Wheat, Barley, and Rye, and why they are all making me miserable

Hello everyone (and by everyone I basically just mean bruce since I'm pretty sure he's the only one who reads this thing. If anyone other than bruce reads this, post a comment saying hi and I will promptly die of shock).

I have a few things to talk about today. One could say this post comes to you in 3 parts, vlogbrothers style.

Part the First!
a small public service announcement: 1 in 133 people (or thereabouts) have celiac disease. many of these people have no symptoms, and only find out they have a problem when they find out they are severely anemic or are suffering from multiple nutritional deficiencies. even more people are gluten intolerant, meaning that they don't actually have celiac disease, but they can't really digest gluten. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye and products derived from them. so, if you have any of the following SYMPTOMS, consider getting tested. and if the test comes back negative, go on a gluten free diet for a couple of weeks and see if you feel better. if you do, you may be gluten intolerant.

Part 2:
Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Don't question it.

Part 3:
today, I met Satan. In the form of a dental hygienist. Somehow, the student who cleaned my teeth managed to do so pretty painlessly and without too much bloodshed. the supervisor, however, would simply take one of her very pointy instruments, stick it in my mouth, and proceed to flail it around at random (insert dirty joke here. hahaha, etc., moving on). this occurred repeatedly over the course of almost 3 hours. However, I received some measure of satisfaction from demanding that she find me the ingredients for the brand of toothpaste they use for polishing to ensure it is gluten free. she then proceeded to actually check for the word gluten in the ingredients list. I feel like she is confused as to how these things actually work.

Bonus section- Part 4:
how do you want to find more people? post a thread on yourpants, or get people we know so we can punish them if they miss a day? I vote we find people on yourpants personally. also, I can't think of a title. at all. but I will try to over the next couple of days.

anyway, I'm going to go listen to some more songs from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog now.
Toodles!