Fulcruming and Positioning

Today I learned how to hold an instrument. Not even to use it, just hold it...and let me tell you it was harder than it sounds! 

Easy: 

+not indenting the knuckles on my pointer finger, because I had a piano teacher that FORCED me to NEVER indent my knuckles. Got that one down.

+keeping my pinky next to my ring finger---for some reason that just made sense to my fingers

+anteriors---can I only clean anterior teeth please?

+posture--I actually didn't do too bad at leaning over today, yay!

NOT easy:

+keeping my ring finger down at the base of the instrument...for some reason I keep my hand positioned higher up?

+doing the left maxillary lingual teeth---who do they think they are, anyway? It took me a really long time to catch this part of the mouth...I couldn't keep a hand with a mirror and a hand with an instrument all in that side of the mouth and figure out how to look at what I was doing. My TA ended up gloving up and demonstrating. It felt better after that.

+Basically everything just feels awkward...good thing we aren't expected to be perfect right away!

It was a great clinic though, and fun to learn! Life is going grand for me. Here's a terrible blond moment from my life yesterday:

Lindsay ran out of milk. Lindsay used her roommate's Sana's milk for breakfast. Lindsay felt bad. Lindsay called Aleesha and talked to Aleesha while she went to Smith's and bought a gallon of milk. Still talking to Aleesha, Lindsay put the gallon of milk in her car, seatbelted up, and started the car. Lindsay can't find her phone. Looks frantically in purse. No phone. Looks frantically in  back seat, and in back pack. No phone. Thinks about walking into the store, and tells Aleesha that she can't find her phone anywhere. Three second lapse. Lindsay realizes she is still talking on the phone to Aleesha. Oh wow. In my defense....yeah. Nothing coming to me.