The Nature Theater of Oklahoma ([info]nuncstans) wrote,
@ 2006-01-20 21:51:00
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Current music:The Mountain Goats - Dance Music

Shoulder to the wheel
I'm not particularly in the mood to write a blog entry, but it's pissing rain and my shoulder is rendering me a shivering, pain-deranged fetus, so I'm not going to that party, because I wouldn't really want to go even if my shoulder were not, in itself, the apocalypse, and now that it is, ipse facto, the End of Days under my broken rotator cuff, I prefer to take an anti-inflammatory and turn up the electric heater and prod my crunchy bone-muscle-ligament-tendons which seem to be getting impossibly grosser and grosser rather than ever healing at all, ever. Because I never did my exercises.

What happened, I think, is that I put too much strain on my long-ago damaged arm during my move. However, I've been so busy trying not to get fired that I've also violated every doctor's rules for everything, including but not limited to not lifting anything heavier than a phone book ever. Thanks a lot doctor, that was such a good rule. Why did I ever break it? Because I don't have three manservant bodyguards? That is hardly a reason if my insurance will pay for a load-bearing robot, to come with me to school, carrying one of those nerdy backpacks on wheels, clumping always twenty paces behind me, but a loving chaperone nonetheless for those late-night walks home. None of this is fair.

In the meantime, my spine has morphed amorously around a large right-side lower-back spasm radiating from a knot the size of a naval orange. I had a massage on Sunday, and while it helped momentarily, I think that Universal Donor's theory is correct, and that the loosening of muscles actually allowed a wormhole to open in the vicinity of my SHOULDER and space mutant leprechauns crawl lickety-split through my clavicle and dance around making disgusting celtic-jig tappety crunchy noises whenever I touch my humerus or do anything else, at all. God I hate monsters.




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[info]maeve66
2006-01-21 02:57 am UTC (link)
But the Mountain Goats are good... I love that song. I love everything I've ever heard of them, in fact.

I'm sorry about both the rain pissing down (which we've had quite a lot of recently, too) and about what sounds a lot worse than aches and pains. That image is frightening, up there. Though it may be his semi-mullet, really. Or the veins-a-poppin'.

Feel better. Yeah, that was the imperative. Somehow I think ordering pains to abate will have an effect. Drink some hot tea or some cocoa.

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[info]constintina
2006-01-21 07:13 am UTC (link)
man, could you do gentle arm excercises that might strengthen your muscles and help prevent further injury? I dunno, your doctor was a moron, there's gotta be a better, healthier way to deal with your arm problems.

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[info]mistersmearcase
2006-01-21 07:28 am UTC (link)
and now that it is, ipse facto, the End of Days under my broken rotator cuff

That reminds me of the phrase in Melville "when it is bleak November in my soul."

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[info]hunterxtc
2006-01-21 07:36 am UTC (link)
God I hate monsters.

As I type this, the original Godzilla (with Perry Mason/Ironside/Raymond Burr as the only English speaking person in the film)... they say he crawled to the surface via the H-bomb... wormholes and H-bombs... I never thought them related until now. I think I will invent warp drive now.

That guy doing the odd exercise with the dumbbells goes to my gym and hits on all the single guys....

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[info]hadaly
2006-01-23 12:23 am UTC (link)
This morning, A. and I went to B&H to buy a camera. As we were walking back down 34th street toward the subway, there was this woman like 10 feet ahead of us who looked just like you from behind. I said to A., "Doesn't that girl look just like [info]nuncstans from behind?" and he said, "Yeah, she even walks like [info]nuncstans!" and I said, "Yeah, you're right!" and then there was a Don't Walk sign and she was just in front of us, but there were a lot of people also waiting at the intersection and then the light changed to walk and we tried to catch up, but she was walking really fast, and then we were at our train station, so we never saw her face. It was better that way, really. I'm sure seeing her face would have ruined the whole exciting illusion. As it was, [info]ausgeflippter caught a glimpse of some big silver hoop earrings, which he said kind of destroyed it.

Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about all your pain. Not that I've ever done such a thing, but maybe you should try yoga.

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[info]nuncstans
2006-01-23 05:20 am UTC (link)
Actually, I am going to a yoga class on Wednesday (for the first time ever). I am very scared.

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