Do you live near a teaching university or school of any kind? You could volunteer as a patient for students.

Toothpaste for sensitive teeth. Mouthwash with fluoride. Night guard.

Have you been eating anything really hard or chewy? I find that it’s best if I stay away from Skittles or hard Sweet Tarts and even sometimes Kettle Chips or bread with a hard crust. My teeth will really hurt for the next day or two.

You can pay cash for a check up and x-rays — usually running about $125 or less — and dental schools, if you can find one local to you, often have clinics that run on a sliding scale.

Any dental schools/dental hygiene classes nearby?

I know someone who didn’t have dental insurance but went to a dentist office and offered to pay in cash if they would give her a check-up and a discount, and they did it. Worth a shot if you have the confidence to try it?

All of them or one specific tooth?

I finally made the leap and told someone in my circle some of the things that have been going on with Big Foot. It was a relief to have it out in the open with at least one person who knows me by name.

The one example given is... not that great. Programming as a field in 1950 when it was dominated by women is radically different from today. I’d venture that it’s not even the same field, despite the same name.

While I agree that pay goes down when women enter the field, this section is not necessarily indicative of much where it regards women:

Wait, so you are saying when a career field has an influx of qualified labor, the wages drop collectively? No shit, that is how things work when the more labor is introduced into a system.

This sounds like it’s going to be a complete character assassination of Carol Danvers and will probably be the second dumbest thing Marvel has ever done to the character. Right below Avengers #200.

The only problem with that sort of declaration is that a person’s truth is subjective. I mean you and I read that and we’re thinking about standing in the way of southern segregationists, nazis and the like. Someone else could use that same speech and plant themselves in the way of gay marriage, marijuana…

Well, to get inside his head for a moment, he IS a victim.

Totally. I’m fairly confident that if you went to Labrie before his trial and asked him if he thought rape was wrong, he would have said it was. I’m also fairly confident that Labrie had no idea that his actions could be considered rape and that he was shocked and bewildered by the fact that he was on trial. He…

As to the headline... well, duh.

While I’m all about a diverse bachelorette, I would not have tuned in for Caila. She was low-key crazy, and not in an endearing or amusing way. I think ABC was going to cast her, but she was just too boring. I seriously doubt this was a race issue. It was a boring issue.

I lost my job on Wednesday, so, the rest of this week has mostly been about that. I’m torn because while I know I made some stupid mistakes and was not giving the position my all, I also felt from the beginning that I wasn’t given adequate guidance in my role and had almost zero feedback or oversight. I know that some…

I have pretty much had all I can take of Big Foot’s attitude today. She went to court earlier in the week which amounted to me signing a paper and filling out a form to be assigned an attorney. I drove more than two hours to sit in a room for 5 minutes. And now the attitude has kicked in- she sold her shoes to her…

Shockingly, making something illegal does nothing to keep the workers marginalized by those laws safe and protected from workplace violence and employer/client abuses.