I have a toothache. I feel like it hurts quite a lot, like it hurts to swallow because even that small amount of suction pulls at it. But I wonder if it really does hurt all that much. I may just be noticing it because my roommate recently had an horrible toothache, which turned out to be an abscess, which became so infected that his face was greatly swollen, and once the infection was fought off with antibiotics, he had two teeth pulled and then stitches. His toothache has been a month-long ordeal so far, and he's still on painkillers.

So I wonder if this is really a negligible amount of pain, or if seeing what he's been through has just made me sensitive to it, focus on it. Even so, I am sensitive to it, focused on it, and therefore.... I woke up in a lot of pain this morning. It sucks, because I went to sleep with a really bad headache last night, thinking, "if my head doesn't hurt significantly less in the morning, I may have to call out from work!" And so I had the idea of calling out in my head, but my head hurts much less today. And if this toothache really is as bad as Josh's, I will be staying home from work, at least at some point. But I really just don't know if this is all in my head, or if I really am in such great pain.

I suppose I'll have to wake up (I just rolled out of bed, so I'm only half-awake) and wait, and see.

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In other news, I finished reading Watchmen yesterday. I hadn't read it since 1996 or so.
Back in November/December/January, I read a piece on the movie, which didn't leave me too hopeful. The gist was, Zack Snyder saw them making a Watchmen movie and thought it looked horrible, so he stepped in with the attitude that it shouldn't be made into a movie, however if it was going to be then at least it should suck as little as possible.
I was pretty pleased with the movie, however now I've re-read the book, the best I can say for the movie is, it sucks less than it could have. But also, the movie could have been better, if he'd taken some liberties (okay, some MORE liberties; he really just sauced it up). It suffers like Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie suffered--by being too close to the book. Like a mugshot isn't a person, so these movies aren't their stories. They are two-dimensional representations of what you see on the surface.

Anyway.