations i had with former bosses who also constantly hired underqualified namedroppers and never acknowledged my career achievements and technical mavericks. my only explanation that would make the best sense is that subtle bigotry is again at work. but, i hate thinking of things like that.
so, i’m putting together an updated reel and revamping my resume to shop out for gigs (if anyone knows of anything, please let me know).
i also took time off of work today to spend it with ku. he’s soooo awesome! we had breakfast (german nutella on toast was bombin’!). then we went and had coffee with my sister who picked ku and my license suspended ass up to drop off at the gym for more kiddy acrobatics. that was fun!
then mcdonald’s without a flinch! ku was so happy. that was nice.
then to amoeba! we bought a bunch of classic disney stuff like ‘the rescuers,’ ‘jungle book,’ and ‘101 dalmations’ for him and the original benny hill movie (b/w) and episodes of ‘the young ones’ for mi self.
afterwards, we hiked through golden gate park through the aids memorial creek which was paved within this year. it’s awesome. then to de Young museum. that place is OFF THE FUCKING HOOK!!! we waited one hour in line to get in but i figured if we waited 3 years i could wait 1 hour. so we did.
ku was disappointed there weren’t animals there. but the painting and the mixed media pieces were fucking insanely good!!!! it was fun. there were belly dancers and carnival dancers, stilt walkers, and killer paintings that were mindblowing!
rest assured, the rest of the night was real and happy.
i have pics. i’ll post them when i find a mini usb cable. haha! can’t wait to take a pic of my bloody tooth and post it! lol.
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morn porn. i wish! xo
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