Comedy legend Bill Cosby to open IU Auditorium season: IU News Room: Indiana University

Hello Friend! I saw Bill Cosby at the IU Auditorium on Friday night. It was pretty neat for me to take along the boys to a family-friendly comedy event, and they enjoyed it a bunch. Cosby's humor is not age specific, and doesn't need editing or too much interpretation to be enjoyed by all ages.

Cosby returned throughout his monologue to the themes of college and parenting a college student, appropriate given the venue. Also he covered the comedy monologist's standard of male-female relations, from a biblical perspective. There was a lovely bit about his wife and he as empty nesters.

To punctuate his punch lines and theorizing, Cosby would occasionally 'vogue' at the audience, striking an hugely exaggerated facial expression and freezing it until he audience silenced again. At times it seemed overdone; but mostly, it was amazing to see how much his facial expressiveness had progressed beyond the early days (see below for an example of that).

Cosby finished off with the Dentist routine, faithful to the standard routine, but also refreshed and still funny as ever.

Dentistry and Earthquakes

I have to have a tooth crowned, one of my molars has fractured beneath the filling along the side of the tooth. I am not handling this well. I scheduled the appointment for next week, but did my usual call-me-if-there's-an-earlier-opening bit with the appointment setter. She did, so I got moved up to today.

I know I should feel lucky. They found it while I have dental insurance, the tooth is salvageable, I don't have any big events or travel coming up that this will interfere with, I've got the money for my co-pay available without a problem, and I don't have an emergency situation here where I've actually cracked a chunk off my tooth. But I just hate the procedures; I had a really, really bad time with my wisdom teeth extraction and I can feel panic rising. My boy's daycare provider said if she had it done, she'd have them do it under general anesthetic - not an option for me since the multi-day hangover/reaction I get from anesthesia is awful.
---
Update: I've got the temporary crown on now, after 2 hours in the dentist's chair. Ow. They took out 3/4 of the tooth, left most of the exterior surface but I lost a lot of the interior surface, due to where the crack was. I feel like I'm in mourning for my lost tooth. ETA is the first week of May for the permanent crown. I'm sore, and am taking Ibuprofen to help with that. Also - I remembered to bring my ipod to listen to during the process, but forgot to charge it up beforehand so basically it was just a token comfort item only. They had to stop 2 times during the procedure when I asked them to; also the Novocaine kept wearing off, which is normal for me, so they stopped to reinject me too. The dentist said that happens sometimes with nervous patients; the heartrate increases and adrenaline rush contributes to a faster metabolic rate for processing the Novocaine.

Oh - and on an (hopefully) unrelated note, I experienced my first earthquake today. I woke up thinking that the dogs were bouncing around on the bed, and then noticed the dogs were already on bed next to me and were alert. Also the noisy birdsong of the morning had stopped and it was deathly quiet out - very spooky. Bo was up and noticed some things moving around in the house, e.g. the towels were swaying on the towel bar and the house made a creaky-shuddery noise too. the boys slept through it. The epicenter was over the border in IL about 160 miles away, and was a magnitude 5.4 - from here the USGS estimates the effect would be about a 3. Wild! Ok, you Californians may laugh about this tiny quake if you like. I can't believe you deal with these regularly; they are freaky.