So for the last several days, I've had this antibacterial gauze stuffed inside my jaw bone that kind of comes out of the hole in the bottom of my gum (oh, by the way, don't read this blog entry if you're eating). I've liked having the gauze because I don't have to look at the weird fact that there is a gaping hole in the bottom of my gum that seems to lead to the abyss, to the thing that Robert Penn Warren called "the darkness, which is you."

So the gauze keeps me from having to see the darkness which is me, but then this morning, it was time for the removal of the gauze. This was Sarah's job. A surgeon's daughter, Sarah is expert with tweezers, and she was able to reach in and gingerly remove the gauze. It didn't hurt nearly as bad as I'd feared. And now I can pull down my lower lip and stare into the abyss. The darkness. The oblivion toward which we are all inexorably headed. Have a great day, everybody! (Just kidding. It doesn't even hurt that badly at the moment.)

Speaking of the darkness, which is me, lonelygirl15 (a probably-fake and possibly-Satanic video blogger, for those of you who don't remember) continues to haunt me with her excellent YA-Novel-in-Videos, which now appears to be not a romance novel but a horror novel:

1. There is a new video about Pluto, and also about how Lonelygirl used to get teased. She looks a little tired in it, but hey, so would I if I were about to be ritually sacrificed.
2. Virginia Heffernan was sent an outlandishly creepy audio from Cassie (who used to be friends with Bree and Daniel but has never appeared in the videos). In the audio, Cassie whispers, "I'm scared," and then at the very end, seems to begin to scream.

Tomorrow: Less horror, more romance.