curious-george

After my dentist extracted my lower right 2nd molar last week, she looked slightly confused when she took a closer look at the tooth. After doing a little research I have found that lower molars are only supposed to have 2 roots, whereas mine had 4! The roots were also quite a bit longer than usual.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of info about supernumerary roots on the net (only a short paragraph on wikipedia which seems to be copied word for word on a number of other health and dental websites). I have yet to find any source or article indicating how prevalent cases of extra roots are.

This is a little weird, but I had a tooth extracted yesterday (it had an abscess and was badly infected) and its a really freaky/unusual tooth (it had an unusual number of roots that are much bigger than an average length) and being a bit of a geek I wanted to keep it.

The problem is that the tooth smells rancid. I tried sterilising it in boiling water but the smell only subsided for a few hours and then came back. I then tried soaking the tooth in bleach but again the rancid smell returned. I might try freezing it next and see if that works.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can get rid of the smell without damaging the tooth?

In my last job (at a fish and chip shop) I was not given access to the weekly rota (which changed every week) and I would simply be told when my next shift would be at the end of my working day.

My shifts could finish any time between 7pm and midnight and my next shift could start any time between 10am and 12pm the next day, which means that on many occasions i would be given less than 12 hours notice of when I would next be working.

In addition to this I would more often than not be given shifts like "11-Finish" however finish could be any time between 8pm and midnight, and I would often not be informed of when "finish" would be until the supervisor phoned up to say "Okay, you can start closing the shop and cleaning up now" - in other words, there would be no notice whatsoever.

Is this legal?

A few years ago someone in my literature class recommended a book to me.

It's set in a futuristic society where some kind of natural disaster has caused the majority of women to be infertile. The few women who are fertile work as 'mistresses' who are paid by wealthy couples to bear children for them (or something like that). The story follows the life of one such girl, whose name I either never knew or have forgotten. Nor can I remember the title or the author of the book ... which makes it rather difficult to find.

If anyone knows what name and/or author of the book I'm describing is then please comment. Thanks :)