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Wow today has been full. I went to 7 am yoga and then crept out right before the final meditation to have a dr.s appointment to change my birthcontrol prescription to something cheaper. I just found out that if I hadn't, the price of my brand of birth control would be going up to $45. So now I have shiny new Nuvarings and will be trying that method of hormonal contraception because it is supposed to be more surefire against pregnancy for larger women than the pill (according to my doctor, there is a new study out daying that women who weigh more than 150 or 160 - which is a lot of us may have a higher risk of break through ovulation on various pills).

So I got my new prescription and dropped it at the pharmacy and went to Chinas Peripheries class which was quite good - we got to talk about the effect of the cultural revolution and the Muslim rebellion (19th century) on music in South West China - it is the professors specialist area and she was going gangbusters today. Then I walked down to pick up my much more reasonably price prescription and now I'm eating lunch in the TA office wondering if any of my students will show up.

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I'm having some thoughts about tea stain/tannic acid on my teeth. I've decided that my teeth are significantly more yellow than they have been a few years ago, probably because when I live in the US I drink a lot of tea and when I live in Uzbekistan I drink nothing but tea (okay and I little vodka when I have to).

After a lovely dinner of sweet potato pancakes, spicy sausage, and cornbread with quince jam I made some tea for our tea and chocolate course of the meal. Before I poured the tea I wiped some tannin residue off the rim of my teapot and was thinking that this is exactly the nasty sticky brown stuff that is glued to my teeth - I wonder if there is REALLY anything I can do for it besides give up tea (which I WON'T do).