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The very first morning of my holiday, coming down the hotel steps at 4:30am (to try and see sunrise and Angkor Wat, not as a result of a tryst as my Coordinator initially thought I was telling her) I rolled my ankle. It was absolute agony, however a bus was waiting to take us to an incredible site, so I hobbled onwards. I then walked round one of the temples, including up a very steep set of stairs, and then sat on the (airconditioned) bus while the rest of them saw two further temples that were by all accounts even better than the first. I rested and compressed it for a few days and then strode confidently onwards for a week.
On getting to Ho Chi Minh City my ankle felt a little not right, and I felt like I would like some attention. There was also the consideration that if I didn't get it checked out before I went back to work and there was a problem then I would have to fly to Bangkok for about a week to sort it. (It is a mark of my enjoyment of my job that I didn't even want to do this a little bit.) Anyway - xray fine, MRI showed a small tear in a tendon, so I am currently on crutches and wearing a leg brace. Everyone is making much of me while I repeat "it doesn't hurt at all, I'm just meant to keep the weight off it".
The sunrise wasn't even particularly impressive. Sunrises rarely are in my experience. (I have seen probably fewer than 5, since I dislike being awake early in the morning and loathe being out of bed.) It gets light before the sun technically rises, so it feels like a letdown because I can already SEE but there is no sun, and then the rosy fingered dawn is more vaguely pointing than jazzhands.
I did quite enjoy having an MRI. Not the experience itself, which was dull and a little uncomfortable (not too obscenely loud becasue it was only my foot in the machine), but having had a go. I did slightly worry about my piercings. I was going to take the nipple one out but there was no privacy, and can't take out the clit hood by myself but after announcing in a determinedly matter of fact tone "I have metal in my vagina and it cannot be taken out" (yes yes, not vagina, but felt like the easiest approach to take) the tech said it didn't matter, and nothing zipped out of my body and adhered to the machine with a clang, so both injury and embarrassment were avoided.
If these were the Old LJ Days I would do a poll about the different ways one can use "mind you", after I noticed that many letter writers to Ask a Manager use it to mean "bear in mind", while I use it much more for "well, saying that..". That's not very clear, is it. Okay, real example from AAM: "She kept insisting that I was angry with her -and mind you, she was the one who refused to speak with me". And I might say "I will love Peter Deluise til the end of time. Mind you, Dawn French probably said that about Lenny Henry." The first is like AND ANOTHER THING, and the second is hang on, scratch that. I am wondering if it's a US/UK difference.
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On getting to Ho Chi Minh City my ankle felt a little not right, and I felt like I would like some attention. There was also the consideration that if I didn't get it checked out before I went back to work and there was a problem then I would have to fly to Bangkok for about a week to sort it. (It is a mark of my enjoyment of my job that I didn't even want to do this a little bit.) Anyway - xray fine, MRI showed a small tear in a tendon, so I am currently on crutches and wearing a leg brace. Everyone is making much of me while I repeat "it doesn't hurt at all, I'm just meant to keep the weight off it".
The sunrise wasn't even particularly impressive. Sunrises rarely are in my experience. (I have seen probably fewer than 5, since I dislike being awake early in the morning and loathe being out of bed.) It gets light before the sun technically rises, so it feels like a letdown because I can already SEE but there is no sun, and then the rosy fingered dawn is more vaguely pointing than jazzhands.
I did quite enjoy having an MRI. Not the experience itself, which was dull and a little uncomfortable (not too obscenely loud becasue it was only my foot in the machine), but having had a go. I did slightly worry about my piercings. I was going to take the nipple one out but there was no privacy, and can't take out the clit hood by myself but after announcing in a determinedly matter of fact tone "I have metal in my vagina and it cannot be taken out" (yes yes, not vagina, but felt like the easiest approach to take) the tech said it didn't matter, and nothing zipped out of my body and adhered to the machine with a clang, so both injury and embarrassment were avoided.
If these were the Old LJ Days I would do a poll about the different ways one can use "mind you", after I noticed that many letter writers to Ask a Manager use it to mean "bear in mind", while I use it much more for "well, saying that..". That's not very clear, is it. Okay, real example from AAM: "She kept insisting that I was angry with her -and mind you, she was the one who refused to speak with me". And I might say "I will love Peter Deluise til the end of time. Mind you, Dawn French probably said that about Lenny Henry." The first is like AND ANOTHER THING, and the second is hang on, scratch that. I am wondering if it's a US/UK difference.
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