This really has been a strange summer. I've been taking vacation in odd bunches here and there, I managed to tweak my back a week or so ago so that was a setback, and nobody at work knows when to expect me in because I'm either at my desk, on vacation or in collective bargaining ( Read more... )

Hmm, I did not mean to vanish for so long. After my last post, in which I was very angry about some disorganized faculty putting me in a position to work through the holiday weekend, I discovered that bad temper brings its own punishments, or something. In short, on the Victoria Day Monday I was doing nothing in particular when I felt a tearing ( Read more... )

I've already related the sad story of Mitzi being puffy but not-sore on a foreleg, but then later getting a little bit sore on it after all and I felt like a bad mother and decided a solid month off would be a good thing ( Read more... )

Went out to check on Mitzi tonight--her leg seemed better, and was nearly normal after ten minutes' hand-walking. I rubbed it with liniment after about fifteen minutes' walking (it seemed a little tender but I may have imagined it after our walk ( Read more... )

... we all have 'em ( Read more... )

Damn, man. I know I'm out of shape, and I know we worked harder than usual in the lesson on Sunday, but it seems a bit much that the muscles on the outside of my thighs have just suddenly seized up entirely. I told friends yesterday that I feel like the Tin Man, in desperate need of an oilcan ( Read more... )

So I'm watching an episode of season six of Emergency! Dr Morton, a known fussbudget anyway, is tying up the squads by calling for IVs on really minor runs, so the paramedics can't go back into service until they hand over the patient ( Read more... )

Not that I intend to attempt bass in addition to my efforts on guitar, but I'm watching the isolated "Ox Cam" footage of "Won't Get Fooled Again" and Entwistle's impressive manual dexterity and reflecting on stories that The Who got as loud as they did because the other three were trying to make themselves heard over John ( Read more... )

I mentioned yesterday that my left leg was ouchy, and I wasn't sure if it was a result of bad posture while embroiled in chat reference questions the night before (the problem started during the 8-10 PM chat reference shift I covered on Wednesday) or if it was a precursor to new and exciting disc issues ( Read more... )

So last night I was at work until 10 PM (one of the students who worked chat reference wanted an evening off, because of a visiting family member.) As I left the library, I suddenly noticed my left leg was mysteriously sore. It's still ouchy today. I can't decide whether it's similar to the ouchiness I felt in my right leg before my back blew up, ( Read more... )