I went to bed Monday night with an... irritation in my throat.  I don't remember it bothering me much yesterday morning, but by the middle of my second class yesterday, my throat was killing me.

And it's not my usual 'post-nasal-talking-too-much-kids-have-all-the-germs-in-ever' type of sore throat I get every winter.  No, this is like there's a ( Read more... )

So I schlepped many books today.  I have schlepped many heavier things in the last five years, but apparently schlepping books does Very Evil things to my bad shoulder.  And/or it's been five years since my last year-long bout of P.T and it's time to another one. (And god, I hate doing 6 - 8 months of 2 - 3 times a week P.T.  It's not like 'here ( Read more... )

• PERFECT "120 Review" at work.  Basically this is a review that ends in, "You're fine, keep going", "You're doing... okay, but we need to make a plan to work on some stuff" or "There's the door, don't let it hit you."  It's four pages long and you have to evaluate yourself... yadda.   I got the highest rating on EVERY METRIC on all four pages.  I  ( Read more... )

The Good News:  I didn't wake up in screaming pain in the middle of the night reaching for the pill bottle like I expected to be.  In fact I didn't take a pill at all for about 12 hours.

The Bad News: Now I'm trying to eat breakfast and I have gone for the pain pills.  I am taking itty bitty tiny bites on the other side of my mouth and still... I ( Read more... )

I have never in my life met a medical 'professional' (and I use that last term so very, very loosely) who had worse bedside manner.

So I had to have the broken tooth extracted.  This is not happy-making other than, well, at least it won't be hurting any more.  In fact, it was every single kind of anxiety-making for me.

This doctor could not have ( Read more... )

So that tooth that broke last month picked midnight last night to start giving me hell.  Of course.  So I got up, took one naproxin and got my one gel ice pack from the freezer and was able to fall back asleep.

Briefly.

Two hours later I woke up again, my jaw was screaming, my nearby naproxin bottle was empty and my ice pack was warm.

So I staggered ( Read more... )

Things I have today:

• A broken tooth.  An inexplicably broken tooth.  And just how the hell does that happen???  I woke up this morning and half of one of my molars was gone.  There was no pain when I *apparently* broke the damn thing and there's none when I eat or drink.  W.T.F?  However, it's minorly annoying, so now that I actually have insurance ( Read more... )

We are going to a completely new literacy model this year.  We had the OMG!INTENSE!Intro to it today.

Now, when I'm thinking and writing at the same time, I have a tendency to put my left elbow on the table and lean my head on it while I'm writing.

I wore the first... many... layers of skin off the point of my elbow today.

That's how long, and how ( Read more... )

I didn't get up to make breakfast until 9:00.  It's now almost ten and I feel no great need to get out of bed to get stuff done.  Oh, and I fell asleep around 9:00 last night.  That's kind of a stupid amount of sleep ( Read more... )

Well, the allergy attack from hell seems to be slowly abating.  I can mostly breath and my throat feels better.  So why I was up at 4 a.m. today I don't know.  But I didn't get back to sleep like I hoped I would.  Maybe I'll nap this afternoon.

I spent from about six until just now (a tad before 8) stalking the internet for new blue soap dye.  Doesn ( Read more... )