ethnianmandarin:

etirabys:

Today is my first day working from home as a real employed person.

I was in the middle of reading a textbook on Android development when I started absently prodding at the extrapolated-bottom-of-my-teeth with my tongue. If you swipe your tongue down from your lower teeth to your gums, there’s a sudden concavity that you can push your tongue into. At some point my attention transitioned abruptly from the textbook to the physical sensation; I thought, ‘huh, isn’t the lower jaw kind of a C-shape, so there’s no bone between my tongue and the underside of my chin?’

and then, ‘wait, if I stick my index finger into my mouth under my tongue and put my thumb on the underside of my chin, can I just… wiggle? the intermediate flesh?’

For some reason this idea fascinated me – I sprang out of my chair and went to the bathroom, thoroughly washed my hands, and tried it. There’s a lot of meat between your fingers when you do this, but it’s definitely wiggling.

That was a totally novel human experience – I came back to my desk enthralled – and I’ve learned a lesson about the hazardous new universe of distraction that opens up to you when you work from home.

for your next trick, anchor your index and second finger on the bridge of your nose and press your thumb against your hard palate.

if you then gently oscillate you will discover that the whole cartilaginous structure there can gently yield

this has the significant effect of loosening any phlegm that is resting in there, which you will feel flowing down your throat