Got out of the boot today! Walking around in a complete pair of shoes! My achilles tendon is moving for the first time in a month and a half! Tendons are weird.
But more importantly, I found $20 in a parking lot today. It's not mine - what should I do with it? I'd send it to Home Alive with a note saying "Keep on kicking ass," but they closed last year, so I'm taking suggestions. Maybe this is something I should use facebook for - thank you for your patience.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
56. Weather, music, reading
I'd like to provide you with an update of recent goings-on in Missoula but I don't know anything about it, except that there are some potholes on the roads and everyone is angry. I haven't been up to much lately - I've been sidelined with a broken ankle, and you can't do much of anything when you're on crutches and it's snowy and icy outside.
For almost six weeks I have been the proprietor of a spiral fracture of the fibula. I was pretty lucky - no surgery, supposed to heal okay, on crutches for less than five weeks. I'm hobbling around in a walking boot now. Being able to carry things in your hands while you walk is terribly convenient. Bipedalism is the height of evolution.
When you're on crutches everyone's pretty nice to you. Last week I made a large batch of mint oatmeal chocolate chip cookies to give to people who were particularly nice and went out of their way to help me. It's depressing when your body fails you, and doubly depressing when the weather turns against you and makes going outside scary and nearly impossible, but when someone remembers to pick you up where the bus drops you off every morning to drive you a quarter mile to the building you work in... I mean, you know... it's pretty nice. Cookies don't come close to expressing it.
(For reference, it takes about 20 minutes to go about a quarter mile on crutches on ice. After exertion such as that, the crutch operator is sweaty and tired out, a state you don't want to be in at 7:55 in the morning.)
(If you want to improve upper-body and core strength, a few weeks on crutches will certainly help you out, although I'd recommend pursuing other workout options first.)
Luckily over time I've become more mobile, and luckily the snow and ice have started to wane, and luckily I live about a block away from some record stores, and so I've acquired a few inches of new records, and so I'm thinking about making a new mixtape.
I haven't made a mixtape in years, but I used to, every once in a while. A few years before a few years ago I made a mix of songs about rain and water and I sent those tapes to various people in various places around the world. A few years after that I gave all the students in one of my ESL classes a CD of songs about traveling - they clapped with enthusiasm and joy at first, but when I mentioned that there were many genres of songs on the CDs, including country, they made bad faces and barfing noises. A few months after that I tried to make a mix of moon songs, but I didn't follow through with the project and a rough draft is all that remains. (It is incredible and despite its rough state will likely be bootlegged by my heirs for generations.)
I haven't made a mixtape in years now but the topic has come up a couple times in the last couple months and I think maybe I will make a new one. I'll make one for you if you want, but you should know these things: it will be on cassette tape, and the music I'm interested in these days is easy listening and hip hop. If I make you one and you throw it out the window you cannot tell me.
I have another couple weeks of restricted activity, so this will be a good project, as I've had my fill of books and movies.
For almost six weeks I have been the proprietor of a spiral fracture of the fibula. I was pretty lucky - no surgery, supposed to heal okay, on crutches for less than five weeks. I'm hobbling around in a walking boot now. Being able to carry things in your hands while you walk is terribly convenient. Bipedalism is the height of evolution.
When you're on crutches everyone's pretty nice to you. Last week I made a large batch of mint oatmeal chocolate chip cookies to give to people who were particularly nice and went out of their way to help me. It's depressing when your body fails you, and doubly depressing when the weather turns against you and makes going outside scary and nearly impossible, but when someone remembers to pick you up where the bus drops you off every morning to drive you a quarter mile to the building you work in... I mean, you know... it's pretty nice. Cookies don't come close to expressing it.
(For reference, it takes about 20 minutes to go about a quarter mile on crutches on ice. After exertion such as that, the crutch operator is sweaty and tired out, a state you don't want to be in at 7:55 in the morning.)
(If you want to improve upper-body and core strength, a few weeks on crutches will certainly help you out, although I'd recommend pursuing other workout options first.)
Luckily over time I've become more mobile, and luckily the snow and ice have started to wane, and luckily I live about a block away from some record stores, and so I've acquired a few inches of new records, and so I'm thinking about making a new mixtape.
I haven't made a mixtape in years, but I used to, every once in a while. A few years before a few years ago I made a mix of songs about rain and water and I sent those tapes to various people in various places around the world. A few years after that I gave all the students in one of my ESL classes a CD of songs about traveling - they clapped with enthusiasm and joy at first, but when I mentioned that there were many genres of songs on the CDs, including country, they made bad faces and barfing noises. A few months after that I tried to make a mix of moon songs, but I didn't follow through with the project and a rough draft is all that remains. (It is incredible and despite its rough state will likely be bootlegged by my heirs for generations.)
I haven't made a mixtape in years now but the topic has come up a couple times in the last couple months and I think maybe I will make a new one. I'll make one for you if you want, but you should know these things: it will be on cassette tape, and the music I'm interested in these days is easy listening and hip hop. If I make you one and you throw it out the window you cannot tell me.
I have another couple weeks of restricted activity, so this will be a good project, as I've had my fill of books and movies.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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